Pope Benny XVI

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Danzig

well, yeah, when you put it that way.....

it's funny, we're supposed to be progressing-yet we're really not! i wonder how many cardinals are now wondering just what in the world they were thinking tho...

Well, I often relate the teachings of the main religions to Plato's Cave, the following is a narration from Plato's Republic...man "knows" only that which he is taught and experienced in his reality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux4mcnFC_-c

John Paul II would not at all have been happy with this.
Think he would have slapped the rat man upside his big pope hat with his own septor. The Catholic Church just lost a few more members.

But this is not a popularity contest... they say when the rat man is sitting alone in the Vatican. A huge step backwards for the Catholic Church imo.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by pgardn

John Paul II would not at all have been happy with this.
Think he would have slapped the rat man upside his big pope hat with his own septor. The Catholic Church just lost a few more members.

But this is not a popularity contest... they say when the rat man is sitting alone in the Vatican. A huge step backwards for the Catholic Church imo.

i agree. i've heard of putting a foot in your mouth, but apparently he is ambidextrous, as he now has both in there.