The Pope is Stepping Down

[dbx]

At least the Pope is not stepping out. Just sayin'....

(raised a catholic...need no outrage here )

[PopeGregorius]

Protector of pedophiles
Persecutor of gays
Enemy of contraception

Good riddance.

At the local level, the average catholic ignores most of what comes from the vatican. They are more concerned with local catholic schools, hospitals, age care facilities etc.

The contraception rate for catholics is the same as the rest of the population. And catholics are as astounded about pedo priests as everybody else.

[nosaj7]

The Prophecy of the Popes for the unaware goes that in 1139 a Irish Archbishop we know today as Saint Malachy was summed by Pope Innocent II to head to the Vatican. It is said that when St. Malachy arrived he had a vision of the next 112 popes that predicted that the last pope would be a false pope whose real identity would be Satan. Malachy wrote down a cryptic phase to represent each of these popes and presented the document to Pope Innocent II who locked the document in the Vatican secret vault where it lay undiscovered for some 400 years.

These cryptic messages are quite vague yet at the same time they are fairly accurate. For instance in Pope John Paul the firsts cryptic message as the 109th pope said “of the half moon”, he reigned from one half moon to another. John Paul the second was the “labour of the son” he was the only pope who was born on the day of a Solar eclipse and was entombed on the day of a solar eclipse. The final true pope, 111th, Benedict the 16th (current Pope) is said to be “Glory to the olive”, according to the order of Benedictine monks this is a reference to them claiming that St. Benedict predicted that the last pope will come from their order. While Benedict the 16th did not come from the order of the Benedictine monks the choice of name is interesting. The finally 112th pope who some claim was not included in Malachy’s original text is “Peter the Roman”

[paolo59]

At the local level, the average catholic ignores most of what comes from the vatican. They are more concerned with local catholic schools, hospitals, age care facilities etc.

The contraception rate for catholics is the same as the rest of the population. And catholics are as astounded about pedo priests as everybody else.

You know, I am astounded. I guess the old addage; one bad apple...I get freakin' tired of stupid ($*% for brains folk pointing a finger. I understand. It is a shame. There is no excuse. I guess it comes down to it; don't play with 'holy' things unless you're holy! But I get fed up pretty quick!