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To: metmom
The only thing that [Luther and Calvin] discovered was wealth and power.

Really? Like this??????

Do you know how much wealth the Pope has?

http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/testamento-jp-ii_20050407_en.html says that:

I leave no possessions of which it will be necessary to dispose. As for the things I use every day, I ask that they be distributed as seems appropriate. Let my personal notes be burned. I ask that Fr Stanis³aw see to this, and I thank him for his help and collaboration, so understanding for so many years. On the other hand, I leave all my other "thank yous" in my heart before God Himself, because it is difficult to express them.

Yup, wealth and money and power. How much was Luther worth when he died? Far more than JPII. He left no possessions that would be necessary to dispose of. In other words, your charge of wealth and power fall upon a man who had none. I welcome the chance to illustrate that you are, well, wrong, once again.

622 posted on 11/26/2011 5:24:43 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr; metmom

Why, the Pope sounds positively pauperish the way you describe him. One meal shy of total destitution. Fortunately for him, he is surrounded by all the gold, and silver and art, and jewels, and ermine, and marble that religious institutions were commanded by Christ to own. not. If not for those Pope Perks, I’m sure he would be riding around in his Ice Cream Truck, selling Popesicles to earn enough for a bowl of soup and a piece of bread a day.


625 posted on 11/26/2011 5:33:44 PM PST by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing is for an eternity..)
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