So, they picked a new Pope o'Rome. Gee, another in the long line of child-abusing pedophile supporters to shelter his "true faith" from accountability. Read a quote, thought it seemed as though it applied to another religious fanatic across the pond:
...He said the new pope had long been mischaracterized as an out-of-touch, inflexible ideologue, when in person he had shown himself to be "relaxed and very warmhearted."
So, Bunnypants has a soulmate. How touching. Too bad he's the "wrong" religion.
I'm guessing that the college o'cardinals needed to make a quick decision so they could all head off to warmer climes on the churches' buck and piss and moan about how collections are down. Hey, yo...Cardinal Shit-for-brains, sell a Michaelangelo or something. Not like you'd actually miss it yo, there's probably dozens seized by church officials from the houses of "blasphemers" and such all over Europe during the churches 2000 year reign of terror...first "infidels/blasphemers/non-believers" then kids. What a swell bunch of guys.
It's a good thing my hairy thunderer can beat up their hairy thunderer. Nah Nah.
Update: Oh, and if it was not already evident that I disliked this guy, here's another reason:
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the
Vatican theologian who was elected Pope Benedict XVI, intervened in the 2004 US election campaign ordering bishops to deny communion to abortion rights supporters including presidential candidate
John Kerry.
In a June 2004 letter to US bishops enunciating principles of worthiness for communion recipients, Ratzinger specified that strong and open supporters of abortion should be denied the Catholic sacrament, for being guilty of a "grave sin."
He specifically mentioned "the case of a Catholic politician consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws," a reference widely understood to mean Democratic candidate Kerry, a Catholic who has defended abortion rights.
The letter said a priest confronted with such a person seeking communion "must refuse to distribute it."
What was it once, Cardinal Ratfuck? Now it's Benedict bring me XVI altar boys...or something.
posted by Jo Fish on 04.19.05 at 11:24 PM
Comments:
Wait... listen to that sound -
The sound you hear is sensible Catholics leaving the church in droves.
My wife asked me last night how my Dad would react. I said well, I'll call him and refer to his Hitler youth, and Luthwaffe involvement - then spend a few minutes on the memo which he wrote denouncing political candidates who supported abortion (John Kerry) last year during the presidential campaign. Dad, being a Marine - has quite a bit of sense left. I'll let you know what he says.
The rest of my side of the family left the church years ago. I asked my aunts and cousins what took them so long to come to their senses.
After all, how and what you practice for your belief is your decision, isn't it? I've viewed guilt and shame as nothing more than social control mechanisms for many years now.
Who promotes the mass use of those?
That one is loaded, folks. If you can't figure it out on your own, well....
posted by: Barndog on 04.20.05 at 04:37 AM [permalink]
IF a nonbeleiver is one who no longer believes in life after death, then the Vatican has just as many nonbelievers there as there are former popes buried there...
