1. The Vatican has been encouraging in a DIVERSITY OF WAYS. such idolatry and blasphemies for centuries.
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B) GIVING GREAT CEREMONIOUS SPEECHES WITH INCREDIBLE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE EMBELLISHING AND SUPPORTING SUCH SENTIMENTS.
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C) SELLING AND ALLOWING TO BE SOLD WITHIN THE VATICAN UMBRELLA ALL MANNER OF ACCOUTRAMENTS SUPPORTIVE OF SUCH SENTIMENTS.
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D) ENDLESS PASTORAL ?HOMILIES? AROUND THE PLANET PONTIFICATING SUCH SENTIMENTS.
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E) COUNTLESS NUNS AND OTHER TEACHERS IN THOUSANDS OF PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS PONTIFICATING SUCH SENTIMENTS AROUND THE WORLD.
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F) VATICAN SANCTIONED TO AT LEAST COOPERATED WITH, MANY DOZENS IF NOT 100'S OF MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PROPAGATING SUCH SENTIMENTS.
However, if my social network of Roman Catholics is the least bit of a cross sectional clue (and I have every reason to believe it is), NOT EVEN THE AVERAGE ROMAN CATHOLIC BELIEVES SUCH A STINKING PILE OF DUPLICITY. The average Roman Catholic in my experience is tons more objective, tons more honest and tons more insightful than all the RC rabid clique folks hereon put together multiplied X 5 . . . at least X 3! LOL.
Soooooo, go right ahead thinking that y'all can run and hide behind the Catechism or the latest Encyclical on such matters any time it's convenient or in the interest of THE INSTITUTION to do so. The average RC in the pew and the average citizen on the street around the world ain't buyin' it. Perhaps they think that being honest before God is more important than the rabid clique folks hereon think is the case. Or perhaps they have more than a faint fog in Phoenix in July's worth of insight about such matters.
By all means, feel free to keep propagating such delusions. It helps make such idolatries, heresies and blasphemies even more of a laughing stock to the average reader. The Vatican isn't known as THE SUPREME MARY PUSHER around the world for nothing.