Pope Picks Leader for Catholic Order
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 9, 2010
Filed at 7:56 a.m. ET
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named a senior Vatican official to run the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ after an eight-month investigation of the order.
Images: (Widmark) from KISS OF DEATH via blogs.e-rockford.com; (Pope) AP Photo(?) via lewandpolitics.com
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Image: (Haggard) getreligion.org; (kepi) maskworld.com; (motto) soldierandwar.com via cgi.ebay.es
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The Great Emancipator
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I read it at the online INDEPENDENT.
I believe that we should expect more from the Vatican Rag.
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These little numbers certainly have given mothers extra long-term independencefrom the responsibilities of having to watch their children.
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What about men?
Liberation comes in many forms.
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The Papal Brewery’s flag reflects this belief.
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The Vatican backs the excommunication of the mother
whose nine-year-old daughter was raped and of
the doctor who performed the subsequent abortion.
At least the pope didn’t say the girl was askin’ for it!
Here is a quick look at some of Benedict XVI’s other controversies.
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Benedict XVI is known to do anything to fill the Vatican’s […]
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Teen idol Frankie Avalon took himself out of consideration for pope after the death of Pius XII. The statement threw the College of Cardinals into a maelstrom which passed when Angelo Roncalli became John XXIII.
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Warner takes self out of VP mix
By BOB LEWIS, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 14, 6:55 PM ET
HAMPTON, Va. - Former […]
Causing 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 […]
Pope’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 […]
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(AP Photo/L’Osservatore Romano, HO)
Pope 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 […]