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Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:41 PM Mar 2013

two great things about the new pope

1) he's used to being completely ignored and humiliated by the civil authorities in his country!!!!
2) he seems to somewhat believe that the church should be serving the poor rather than lording it over them

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msongs

(67,193 posts)
1. being as the church is obscenely wealthy, will he sell the vatican art and use the funds to
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:43 PM
Mar 2013

do anything to help "poor" people?

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
4. He also helped the military junta of Argentina.
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 05:47 PM
Mar 2013

He's just another pope in the long string of right-wing ass-kissers.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
7. And if the poor don't CHOOSE birth control, they don't deserve help? If I find myself working on a
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 06:24 PM
Mar 2013

community service project, shoulder to shoulder, with someone who meets my personal criteria for being anti-fascist and, yet, whom I know is an advocate for CHOICE, even when that choice is to have a baby that I'd never bring into this world, what should I do?

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