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Waiting for newpope's response...

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Hear no evil, fuck no evil.

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What did you do ? Wear ass-less chaps during Mass?

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Their siblings?

Sister: "He did it!" Brother: "Did not! <em>She</em> started it!"

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Strict? As in, having tight control over their clergy?

Highly structured? Hierarchical, for sure. Not that it enabled them to implement a coherent response to the scandal, though.

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I viewed a couple of Penthouses and my parents divorced, but you don't see me groping elementary school kids.

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<i>Michalik almost immediately apologized and said that he’d been misunderstood, because the words that came out of his mouth were obviously not what he actually meant.</i>

So I'm guess he proffered the standard "I'm sorry you misunderstood me and got all upset over nothing".

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"Show me on the doll where the Archbishop was misunderstood."

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What the hell does that quote even mean? You are going to admit a priest did it and then say "Father Ralph, you owe little Nicky $1,000,000,000"? or it sounds more probable it would be "Little Nicky, you owe Father Ralph and the Catholic Church $1,000,000,000" Your existence made him do it.

What a schmuck.

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<i>A child from a troubled family, Michalik told reporters, “seeks closeness with others and may get lost and may get the other person involved, too.”</i>

Well <i>that</i> sucked the stained glass out of the windows.

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<i>A child from a troubled family, Michalik told reporters, “seeks closeness with others and may get lost and may get the other person involved, too.</i>

That doesn't even make sense up close.

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