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WorkingMummy Wrote:

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> I often wish Christopher Hitchens were still

> alive, to hear him wave his verbal cleaver about a

> bit.

>

> Woodrot captures the general drift nicely on this

> occasion, though.


You could settle for Tim Minchin instead of Hitchens.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rTIorwtJbhE


*not safe for work!

Doubtful, firstly we don't know the truth just an allegations.


He did have a lawsuit brought against him 10 years ago for involvement in the kidnap and torture of two priests (ironically ones that stood up against injustice), though can't seem to find what happened to it.


I've noticed this article has jumped up the search results since earlier this morning

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/345612


I imagine he'll ride it out, but I would have thought riding out scandal is the sort of thing the new pope was being elected to put an end to.


Also a picking a South American Jesuit clearly shows the intention to push back the inroads made by evangelical protestantism in the continent, a modern counter-reformatiuon if you will.


Given the resurgence in popular socialism across the region, someone with the blood of cold war fascism on their hands, or at least the whiff of it, seems a frankly freakish choice!

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> Why have they chosen another old man again??



most of their first choices are dead - i.e. ex brown or blackshirts - so you have to admire the churches ingenuity at digging out other proto fascists for the top job*



* yes I know the last one was an unwilling HJ conscript who legged it as soon as he could, but lets not get bogged down with the truth

Whilst I don't entirely agree with that stance, I wouldn't dismiss it all together. I believe that in many cases paedophillia is something that people can't help (the urge, not the act!).


I remember listeniong to a story on R4 a few years back of a couple who had come through an awful time. They had a daughter, and one day the man was horrified to realise that he was becoming sexually stimulated at the sight of her naked. I think he may have touched her inappropriately and she told her mum. He then came clean, and she stuck with him and he got help. This was not a man who had chosen to be a paedop[hile, and who was absolutely disgusted and shamed by his own feelings.


These catholic priests on the other hand are just men who are starved of sex, and can't take it any more IMO.

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