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To: Gamecock

Someone can’t count very high. Especially if one is counting children begotten after election to the Papal throne. I know of some that were begotten before, but none come to mind begotten after.


179 posted on 05/21/2015 9:43:12 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus
I know of some that were begotten before, but none come to mind begotten after.

Sure there were.

Let's start with Alexander VII, who had at least 7.

184 posted on 05/21/2015 9:59:28 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: Hieronymus; Gamecock

And the excuses begin......

Well, they didn’t have those children AFTER they became popes, just before. It’s different, dontcha know?

*sigh*

So tell me, did the Holy Spirit then direct people to elect men of such moral bankruptcy to *lead* the Catholic church?

Does the Holy Spirit direct the college of cardinals to elect a new pope?

Simple yes or no question.


205 posted on 05/21/2015 11:52:48 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Hieronymus

And Luther couldn’t even get married after the Catholic church ex-communicated him according to some Catholics who demand a life of moral purity that would exceed Jesus’ without having a FRoman Catholic meltdown of Chernobyl proportions, and yet blow off lives of rampant and out of control immorality from their own popes.

Standards for thee but not for me.


220 posted on 05/21/2015 12:27:33 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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