POPE SCREWS THE POOCH

That's what I was taught. One true holy apostolic....

'Course, I'm over it. But it doesn't seem news to me.

that's how it starts... first an altar boy or two.... next thing you know it's sex with animals....

yeah...I'm with osso...

it's right in the creed you say during Mass...one true apostolic church.

was that taken out?

Let me go look.

500 years of strife, bitter resentment and often bloodshed between Protestant and Catholic, and now the Pope decides to make sure the pot stays on the boil. Sure, every church teaches its adherents that "we" know the truth and all others are in error, but there has been a move toward ecumenical rapprochement in recent decades. They used to make jokes which suggested that John Paul, as a Pole, was stereotypically stupid ("Why did they open a bowling alley next door to the Vatican? So the Pope would have somewhere to cash his checks.") But this guy has to be just about the stupidest git to wear the Papal tiara in six centuries.

something else, I heard on the radio this morning that the pope has re-instated the mass (in latin) calling for jews to convert. Interesting theological politics.

Them damned Jews . . . we really need to do something about them . . .

The Inquisition (Let's begin)
The Inquisition (Look out sin)
We have a mission to convert the Jews (Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew)
We're gonna teach them wrong from right.
We're gonna help them see the light
and make an offer that they can't refuse. (That those Jews just can't refuse)
Confess, don't be boring.
Say yes, don't be dull.
A fact you're ignoring:
It's better to lose your skull cap than your skull (or your govalt!)
The Inquisition (what a show)
The Inquistion (here we go)
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away.
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!

"I was sitting in a temple. I was minding my own business.
I was listening to a lovely Hebrew mass.
Then these Papus persons plungered and they throw me in a dungeon and they shove a red hot poker up my ass.
Is that considerate? Is that polite?
And not a tube of Preperation H in sight!"

"I'm sittin' flickin' chickens and I'm lookin' throught the pickins' and suddenly thes goyim pull down valls.
I didn't even know them and they grabbed my by the stoghum and started playing ping pong with my balls!
Ooh, the agony! Ooh, the shame!
To make my privates public for a game?"

The Inquisition (what a show)
The Inquisition (here we go)
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away.
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to-
"Hey Toquemada, walk this way."
"I just got back from the Auto-de-fe."
"Auto-de-fe? What's an Auto-de-fe?"
"It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway."
Will you convert? "No, no, no, no."
Will you confess? "No, no, no, no."
Will you revert? "No, no, no, no."
Will you say yes? "No, no, no, no!"
Now I asked in a nice way, I said, "Pretty please."
I bent their ears, now I'll work on their knees!
"Hey Toquemada, walk this way. We got a little game that you might wanna play, so pull that handle, try you're luck."
"Who knows, Toq, you might win a buck!"

"How we doin', any converts today?"
"Not a one, nay, nay, nay."
"We flattened their fingers, we branded their buns!
Nothing is working! Send in the nuns!"

The Inquisition, what a show.
The Inquisition, here we go.
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away!
So all you Muslims and you Jews
We got big news for all of yous:
You'd better change your point of views TODAY!
'Cause the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!

The man is a strict theologian. Ecumenical means 'come'on a my house', we'll talk, you can leave your own.

I admit to not remembering that line in the old latin mass, though I gather it's there.

Time to quote a famed member of the opposition:



BTW, where did you get the Torquemada Tune, BPB?

On the conversion of the Jews line, I'm not arguing the church didn't act despicably, don't get me going. But, I'm wondering if it was at some point an add-on line, somewhere in the twentieth century. Not that I wonder enough to google research it.

I have my ways...

HMMM!

So you won't come clean, eh?

Take That!

http://otherside.junik.lv/pages/inquisition.html

exactly where I got it.... so why'd ya ask?

I'm lazy and allergic to Google. :wink:

Izzit just me or is this new Pope a real Dick? Woytela at least got some good **** done and, although he was a hard liner himself, he only blew up at his own crew(course he always did it when the cameras were on). (Member when he chewed out those Mexican pastors for teaching liberal theology?)

Whereas this guy is beginning to think that hes somehow relevant. Remember, the Catholics, like the Evangelicals, are primarily playing to the third world, where procreation is recreation.

From my admittedly wry, or worse, point of view, he is not irrelevant; he's been a key guide for PJPII. I left the church around the time of the piss fights between him and Hans Kung. He's wily and adamant.

For an antidote to my view, I remember that Fbaezer has not been as caustic as I have, and he's probably more up on details.

He's a real hardliner and tough theologian. Even as Cardinal, he fought the
liberal priests, he believes that pro choice politicians should be denied communion, and calls homosexuality "moral evil". Yet he was supporting
pedophile priests who fled to the Vatican in order to escape prosecution
in the US.

Ever since Benedict accused Mohammed to have brought inhumanity and evil
over the world, the Muslims are provoked and angered by him.

He is no dummy by any means, speaking 10 languages, being an accomplished pianist and prefers intellectual discussions, but he is an
arch conservative, almost radical, who will bring a wider gap between the catholic church and its followers than any other pope has brought.

Nods to Jane. And long he has been. Nothing new.