This is Father Joseph Anthony Cress and this is Father Bonaventure Chapman.

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Brother Bonaventure, the Backbenchers are back.

You know, we're united.

We're united again.

But as we are near the feast day of St. John Paul the second, we

want to take this opportunity to actually reflect on this great saint.

Somebody who has I think been very important for both of us in unique ways and we find this quite

often through so many Catholics that he has had a major influence but it's always

unique it's always slightly different.

And so I think on this episode, we want to take that time

to talk about our own kind of devotion and appreciation of St. John Paul

the second, while at the same time starting to see his lasting

influence and impact on him. So you know your own faith has its own journey and

things like that which definitely has included St. John Paul the second, but like what role does he play in your life in that way?

You know it's funny because when I became a Catholic after he had died not far after it's 2007.

I'm not to talk about that but the so and I always consider myself a B16 Catholic as opposed to a JP2 Catholic.

Most of the Catholics around are J.P. 2 Catholics and maybe that's how you describe yourself growing up

as a J.P. too Catholic.

And I was B 16 Catholic because I came in as a Protestant and Benedict was the one I read all of his things for shape liturgy and

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