This led me to write the following "poem" (I'm also a former Catholic).
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Ratzinger's Pope
and your all excommunicated.
Sorry - I meant "you're all excommunicated".
I am not Catholic either, but I guess we all have a stake in who heads a religion with over one billion followers, not to mention that the Vatican is its own state. It would have been better if they had nodded in the direction of the future, but instead chose to stay cloaked in the past (a weirdly wicked past, at that). I am always surprised by how hopeful I am, but tend to only gauge it by the depths of my disappointment.
Grandma Blue-- nice poem.
if the president and commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation on the planet can be a reformed alcoholic and erase all his past by being "born again" why not a former hitler jugend pope?
at least he didn't take the name innocent.
The following quote from Cardinal Ratzinger is up at Shakespeare's Sister:
"...when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behavior to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational and violent reactions increase."
Gee, I thought it was John Cornyn that said that. It seems conservative minds think alike.
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