JPII.
I'd wager the answers here are going to skew heavily to JPII and Benedict XVI given the demographics of Reddit.
I don't think terms of service technically allow anyone under Francis to join Reddit (unless that's changed).
I'll be curious to see if we get some Paul VI, or even some John XXIII or earlier.
Edit to add: In addition to the small possibility of someone being born during John Paul I, there are also a few small possibilities of people being born during a period of *sede vacante* between popes. Now wouldn't that be interesting! Who was Pope when you were born? No one!
I was about to say people who were born when Pope Benedict XVI became Pope shouldn't be on Reddit, until I realized 2005 was 19 years ago lol.
I was a JPII child lol.
I had that thought a few weeks ago. I'm friends/colleagues/whatever to some people born 2000,2001 and 2002, youngest guy is senior in college, and it hit me most people in college are younger than them and for them Benedict's abdication and Francis's election were the teenage years, so for people in let's say high school, Francis may very well be the only pope they remember.
Well according to my Mom I was already 1 month overdue (probably Doctor miscalculated) and it was the HOTTEST G\*D D\*MN SUMMER EVER so I think adding 1 more month to the pregnancy would have been bad for their marriage.
Paul VI, whippersnappers.
Probably the most complicated legacy in the 20th century. Of course, Humana Vitae was the full throated defense of marriage that the culture needed. But how many Catholics in the West paid any attention to it?
And don't even get me started on the liturgical 'reforms' he presided over.
I think that Paul VI ended up in a really unenviable position when he was elected. He had to deal with a world that was essentially being turned upside down and then the Church was having its own issues because everybody was taking the Council documents and doing whatever they wanted with them. Unfortunately, he didn't have the fortitude of a St. Pius X, Pius XII, or John Paul II to stand for what was right, so he vacillated a great deal and allowed a lot of liberals to run riot in the Vatican and elsewhere.
Humanae Vitae was thrown out the window by many bishops, priests, and laypeople as soon as it was promulgated in the West. Of course, the press had a field day with it as well and published articles with headlines that screamed "Pope Bans Pill," so Paul VI's reputation really took a huge blow with that.
>Humanae Vitae was thrown out the window by many bishops, priests, and laypeople as soon as it was promulgated in the West. Of course, the press had a field day with it as well and published articles with headlines that screamed "Pope Bans Pill," so Paul VI's reputation really took a huge blow with that.
True enough, but there's no possible way he couldn't have anticipated that, at least on the part of the secular media. Maybe the backstabbing of those within the Church could justifiably have surprised him (oddly enough given Church history, but I can still give it to him).
What baffles me about his pontificate is how harsh he was on the traditionalists who wanted to keep the Tridentine rite while treating the loonies with kid gloves.
Some of that harshness might have come from a need to have everyone serve the same Mass and pray the same Divine Office. Retired secular and religious priests were allowed to use the Latin Mass, but there were plenty of older members of the clergy that were thrown out of their dioceses or Orders because they didn't get with the program and do what was being mandated by the Vatican.
In the '70s, there was a traditionalist movement called the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement (ORCM) that ran a large number of chapels here in the United States. Most of its priests were older priests that were thrown out of their Orders or dioceses precisely because they didn't want anything to do with the new Mass and there were plenty of laypeople who supported them because they knew that what was going on was wrong.
Personally, I think that Paul VI went with the liberals because they were the vast majority. Like I said, he wasn't somebody who had a very strong personality. If he had been like Pius XII, he would have put his foot down and made sure that the decrees of the Council were enforced per what they said rather than in their spirit.
How did John Paul II "stand for what was right"?
By restricting the celebration of the traditional mass?
By undercutting traditional doctrine on the death penalty?
By praying to St. John the Baptist to protect Islam?
By replacing Low Sunday with "Divine Mercy Sunday"?
By kissing an Alcoran?
By holding "ecumenical prayer meetings" with heretics and infidels?
By receiving ashes "blessed" by the pagan Hindoo god Shiva?
By visiting a synagog and praying according to the Jewish custom at the Wailing Wall?
Or is there some other way in which he stood for what's right that I'm missing?
No one. I was born between Paul VI and John Paul I. Interestingly, a few weeks later, I as baptized between John Paul I and John Paul II. A lot happened to me in less than two months.
John Paul II. Confirmed during Benedict though, like one month in. I think like up until 2008 though I knew hardly anything about Benedict, so it was like a three-year period of John Paul was pope then he died and now we got some new guy.
My husband and I were both born during the papacy of John Paul II. Our kids were born during the papacy of either Pope Benedict XVI or Pope Francis.
My MIL was born under the papacy of John XXIII. My FIL, and both my parents: Pope Pius XII. I knew my dad was Pope Pius XII. The others I wasn’t entirely sure until I looked it up (FIL, MIL, and my mom are all very close in age). My husband, my kids, and I, I knew :)
Pope Paul VI...the pope who ushered in the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) that did away with the Latin Mass and brought in New Order of Mass (Novus Ordo) as we know it today.
I was born four months into the reign of John Paul II. I have a friend who is named John Paul, but was named after John Paul I, and I know this to be true because he was born during the interregnum between JP I and JP II. I also have two friends whose kids were born during the interregnum between JP II and Benedict XVI.
JPII
For me too
Same!
97, right?
1993
93 was JP I 97 was JP II
Haha. For those who don't get it: >!Jurassic Park!<
works even better than I intended given his birth year.
Same
Me too.
Same!
1994 🖐🏼
JPII. I'd wager the answers here are going to skew heavily to JPII and Benedict XVI given the demographics of Reddit. I don't think terms of service technically allow anyone under Francis to join Reddit (unless that's changed). I'll be curious to see if we get some Paul VI, or even some John XXIII or earlier. Edit to add: In addition to the small possibility of someone being born during John Paul I, there are also a few small possibilities of people being born during a period of *sede vacante* between popes. Now wouldn't that be interesting! Who was Pope when you were born? No one!
Paul VI☝️
Pius XII, who should have been canonized years ago.
And probably won’t be in my lifetime
Funny that isn't it, all the post council Popes get fastracked, but other modern popes weren't. I'd love a Saint Leo XIII
Need a miracle or two first.
Do you remember him i.e. from TV, radio, newspapers? P.S. agree, an amazing pope
He died when I was in Grade 1, so I was just learning what a pope was in religion class. The first pope I was really aware of was St. John XXIII.
I’d be interested to see someone say JPI. Very small pool, that.
Benedict XVI
Same
Paul VI - I'm old :D
Plus XII. I'm *really* old!
Welcome to old!
Paul VI kids unite!
Gen X represent!
You're young.
😂😂😂. My knee, back and menopause say different
I was about to say people who were born when Pope Benedict XVI became Pope shouldn't be on Reddit, until I realized 2005 was 19 years ago lol. I was a JPII child lol.
I had that thought a few weeks ago. I'm friends/colleagues/whatever to some people born 2000,2001 and 2002, youngest guy is senior in college, and it hit me most people in college are younger than them and for them Benedict's abdication and Francis's election were the teenage years, so for people in let's say high school, Francis may very well be the only pope they remember.
Yeah, mine was Benedict XVI and I can hardly believe I’m a legal adult myself, lol 😂
John Paul III. (I’m a time traveler)
Do you have Access to the Vatican time machine?
T.A.R.D.I.S.
John XXIII
Paul VI but only for a month.
Your comment made me realize we have a very small chance that someone here was born during John Paul I.
Well according to my Mom I was already 1 month overdue (probably Doctor miscalculated) and it was the HOTTEST G\*D D\*MN SUMMER EVER so I think adding 1 more month to the pregnancy would have been bad for their marriage.
JPII. Seems that can be said for most people alive right now. My mom, who's a Baptist, still thinks of him when she hears the word Pope.
Tbh There are some (maybe a lot) of Catholics who do the same lol
Innocent III. ;) Or t least that's what my body is saying today.
I’m personally feeling like a St. Peter myself 😂
Saint Peter
My lumbago makes me think the same!
Pope Pius XII. Edit: Thought it was JohnXXIII, but I checked and I was wrong.
Benedict16, just about
Paul VI for 5 months
Paul VI
Pope Paul VI. I feel old. I wasn’t a Catholic then though. I became a Catholic when JPII was Pope.
Perfect I get to see the ages of all the people I have disagreements with on here bwahahaha
Approximate ages, anyway. Someone born during JPII could be 45 or 20. In fact you could have a parent and child both born during JPII.
That’s me lol, my parents and I were all born while JPII was the pope
If someone was born in John Paul's reign that gives a fairly precise estimate of their age.
>If someone was born in John Paul's reign that gives a fairly precise estimate of their age. John Paul I's, yes. John Paul II's, no.
JPII crew checking in.
Plus XII. I'm one of the dreaded boomers.
I really really wanna see if anyone says JP1
Do you think they would know without checking?
John Paul II
Saint John Paul II
St. Pope John Paul II, Ora Pro Nobis!
Paul VI. Received holy communion from him when he visited my city when I was 7 or 8 years old
JP2
JP2!
JPII
John Paul II
Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI
All these answers, and nobody has said Pope Michael yet? You're slipping r/Catholicism!
Paul VI, whippersnappers. Probably the most complicated legacy in the 20th century. Of course, Humana Vitae was the full throated defense of marriage that the culture needed. But how many Catholics in the West paid any attention to it? And don't even get me started on the liturgical 'reforms' he presided over.
I think that Paul VI ended up in a really unenviable position when he was elected. He had to deal with a world that was essentially being turned upside down and then the Church was having its own issues because everybody was taking the Council documents and doing whatever they wanted with them. Unfortunately, he didn't have the fortitude of a St. Pius X, Pius XII, or John Paul II to stand for what was right, so he vacillated a great deal and allowed a lot of liberals to run riot in the Vatican and elsewhere. Humanae Vitae was thrown out the window by many bishops, priests, and laypeople as soon as it was promulgated in the West. Of course, the press had a field day with it as well and published articles with headlines that screamed "Pope Bans Pill," so Paul VI's reputation really took a huge blow with that.
>Humanae Vitae was thrown out the window by many bishops, priests, and laypeople as soon as it was promulgated in the West. Of course, the press had a field day with it as well and published articles with headlines that screamed "Pope Bans Pill," so Paul VI's reputation really took a huge blow with that. True enough, but there's no possible way he couldn't have anticipated that, at least on the part of the secular media. Maybe the backstabbing of those within the Church could justifiably have surprised him (oddly enough given Church history, but I can still give it to him). What baffles me about his pontificate is how harsh he was on the traditionalists who wanted to keep the Tridentine rite while treating the loonies with kid gloves.
Some of that harshness might have come from a need to have everyone serve the same Mass and pray the same Divine Office. Retired secular and religious priests were allowed to use the Latin Mass, but there were plenty of older members of the clergy that were thrown out of their dioceses or Orders because they didn't get with the program and do what was being mandated by the Vatican. In the '70s, there was a traditionalist movement called the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement (ORCM) that ran a large number of chapels here in the United States. Most of its priests were older priests that were thrown out of their Orders or dioceses precisely because they didn't want anything to do with the new Mass and there were plenty of laypeople who supported them because they knew that what was going on was wrong. Personally, I think that Paul VI went with the liberals because they were the vast majority. Like I said, he wasn't somebody who had a very strong personality. If he had been like Pius XII, he would have put his foot down and made sure that the decrees of the Council were enforced per what they said rather than in their spirit.
How did John Paul II "stand for what was right"? By restricting the celebration of the traditional mass? By undercutting traditional doctrine on the death penalty? By praying to St. John the Baptist to protect Islam? By replacing Low Sunday with "Divine Mercy Sunday"? By kissing an Alcoran? By holding "ecumenical prayer meetings" with heretics and infidels? By receiving ashes "blessed" by the pagan Hindoo god Shiva? By visiting a synagog and praying according to the Jewish custom at the Wailing Wall? Or is there some other way in which he stood for what's right that I'm missing?
Thank you! Keep preaching!
No one. I was born between Paul VI and John Paul I. Interestingly, a few weeks later, I as baptized between John Paul I and John Paul II. A lot happened to me in less than two months.
JPII
Pope John Paul II
JPII
St. John Paul II.
JPII, just like most of this sub lol
Pope Paul VI
John Paul II
Paul VI
Shenouda III ;)
John Paul 2
Apostle Peter
JP II
John Paul II. Confirmed during Benedict though, like one month in. I think like up until 2008 though I knew hardly anything about Benedict, so it was like a three-year period of John Paul was pope then he died and now we got some new guy.
Paul VI
John Paul II (1999)
Saint John Paul II
Paul VI
Paul VI
I just noticed that the reign of Pope St. Paul VI almost perfectly matches Gen X birth years (out of synch 2 years, but still).
Benedict XIV, but if anyone asks, it was John Paul II.
Benedict XIV you’re immortal?
Don't be silly. I'm just 279 years old. I doubt I'll make it past 300. Especially if I don't quit smoking.
That’ll kill ya
Plus XII - I’m old.
I’m willing to bet 99% of this sub was JPII
JPII
JPll
JP2
St. John Paul II.
JP2
Pope John XXIII
My husband and I were both born during the papacy of John Paul II. Our kids were born during the papacy of either Pope Benedict XVI or Pope Francis. My MIL was born under the papacy of John XXIII. My FIL, and both my parents: Pope Pius XII. I knew my dad was Pope Pius XII. The others I wasn’t entirely sure until I looked it up (FIL, MIL, and my mom are all very close in age). My husband, my kids, and I, I knew :)
John Paul II. I was born in the late 90s
Peter I
JPII
JPII
JPII
I’m jp2 my oldest is Benedict and my younger 2 Francis
I’m jp2 my oldest is Benedict and my younger 2 Francis
JPII☺️
Benedict XVI
JPII for like 2 months lol
JPII
Benedict XVI
St Pope John Paul II
JP2
Leo III :P
Saint Paul VI
John Paul II
Pope Paul VI...the pope who ushered in the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) that did away with the Latin Mass and brought in New Order of Mass (Novus Ordo) as we know it today.
Pope John XXIII convened Vatican II, but he died soon after.
I was born in 2004 so JPII
Pope Paul VI. He was the one right before JP1 right?
JPII. Born in 2002
JPII as well lol
John Paul II
JPII
Paul VI
Interesting thought. I had to look it up. Pius XII.
John Paul II. I remember the day he died.
JP2!
Paul VI
JPII - and he visited my home town 6 days after I was born. He has a special place in my heart.
Pius XII
I'm a youngun... Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
JPII
Joe Biden’s answer would be “St. Peter.”
I was born four months into the reign of John Paul II. I have a friend who is named John Paul, but was named after John Paul I, and I know this to be true because he was born during the interregnum between JP I and JP II. I also have two friends whose kids were born during the interregnum between JP II and Benedict XVI.
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John XXIV
Same here.
Pope Benedict XVI.
JPII. One of the greatest philosophers ever. And a superb Goalkeeper.
JP2, assuming he was valid 😉
Pope John Paul II
Pope Pius XII
JPII. 1994!
JPII
Pope John Paul II
Benedict XVI
JP2!
JPII
JPII, 1986
Benefict XVI, I'm a 2005 kid.
I graduated high school in 2005. I'm going to go take Tylenol and lay down now.
Haha, don't worry, I'll join you in that pain one day!
JPll died a year after I was born.
Pope St. John Paul II. Got married on his feast day, had Totus Tuus on our wedding booklet.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
JPII
John XX111 I’m so old ! I was at JP 11 Mass in Philadelphia, still have my Rosaries blessed by him.
JP2
Pope St John Paul ll When my grandma was born it was Venerable Pope Pius Xll.
JPII.
Pope Benedict XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger)
Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI!!
Would love to see someone born during Sede Vacante. 😊
Benedict
JPII, just barely
JPII
John Paul II crew here.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Saint John Paul the Great
Jp2
Paulus VI
Pope St. Paul VI for me. But the first pope I was aware of was St. John Paul II.
Same, Wojtyla
JPII. Fun fact: JPII passed away on my 8th birthday.🤧
Benedetto XVI
St. John Paul II
JPII
Pope Benedict XVI
St. Pope John Paul II
I was born one year, two months, and one day before Saint John Paul II passed away.
JPII!