Pope: Life without sin does not mean life without fun

[emad]

NICK PISA
IN ROME


BEING good does not mean missing out on a good time or that you are boring, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday insisted.

The Pontiff sought to reassure the world's one billion Roman Catholics at a sermon in a packed St Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Since becoming Pope in April following the death of John Paul II, Pope Benedict has reinforced the Church's tough policy on birth control and abortion.

In the sermon yesterday, Pope Benedict said: "Man nurtures the suspicion that God, at the end of the day, takes something away from his life, that God is a competitor who limits our freedom and that we will be fully human only when we will have set Him aside.

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. I'll have to take his word for it.

[TlalocW]

2. He's pointing the finger at the wrong person

Pope Benedict said: "Man nurtures the suspicion that God, at the end of the day, takes something away from his life, that God is a competitor who limits our freedom and that we will be fully human only when we will have set Him aside."

No, that would be the church.

TlalocW

[emad]

3. Just makes me wanna have good, clean fun with Papa Ratzi!

Can't think how yet.

[adriennui]

4. how does papa ratzi know about

fun....all kinds of it.

would he think it's fun to conceive a child every year because birth control is forbidden? is it fun to develop AIDS because condom use is wrong?

is this the 15th century?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. Well, he's right, of course

even if he is kinda creepy.

I've lived my life being pretty "good" and I've had a lot of fun.

Of course, I think if you get to wear Prada shoes and live with Michaelangelo's work in your hall it would be REALLY fun. I like the hat, too.