{"id":4151,"date":"2007-01-23T17:36:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T22:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/01\/23\/the-pope-and-books\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T22:36:35","slug":"the-pope-and-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/01\/the-pope-and-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope and Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carl Olson of Ignatius Insight posted a story<\/a> on the last Pope John Paul II sneaking out for skip trips during his years at the Vatican. Carl in his last line said.<\/p>\n

Hilarious! No word yet if Pope Benedict is also covertly sneaking out of the Vatican, not to ski but to visit used bookstores.<\/p>\n

Now that really made me laugh and I can really imagine our book loving Pope going out on the sly perusing shelves for more books to get. I remember reading one quote from the pope when he was talking about the impermanence of things. Mountains will pass away and at one point he said, I believe, "even books" will pass away. I laugh when I read that also since it was so indicative of the Pope’s personality and his love of books. The Pope’s endears me to him even more.<\/p>\n

Now I consider myself a bibliophile, though not as well read as the Pope or many members of St. Blogs. I also read a lot of books where their copyright has expired and their text is available on the internet. Mostly I convert them using text-to-speech software to listen to on my iPod\/computer. Though sometimes I am disappointed to find that a book is not quite old enough yet to be freely available. I once fantasized about wanting a time machine so that I could go into the future passed the expiration of their copyright – downloading them – and returning home. Though I am not quite sure about all the moral ramifications of this. Is a book downloaded in the future and then subsequently read in the present a violation of copyright?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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