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lordcooper

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How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« on: March 29, 2013, 04:36:33 am »

This new Pope seems like he might actually be a decent sort of chap, does he have the power to make Catholicism an actual force for good?
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Re: How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2013, 04:44:12 am »

Except for his links with Jorge Videla's dictatorship you mean. And opposition to gay marriage, etc...

Not that this makes him horrid, I mean, odds are that he's something of an improvement over the last. But there's a lot of "meet new boss, same as old boss" at play.
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Re: How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2013, 04:46:18 am »

There are a lot of issues i still have with him from his bishoping days, and until the issue of child molestation in the vatican is addressed absolutely no pope will get so much as a nod of approval from me.
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Re: How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2013, 05:06:50 am »

He's got a foot fetish, apparently.

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Re: How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2013, 05:16:09 am »

He's got a foot fetish, apparently.

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Re: How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2013, 05:53:15 am »

This isn't a "do you like the Pope?" thread, this a "what can the Pope do?" thread.
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Re: How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2013, 06:05:30 am »

This isn't a "do you like the Pope?" thread

This new Pope seems like he might actually be a decent sort of chap, does he have the power to make Catholicism an actual force for good?
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Re: How much power/influence does the Pope have these days?
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2013, 07:14:06 am »

I like how the new pope smells feet.