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MellowDem

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32. I'm sure Pope Francis will amend this injustice immediatly...

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Original post)

Wed Apr 24, 2013, 03:59 PM

Apr 2013

and also kick out all the child raping priests and those who enabled them. I mean, he did wash the feet of women.

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Catholic Church Expels Priest for Endorsing Same-Sex Marriage [View all] Humanist_Activist Apr 2013 OP

Very. LostOne4Ever Apr 2013 #1

It's more than that. rug Apr 2013 #2

Still LostOne4Ever Apr 2013 #37

catholic church keeps loves some pedophilia sigmasix Apr 2013 #3

I there anything about pedophilia in this story? rug Apr 2013 #5

The contradiction is so apparent to anyone reading this edhopper Apr 2013 #7

If anything, the contrast is to same sex marriage, not pedophilia. rug Apr 2013 #8

You just refuse to see edhopper Apr 2013 #12

I see quite clearly. rug Apr 2013 #15

Yet everyone here sees the edhopper Apr 2013 #18

How clairvoyant of you. rug Apr 2013 #19

I simple have to read edhopper Apr 2013 #20

Sure you do. rug Apr 2013 #21

There are none so blind... edhopper Apr 2013 #22

. . . . as those enraged on cue. rug Apr 2013 #23

So can edhopper Apr 2013 #24

The only thing I find enraging is persitsent stupidity. rug Apr 2013 #25

There is stupidity edhopper Apr 2013 #26

And then there is willful stupidity. rug Apr 2013 #27

And some people see no connection with edhopper Apr 2013 #28

And some people see priest pedophilia on goldfish crackers. rug Apr 2013 #30

Well edhopper Apr 2013 #31

Cheer up. rug Apr 2013 #36

Why aren't kiddie-fiddling priests expelled? backscatter712 Apr 2013 #10

Many have. rug Apr 2013 #16

Sure it does. It illustrates a gross double-standard in the RCC. n/t backscatter712 Apr 2013 #35

Rape some kids? Let's just relocate you to a new parish. trotsky Apr 2013 #4

See #3. rug Apr 2013 #6

Be the person that protected the child rapists? Goblinmonger Apr 2013 #17

How they continue to get the flock to keep funding all this bullshit is amazing. trotsky Apr 2013 #39

Excommunicated for endorsing same-sex marriage, protected for kiddie-fiddling. backscatter712 Apr 2013 #9

It looks mean spirited. The Church lost the vote and it looks like it is lashing out at those who hrmjustin Apr 2013 #11

They certainly did ask themselves why they did this. They did this to protect the essentially dimbear Apr 2013 #34

The Catholic Church doesn't want you if you support marriage equality. LuvNewcastle Apr 2013 #13

I'm convinced the RCC will only change its ways when it faces having a congregation of two. n/t backscatter712 Apr 2013 #14

yep just the pope and.. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #33

Civil Divorce and Remarriage HockeyMom Apr 2013 #29

I'm sure Pope Francis will amend this injustice immediatly... MellowDem Apr 2013 #32

I will say he's pretty good at photo-ops and superficial charm. backscatter712 Apr 2013 #38

That is there business... rexcat Apr 2013 #40