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News & ArtsWednesday, March 13, 2013
Religion This Tweet from the Vatican Is Genius
Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:48 AM
HABEMUS PAPAM \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
— VaticanCommunication (@PCCS_VA) March 13, 2013
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I've been waiting to post this ever since Cardinal Ratzinger abdicated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1rmsCP…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1rmsCP…
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It's an Argentine, in power during the dirty war (late 70s, early 80s). The Catholic Church collaborated with the government, and has blood on its hands - lots of dead sons and daughters, stolen children. I don't want to prejudge, and don't know what he did, but just the association makes me feel queezy.
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@6, not celebrating the Fuhrer's birthday at St. Peter's and providing active assistance, but as usual protecting only its own interests:
“The attitude of the church was scandalously close to the dictatorship” that killed more than 15,000 Argentines and tortured tens of thousands more, the priest told a panel of three judges here, “to such an extent that I would say it was of a sinful degree.” The panel is deciding the fate of the Rev. Christian von Wernich, a priest accused of conspiring with the military who has become for many a powerful symbol of the church’s role.
The church “was like a mother that did not look for her children,” Father Capitanio added. “It did not kill anybody, but it did not save anybody, either.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/world/…
“The attitude of the church was scandalously close to the dictatorship” that killed more than 15,000 Argentines and tortured tens of thousands more, the priest told a panel of three judges here, “to such an extent that I would say it was of a sinful degree.” The panel is deciding the fate of the Rev. Christian von Wernich, a priest accused of conspiring with the military who has become for many a powerful symbol of the church’s role.
The church “was like a mother that did not look for her children,” Father Capitanio added. “It did not kill anybody, but it did not save anybody, either.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/world/…
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@6 The RC church has been abusing Latin America for 500 years. It's one of the last strongholds of social & political ignorance left for the papacy to exploit, Africa notwithstanding. The lack of stable democratic governments is a direct result of the patriarchal nature of the RC church and its inordinate influence in LA culture.
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I have no idea what Habemus Papam means, but I assume it has something to do with a row of martini glasses.
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Vatican tweets announcement of new pope in dead language in an attempt to demonstrate their social awareness.
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