Posts Tagged ‘pope’

To treat with excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I was not particularly indulgent with the Catholic Church and Pope Inquisitor, when I last discussed plenary indulgences on here. (Quoting Hitchens doesn’t count.)
I see that the indulgences are newsworthy again, with some discussion this week of a piece in the Times. I’m mostly amused that part of the point of the piece is that [...]

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And now, from the “headlines I never expected to see” category…

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Knights Templar sue the Pope.
Yeah. That’s what I said.
The Daily Telegraph reports that The Association of the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ has launched a court case in Spain, demanding Pope Benedict “recognise” the seizure of assets worth €100bn. The Spanish-based group of Templars apparently says in a statement: “We are not trying [...]

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Hypocrisy on parade

Friday, April 18th, 2008

There’s an evil tableau for you: the callous torturer stands up with blood on his hands and a lie in his teeth, while the priest draped in gilt reassures him of his righteousness. How often has that scene played out in history, I wonder?
You know, I wouldn’t change a word in what Paul Myers says [...]

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Religion Bashing For Thursday

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

OK, let’s close some tabs.
First off, let’s start with our old friend, the head Inquisitioner, Pope Benedict.

It appears he’s been a naughty fellow.
A BBC documentary has exposed that Pope Benedict XVI, aka Cardinal Ratzinger, played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests.
In 2001, while he was a [...]

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He’s Out To Get Me

Friday, November 30th, 2007

And in recent Catholic Church news, possibly relevant to the ongoing discussion between my friend Biff and I in another post’s comments, we have the current Pope lashing out at… atheists:
Pope Benedict, in a new encyclical released on Friday, said atheism was responsible for some of the “greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice” [...]

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