#26
Posted: 2/11/13 at 12:58pm
Oh Jesus (no pun intended) that's the best laugh I've had today.
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#27
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:19pm
"Did he finally save enough for a place on Fire Island?"
Yeah, but only in the Grove.
Yeah, but only in the Grove.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#28
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:25pm
Any Catholic can be elected pope, so I think they should choose Rick Santorum.
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#30
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:33pm
I read somewhere that it is widely rumored he has Parkinson's. All the same, as a Catholic, this news is surprising to me. And there's a part of me that's amused that there are betting pools on who will succeed him. I keep hearing Cardinal Peter Turkson's name tossed about:
NYDN Article on Peter Turkson
NYDN Article on Peter Turkson
#31
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:34pm
Namo, you are cracking me up!
I needed a good laugh or two today.
I needed a good laugh or two today.
....but the world goes 'round
#32
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:12pm
#33
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:15pm
Rumor has it he had been lip synching his last few services.
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
#34
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:19pm
As long as it wasnt a nip slip.
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#35
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:32pm
This thread is providing me some much needed laughs to ease over my frustrations over a damned Excel spreadsheet I'm tangling with at the moment. (=COUNTIF,"*F*CKYOUEXCEL*")
#36
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:34pm
PRAISE BEYSUS!!
You think, what do you want?
You think, make a decision...
#37
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:53pm
Excel was created by the devil. Kind of appropriate .
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
#38
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:56pm
"I'm not buying the "health reasons" either. I'm remembering John Paul II being wheeled around when he was clearly just not there."
Exactly the point. Ratzinger was there and saw it all and, being the private person he is, he doesn't want the whole world watching his decline like they did with JPII. BXVI is older now than JPII was when he died.
Exactly the point. Ratzinger was there and saw it all and, being the private person he is, he doesn't want the whole world watching his decline like they did with JPII. BXVI is older now than JPII was when he died.
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#39
Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:19pm
Technology has just been letting Carlos down lately
#41
Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:30pm
Maybe they shouldn't make "private" people the Pope. Not to mention ex-kinder-Nazis.
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#42
Posted: 2/11/13 at 4:11pm
"Maybe they shouldn't make "private" people the Pope."
Perhaps not. Which is one of the reasons he wasn't particularly effective in his role. He was more of a "chief of staff" than a "president". Good at organizing behind the scenes but not so good with TV cameras. And it was no secret that he was elected as a "caretaker Pope," just filling in for a few years until a younger, more charismatic pope was elected.
Perhaps not. Which is one of the reasons he wasn't particularly effective in his role. He was more of a "chief of staff" than a "president". Good at organizing behind the scenes but not so good with TV cameras. And it was no secret that he was elected as a "caretaker Pope," just filling in for a few years until a younger, more charismatic pope was elected.
#43
Posted: 2/11/13 at 4:13pm
^ Maybe one who's a little more strict about the whole child rape thing.
#45
Posted: 2/11/13 at 4:53pm
Don't eeeven get me started!
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#46
Posted: 2/11/13 at 5:36pm
HBO is currently showing "on demand" a documentary called MEA MAXIMA CULPA (IIRC). It charts the molestation of many, many boys at a Midwest school for the deaf and then traces what happened (or rather, didn't) all the way up the channels to Ratzinger.
I'm not saying this is the reason for the Pope's retirement, just that the documentary is riveting and horrifying.
I'm not saying this is the reason for the Pope's retirement, just that the documentary is riveting and horrifying.
#47
Posted: 2/11/13 at 11:00pm
Oh, Sinead...
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#48
Posted: 2/11/13 at 11:25pm
I'll throw a different voice into this conversation: I think it was the right and noble thing to do.
We don't know what his health issues are, but, being in a position of power and voluntarily stepping aside is unheard of in these times. He is opening up a path for new leadership.
I don't condone the cover-ups and criminal mismanagement of the abuse scandal. The leadership of the Church needs to be held accountable.
I simply feel a level of compassion for a man who is going to live out the rest of his life in quiet prayer.
I think watching this historic process unfold is going to be fascinating.
We don't know what his health issues are, but, being in a position of power and voluntarily stepping aside is unheard of in these times. He is opening up a path for new leadership.
I don't condone the cover-ups and criminal mismanagement of the abuse scandal. The leadership of the Church needs to be held accountable.
I simply feel a level of compassion for a man who is going to live out the rest of his life in quiet prayer.
I think watching this historic process unfold is going to be fascinating.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
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#50
Posted: 2/11/13 at 11:48pm
Well his quiet prayers should be begging God not to send him to the lowest depths of hell where he deserves to be fvcked with a barbed wire dildo non stop for eternity.
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