OK, so let me get this straight. The new Pope was a member of the Hitler youth, hates homosexuals and thinks that abortion is the lowest of the low... and people are cheering this guy? WHAT THE FUCKI

But! He wasn't affected by WWII the way John Paul II was, that's for sure, and I think that's why people keep pointing out the Hitler Youth thing.

please, get off this line of argument -- it hurts the credibility of anti-ratzinger people, esp. when there's MUCH stronger stuff to nail him on (e.g., the homophobia, his role in smashing liberation theology, his reactionary views on catholic theology).

http://www.studio-c.co.uk/maliciousdamage/graphics/mdposter001.jpg

yeah, i can't imagine sending your kids to hitler youth was always "optional" if you can imagine....

(xposts galore)

that's more than enough threads about the Pope. people need to be encouraged to use the search function and not just start new threads just so they can ensure their predictable opinion gets heard.

Shocker.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gay-christians-denounce-popes-comments-1208757.html

His three years is past up.

popeage

A friend of ours who used to work high up for a major supplier of precious jewels and fine ceramics to the Vatican told an extraordinary story to us the other night of being invited on a tour of the Vatican about fifteen years ago. They took her under the crypt to rooms barred from public view. There, in rooms covered in panels depicting sexual congress, mostly between men, they offered her wine served in a diamond, ruby and sapphire encrusted goblet. After that, an official asked her, would she care for some cocaine?

Best faith in the world, imo.

Well they certainly know how to secure their fun money.

pope johnson is right. it's very clear the human population is dwindling to almost nothing, and this must be down to lack of procreation. absolute emergency, people.

Somebody didn't see the last minute Christmas shopping crowds.

i wonder which version of 'hallelujah' he thinks is best

Not kd lang's I'm guessing.

Or Rufus Wainwright's.

He might be he only person in the world who likes Bono's version - I mean, apart from Bono, that is. Nice chap, he got on well enough with the last pope.

A friend of ours who used to work high up for a major supplier of precious jewels and fine ceramics to the Vatican told an extraordinary story to us the other night of being invited on a tour of the Vatican about fifteen years ago. They took her under the crypt to rooms barred from public view. There, in rooms covered in panels depicting sexual congress, mostly between men, they offered her wine served in a diamond, ruby and sapphire encrusted goblet. After that, an official asked her, would she care for some cocaine?

― moley, Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:18 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

moley are you lyndon larouche

amazing story btw, w/o getting all dan brown, u kno there has to be some kind of ineradicable decadent vatican subculture, functionaries and minor secretaries whose successive appointments go back all the way to boniface viii and shit

Joey Ratz hates the sin, not the sinner.

apptly he has really gone all out on statuary and robes and other ritzy pope tat. he is the most fabulous pope in quite a while.

If I looked as much like a bald Camilla Parker Bowles as Ratzy, I too would roll in bling to distract others from this notion.

This saving the world from homosexuality shtick. What was he trying to say actually? I saw this reported as 'homosexuality is evil' (as at Nick's link above), but elsewhere it was reported more as a bashing of gender relations theory. And his bashing of gender relations theory was rooted in his idea of emerging understandings of intrinsic physiological differences in (average) male and female neurocognitive systems, I think. But, if this is what he was saying, he would also have to pay attention to emerging understandings of the physiological basis of homosexuality...

I mean clearly he was confused about something, but what?

"contraception mentality"