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DaveinJapan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 04:22 AM
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Pope (then Cardinal) chides, slaps reporter
This guy is one nasty piece of work (I'm wondering if the question posed had to do with child abuse).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhEUwxadh7U&feature=related
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 04:52 AM
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1. It was a question about child abuse
"Ratzinger went as far as to slap the wrist of a reporter who dared to ask him about the Maciel investigations. 'One can't put on trial such a close friend of the Pope as Marcial Maciel,' Ratzinger said on another occasion."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/apr/24/children.childprotection1
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 05:50 AM
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3. Amazing how putting on a robe and collar suddenly confers divinity
on a human being, isn't it? You just aren't subject to the laws of men any more. Religious leaders have gotten away with this for centuries. Time to expose the clay feet of the idol.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 06:13 AM
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4. Is the little loop on his beanie for us to hang him from a Christmas tree?
:nod to your subject line:
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:12 AM
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7. No, but you can hang Benedict on your tree:
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:16 AM
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8. Slaps on the wrist are his forte
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DaveinJapan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:24 AM
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9. +1000000000000000
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olegramps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:28 AM
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13. John Paul II will be proclaimed as the Patron Saint of Pedophiles for his protection of Maciel.
He absolutely protected Marcial Maciel who was a notorious sexual abusers of both young boys and girls. He was such a nasty vicious bastard that Ratzinger had to remove him as head of the Legions of Christ and forbid him from performing any public rites. John Paul's enabling of this bastard of bastards has not gained the publicity that it is warranted. People have to wakeup to the fact that the Catholic Church is rotten to its very core and is led by psychotic misfits. How damn sick is it that John Paul II beat himself daily with a whip? It is totally beyond my comprehension why people would continue to be members of such a dysfunctional shit hole.
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 05:01 AM
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2. He IS nasty....

I hope he is charged with crimes and rots in hell for his role in all this horror.

I also wish people would quit donating to the Catholic Church; continue your faith, but donate directly to a local food bank or shelter instead of giving to such a corrupt organization, until -- or if -- they admit fault and start to heal from within.

:puke:

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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 06:35 AM
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5. You'd never guess that just looking at him.
...oh, wait.
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DaveinJapan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 07:22 AM
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6. I know, right?
Watching this video a few times, I noticed how testy he really was (and how quickly he escalated).

As a Catholic by birth, I knew some Priests like him. Always hated them.

Some Priests were kind, and approachable. Others were just like this (and that smack on the hand reminded me of what I thought I might receive from those like Ratzinger, every time I encountered them...pretty sure he's got some experience with the quick smack just like his brother obviously did!).

Ugh.

I just hate human beings like these! Sanctimonious pricks.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:26 AM
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10. Opus Dei
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DaveinJapan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 08:40 AM
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11. Is he actually a confirmed member? I've heard rumors but haven't seen any backup yet. nt
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Gin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 09:42 AM
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12. he is treated like a god...but the commandments say don't have false
gods before me...so....Catholics who find him above human law are breaking their own commandment (IMO)
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olegramps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 10:33 AM
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14. you can thank John Paul II for that god forsaken misogynistic hell hole.
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