Tyler Durden, your presence is requested here.
Are you sure you linked to the right place? That’s a 4 year old thread where dopers talked about their doper names.
Quite sure. I was asking, in a roundabout way, why he chose the username. Sure, I know the guy from fight club, but I was hoping for an explination of why he chose that particular name.
AHEM returnong to the OP question…
In the media around here (Spanish) it has been translated in the plural. What we need is a site with the original-language quote (and someone well-versed enough in that language to make out any possible “between the lines” angle).
BTW, he could also be speaking in grand figurative manner to the entirety of the Church that preceded him, i.e. not necessarily God/Mary, but to the teachers and exemplars whom he had sought to emulate.
jrd
[now, back to the hijack already in progress:]
Recent rulings in the Church, if I understand correctly, are to the effect that you may decline “extraordinary measures” to stop imminent death, but that feeding/hydration even via tube is not “extraordinary”. In the case of JP2, there was also the small detail that he was NOT braindead. IMO the Pope makes the decision to stick with Home Care for the end-game partly out of concern that in a hospital environment, it could indeed lead to a level of intervention that would leave him as Vegi-Pope and THEN what a mess that would be.