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The key insight, that few commentators seem to understand, is that there are two separate and historically rival entities in the Vatican: The Holy See and The Roman Curia. The Holy See is the office of the Pope. The Roman Curia is the government ministries and the bureaucracy which also controls the cash. Think of the deep rivalry between the White House and Capitol Hill in The West Wing and you begin to get the idea.
If you connect the recent dots, there’s a power struggle going on (as usual) between the Roman Curia and the Holy See. The Curia is led by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone who is backed by the Salesians (the fastest growing order in the church and on an ascending path for consolidating its power). Bertone is Secretary of State and also the Camerlengo which means he controls the Curia and will run the church when the Pope becomes too old or too ill to do his job. He would then, in effect, be the de facto pope. Papal doctors could keep an ailing pope alive for ten years which means that Bertone could run the church for a decade before the pope finally dies and there is an election. This is a very tempting and powerful proposition to an ambitious Roman prince. Bertone is the Pope’s nemesis in the Vatican.
Pope Benedict (who as Cardinal Ratzinger himself ran the church when pope John Paul II was too old) knows exactly what this means and has been trying to thwart Bertone’s stalking grab for power. The recent Vatileaks episode was evidence of all this. It was all about the Pope’s loyal butler trying to stave off Bertone and trying to protect his master, but Bertone got him anyway.
So we are left with an aging Pope, a virtual prisoner of The Holy See, running out of personal protectors, who has only one move left to keep The Holy See from the hands of Bertone and the Roman Curia. He can put the future of the church back into the hands of the College of Cardinals … by resigning! Checkmate.
http://www.boltedmedia.com/brazilia...cing-followers-his-penis-contained-holy-milk/
Valdeci Sobrino Picanto (pictured) is a Brazilian Evangelical Pastor who has been arrested for convincing his followers that his penis contains HOLY MILK.
One of Picanto’s followers stated, “He convinced us that only God could come into our lives through our mouth and that’s why he would do what he did. Often, after worship, pastor Valdeci would take us to the where the funds were kept at the back of the Church and asked us to have oral sex with him until the Holy Spirit would come through ejaculation.“
They spend more time on religion than any other country except Israel.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0611/455987-primary-schools/
Irish children twice as likely to dislike school compared to other children internationally
So be good or you'll burn for eternity makes children feel bad......hmmm who the fuck would have thought that.
I've said it before and I will say it again. Fuck Ireland.
I don't think kids should love school, I sure as fuck didn't but if you're going to do something you hate it should at least be beneficial. I can't see any way that having religion forced down my throat years benefitted me in the fucking slightest.I went to a Prod school, it was all very "Jesus was nice, we should be nice," and I still hated school.
I was a bit shocked that the main headline on RTE news yesterday (or maybe today, I forget) was a statement by some bishop about what every irish person should think about something (in this case it was the abortion legislation).
anyway, here look at this
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