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To: CynicalBear
They put their full faith and trust in those apostates.

Wasn't it Solomon that said something about "...nothing new under the sun..."





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

103 posted on 11/19/2014 9:02:30 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
They put their full faith and trust in those apostates. Wasn't it Solomon that said something about "...nothing new under the sun..."

I KNEW IT !!!!! your famous list of naughty popes, how you resisted this long is amazing....just think, you found a handful of popes over 2,000 years who were real badasses so that undoubtedly in your mind discredits the entire Catholic Church....good luck with that....we have had more bad presidents than that in 200 years...given up un the U.S. yet???

129 posted on 11/19/2014 2:25:35 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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