Posted on 12/17/2009 8:12:52 AM PST by markomalley
VATICAN CITY, 17 DEC 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Limerick, Ireland, presented by Bishop Donal Brendan Murray, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.
Maybe he told that Nantucket joke once too often....
what did he do or not do?
There once was a Bishop in Limerick...
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Apparently rhyming jokes tend to be too ribald for the episcopacy.
There once was a man who would quip,
That his religion was quite the bad trip.
He decried the Pope,
And was given the rope,
And now he can’t polish his Bishop.
See my entry, above.
See my entry, above.
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