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Happy Easter!

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

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Pope: ‘Nothing positive’ from Iraq
By FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
VATICAN CITY - In an Easter litany of the world’s suffering,
Pope Benedict XVI lamented that “nothing positive” is happening in
Iraq and decried the unrest in Afghanistan and bloodshed in Africa and Asia.
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The reviewing stand seems a might crowded, but Mikoyan and Gromyko know how to make themselves invisible.

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

“Pope: Christian divisions a ’scandal’
By BRIAN MURPHY, AP Religion Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago
ISTANBUL, Turkey -
Pope Benedict XVI called divisions among Christians a “scandal to the world” at a joint ceremony Thursday with the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Christian church, which split from Catholicism nearly 1,000 years ago.”
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Pope Benedict XVI, left, and Ecumenical […]

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Guys, this is not how to be invited to join that country club of which you’ve wanted to be a member.

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Today, a London Times story reports that an Iraqi Al-Qaeda organization is considering a jihad to massacre Christians in response to Benedict XVI’s quote of a 14th century emperor’s belief that Islam may have had a violent side.
May I say this entire sad affair from Pope to Muslim to Right-wing Christian to Scientologist is why […]

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This is beginning to sound like the weigh-in for a Heavyweight Title fight with Fox-News vs. Aljazeera providing the coverage.

Friday, September 15th, 2006

A pal in Chicago stated  Pope Benedict did not seem to be a person who would say something without fore-thought. Still, I would have expected the Pontiff to pull a Billy Bats from GOODFELLAS when after a brief calm settled over a very tense confrontation with Joe Pesci’s ‘Tommy,’ Billy Bats had to turn the […]

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Pope Benedict XVI is deep-sixing the Vatican Christmas Pop concerts initiated by Pope John Paul Revere & Radiance.

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Requiescat in Pacem

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Pope Benedict visited Manoppello to see Saint Veronica’s veil.

Friday, September 1st, 2006

If this indeed is the imprint of the face of Jesus, all of those MGM epics were wrong.
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There is something eerily reminiscent of one of my favorite comic, character actors and I am certain no one would have mistaken Franklin Pangborn for the Son of God.
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From early childhood, Veronica had been one of my heroes […]

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