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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 12:29 PM
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Hitchens: Pope Benedict wants ‘wiggle room’ for ‘rape and torture of children’
By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 -- 11:56 am

The Catholic Church is in serious trouble and may have nowhere to run, depending on who you ask.

"I warned them about all of this," declared author Christopher Hitchens, appearing on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night. "Nothing good can come of a church that has as its' slogan, 'Leave no child's behind.' And then they went and chose as pope the man who was personally responsible, in his dioceses, and institutionally responsible for the cover-up. So now, there's no escape."

The child rape scandals that have savaged Catholic ranks for years starting in the United States, then flaring up in Ireland, Germany, Italy and other locations around the world, have finally come to implicate Pope Benedict XVI, according to recent reports.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 12:35 PM
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1. Well, that's a classique republicon strategery for sure
Edited on Sat Mar-27-10 12:36 PM by SpiralHawk
wide stance hypocritical wiggle room on the sexual depravity and all...

Pope Ratzinger definitely got Republicon Family Values
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 12:47 PM
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2. link? n/t
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