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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Other popes before him were far more fallible than he has been.

Please name them.

7 posted on 08/09/2019 8:19:26 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: ebb tide; MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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The popes that carried out the inquisition and mass slaughter of Jews and messianic believers were far more evil than Francis has been so far.
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11 posted on 08/09/2019 8:30:41 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ebb tide

All of them. Including the three simultaneous ones. I have more authority than any of them being a born again believer.

The catholic church has been lies since it started. Power control, and money.


12 posted on 08/09/2019 8:30:42 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: ebb tide
Please name them.

According to Catholic doctrine, all of them are fallible unless speaking ex cathedra, which hasn't happened since 1950. So, Papal infallibility is really a paper tiger, especially with this Pope, who only speaks in generalities and innuendo. As demonstrated on this forum, this reality renders him the subject of derision and ridicule even among professing Catholics
13 posted on 08/09/2019 8:36:24 PM PDT by armydoc
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To: ebb tide
For starters:

Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]:19

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 .[1]:153

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.[1]:204

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.[1]:218

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

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

33 posted on 08/10/2019 5:58:29 AM PDT by ealgeone
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