Former Stupidest Man on the Internet Jim Hoft (now demoted to merely a Stupid Man) made a pretty strong bid to regain his title Thursday with a seriously dumb post pointing out that Pope Francis smiled -- the commie jerk! -- as Bolivian President Evo Morales handed him a gift of a crucifix depicting Christ on a hammer and sickle:
Partly the Catholic-hate is due to the fact that a lot of them were Scots-Irish immigrants from the Protestant side of the olde Irish hatefest - people who had supported the English king William of Orange prior to leaving and settling in the upper South, hence the name "hillbilly." Tradition dies hard around there, even though a lot of them long ago switched from rational Presbyterian to ravening Calvinist/Baptist.
The Pope doesn't have any control over that. He is not like a CEO or a military commander, and local priests don't "'work" for him. The Roman Catholic Church is not a corporation. The head honcho in these cases is the local bishop. It is the bishop, not the Pope, who is the priest's superior, and it is the bishop who would be responsible for reporting such crimes to the local authorities. In this respect the Pope is more like a foreign head of state whereas the bishop and the offending priest are both citizens of the jurisdiction whose laws were broken. Demanding that the Pope "turn over" a child molesting priest to the local authorities is kind of like telling the General Secretary of the UN to turn over one of the members of the Baltimore PD who had abused Freddy Gray to the Maryland authorities.
It makes you wonder how much of the fabulous treasures supposedly in the Vatican vaults is shit like this.
Or Redd Foxx?
That was slick.
I knew I missed my calling as a theologian. no actually as a wise-ass, so I didn't miss my calling.
BTW, I welcome pedantry when I learn something. Thanks!
Back in the day, he had some strong viewson Catholicism: http://jowett.web.cern.ch/j...
A.K.A. The German Shepherd
Partly the Catholic-hate is due to the fact that a lot of them were Scots-Irish immigrants from the Protestant side of the olde Irish hatefest - people who had supported the English king William of Orange prior to leaving and settling in the upper South, hence the name "hillbilly." Tradition dies hard around there, even though a lot of them long ago switched from rational Presbyterian to ravening Calvinist/Baptist.
No torrent. Figures.
the flying nun...
"El Chapo" is on his way to make a personal delivery...
Nein
Or Black Francis?
The Pope doesn't have any control over that. He is not like a CEO or a military commander, and local priests don't "'work" for him. The Roman Catholic Church is not a corporation. The head honcho in these cases is the local bishop. It is the bishop, not the Pope, who is the priest's superior, and it is the bishop who would be responsible for reporting such crimes to the local authorities. In this respect the Pope is more like a foreign head of state whereas the bishop and the offending priest are both citizens of the jurisdiction whose laws were broken. Demanding that the Pope "turn over" a child molesting priest to the local authorities is kind of like telling the General Secretary of the UN to turn over one of the members of the Baltimore PD who had abused Freddy Gray to the Maryland authorities.
Maybe there's an anti-Holy Trinity?
Try Torrenthound. I found one there. If I'm violating a rule I'm not aware of here, I apologise.
Well, it appears to be *cast* or perhaps injection-molded. I'm not sure if they have commandmentish things for those processes. :)