In 1960, Khrushchev oddly lacked red shoes.
Friday, April 18th, 2008*
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Image: (shoe) via inquirer.net
Archive for the 'Pope Benedict XVI' Category
Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, pezzo novante at the Vatican “Apostolic Penitentiary, announces new sins–as fresh as this morning’s headlines.
Monday, March 10th, 2008Causing environmental blight is a sin, but the Church certainly seemed to want the boy king and his more sinister compatriot in pollution for the top USA jobs.
I wonder if ‘Child Buggery by a Clergyman’ has dropped on the
Vatican’s Sin-O-Meter (sih-NAM-etter).
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Vatican lists “new sins,” including pollution
By Philip Pullella
Reuters
March 10, 2008
Thou shall not pollute […]
There is something odd about using an ancient, semi-secret ceremony to combat the rise of the occult.
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan
By NICK PISA
Last updated at 16:34pm on 29th December 2007
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Pope Benedict XVI during his Urbi et Orbi
This is the photograph used with the Daily Mail article.
I am not joking.
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Satanism on the rise: Pope Benedict has unveiled plans to set up specialist exorcism squads
The Pope has ordered […]
Papa Bends Rice
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Pope refuses to meet Rice: report
Wed Sep 19, 12:58 PM ET
ROME (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday.
Rice “made it known to the Vatican that she absolutely had to meet the pope” to boost her diplomatic […]
A question about Canon Law…
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Now that the Roman Catholic Church has 86′d Limbo as a place where non-baptized infants must spend eternity, can a practicing Catholic use the idiomatic expression–”I’m in Limbo about this.” Will the use of the idiom result in a mortal sin against the Pope’s Infallibility in matters of Faith and Morals?
Please see earlier concerns about […]
I’ve always liked Ms. Farrow and praise her courage, but…
Monday, August 6th, 2007should not the Pope or Jesse Jackson have tendered such a proposal?
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U.S. actress and UNICEF ambassador Mia Farrow attends a ceremony to receive the ‘Sevilla Nodo between cultures’ prize in Seville March 8, 2007. Farrow has offered her freedom in exchange for that of a respected Darfur rebel figure, virtually imprisoned for more than 13 […]
I think we know that, Fred.
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Sexual abuse not just a Catholic problem: Vatican
By Philip Pullella
Reuters
Tuesday, July 17, 2007; 8:06 AM
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Sexual abuse of children is not just a Catholic Church problem and other institutions should take steps to acknowledge and deal with such “wickedness” within their own ranks, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
The Vatican’s chief spokesman, Father […]
W: “My pal Bandar can get these for you wholesale.”
Saturday, June 9th, 2007President Bush meets with Pope Benedict XVI
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“It has a nice balance,” says the Pope when President Bush
presented him with a friendship gift–the Barret XM109 25 mm
sniper rifle.
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The pair discussed the pontiff’s deep worries that Christians in Iraq would not be embraced by the Muslim majority.
From the Associated Press
8:24 AM PDT, June 9, 2007
At […]
As far as it goes, Pope Benedict certainly has a point…
Sunday, May 13th, 2007but I wonder if this a little of the “pot/kettle” analogy. Has not the so-called “opiate of the masses” caused more deaths during the reign of humans than all the meth, smack and coke in the world?
Pope hears drug addicts’ tales, scolds traffickers
By Terry Wade and Philip Pullella Sat May 12, 12:39 PM ET
GUARATINGUETA, Brazil […]
Sao Paolo shows “The Two Faces of Joe”
Thursday, May 10th, 2007*
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A hour later, all is well as the pope correctly answers the multi-part question:
Who defeated Argentina Rocca for the World Wrestling Championship in1957?
Where was the bout and what final move insured the UNEXPECTED victory?
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BOBO BRAZIL
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BUENOS AIRES EVITADROME
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COCO BUTT
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Images: (outside) AP Photo/Andre Penner; (inside) AP Photo/ Victor R. Caivano; (score sign) […]