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To: Elsie
why don’t you venerate me?

I don't see an example of Christian faith in you, sorry.

1,390 posted on 04/14/2014 5:58:02 AM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex
I don't see an example of Christian faith in you, sorry.

And yet...



Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

1,398 posted on 04/14/2014 7:23:56 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: annalex
The Catholic Encyclopedia, compiled during the reign of Pope St. Pius X, states very plainly: "Of course, the election of a heretic, schismatic, or female would be null and void" (s.v. "Papal Elections").

 http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/the-bad-popes-argument.htm

 

I've been told, by a Catholic, to ignore the following...

 

 

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1,399 posted on 04/14/2014 7:32:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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