Pope resigns, effective at the end of February

[Petzel]

Cars have caused plenty of damage to millions of people, but we keep them. But I sure as shit am not stupid enough to build my worldview around alleged events that happened to relatives of a anonymous internet poster.

By the way...it is BILLION not million (I am hoping the bold will help you read it). Here is a news flash for you...just because people come from a different culture from you does not mean they are stupid or inferior. You must have a pretty big ego to insult a billion or so people, and you are, as always, wrong about where the vast majority come from.

Torquemada is a fascinating example. He might have been responsible for the death of 1,000 people, and interestingly it was the Pope who restrained him because the secular spanish crown was getting carried away. That is less than the number of Catholic priests murdered in the Spanish civil war. I don't see your panties in a knot about those murders. Of course those murders were only 70 years ago, while you are obviously upset about acts that took place 500 years ago. That is healthy. Are you still pissed off about Caesar's invasion of your homeland or Napleon's?

Child abuse is always a terrible crime and the people who committ it should be punished. But the rate of child abuse in the RCC is less than that in public schools. Are you a hater of public schools as well?

I actually am very well versed in both sides of the church, not just an angry biased man who hates the church and is both arrogant and ignorant about it. As usual you spew a bunch of vague allegations but won't even mention how the church came to lead the opposition to Franco in Spain and advocated the separation of church and state.

You simply ignore the fact that this church is the largest charitable organization in the world, and feeds, educates and provides medical care to millions. You can ignore it, but it is real.

While you are quick to judge others, you really should consider some reality therapy yourself. Perhaps start by learning the history of your own country in the last century.

Yes, they educate their children and other Catholics not to use birth control and further compound the issue, by telling them not to use condoms either........even though many of the African cultures where HIV is rampant, is where they practise their ministries!
Also, by teaching procreation they are further continuing the cycle of poverty. It is the poorest who continue to breed at astounding rates because the church tells them it's a religious obligation to do so. Then they set up Catholic charities to help the people that they oppresed into poverty in the first place, by continuing to tell them to have children that they can't afford!
The only thing you've said that I agree with is the fact that even if priests didn't take a vow of chastity, there are some that would still be pedophiles! If they want to molest boys they will do it, regardless of their vocation and regardless if they're married.

 

[Aardvark154]

Pope receives news of his warrant of arrest before resignation


...On February 4, a week before Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, Vatican allegedly received a note from an undisclosed European government that stated that there are plans to issue a warrant for the Pope's arrest. Addicting Info reports.

Did you notice Sophie, how neither of the articles mentions what the charges against him supposedly are (that's because the articles amount to we hate you, not to you violated a particular criminal statute in this (international) state). Further, how popular do you believe this witch hunt of a 85 year old man who it is now reported has had one stroke and is blind in one eye, will be.

 

[Aardvark154]

I must say TERB is enough to make even Ian Paisley feel supportive of the RCC