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Topless Activist Jumps on Main Altar at Strasbourg Cathedral to Protest Pope Francis
Life Site News ^ | 11/25/14 | Jeanne Smits

Posted on 11/26/2014 1:29:25 PM PST by marshmallow

Hours before Pope Francis’ visit to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday, a Femen protester stripped to the waist and jumped onto the main altar of the town’s cathedral on Monday afternoon waving a European Union flag and multi-colored streamers. She danced on the altar for a full minute before running to the cathedral’s exit, vanishing among the crowd on the cathedral square. The woman’s identity has not been disclosed, nor has she been interrogated or arrested by the police.

The topless protester had painted slogans on her naked torso: “Pope is not a politician” and “Anti-Secular Europe.” Femen’s website called her a “Sextremist” who was attracting attention to the European flag’s new status as a “symbol of the alliance between European institutions and the Catholic Church.”

The European Parliament is “sacrificing secularism” in order to recover some popularity in the present crisis of European institutions, says the communiqué on Femen’s website, accusing it of condoning the “injustices and crimes committed by the Church against women for thousands of years”: “Less radical than his predecessors, pope Francis is slowly positioning himself as a political rock-star while giving the Vatican more credit on the international scene. However we do not forget this fascist ‘State’ got its independence from Mussolini. (…) While trying to appear ‘progressive’ on certain subjects, pope Francis simultaneously encourages anti-abortion, anti-contraception and anti-euthanasia lobbies. Despite appearances, Pope Francis’ Vatican is as retrograde and dangerous as it ever was. (…) Let’s take their churches by force! Religion has nothing to do with politics!”

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To: Old Sarge

The pictures are pretty much worthless. Less than an ‘A’ cup. Pretty much a boy.


21 posted on 11/26/2014 2:18:31 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: marshmallow

The occasional beat down, bitch slap, or just outright physical ejection from the church might help to discourage these sub-humans.


22 posted on 11/26/2014 2:20:48 PM PST by DPMD
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To: Old Sarge

I bet she has hairy armpits and rotten teeth that match her ugly chichis.


23 posted on 11/26/2014 2:21:30 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: DTA
Many RC where jubilant when Pussy Riot desecrated main Orthodox Christian cathedral in Moscow. What goes around, comes around.

Really? The Catholic sites I visit all were appalled. Why don't you cite your sources?

24 posted on 11/26/2014 2:21:41 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: DTA

This is a day early-go stuff yourself!


25 posted on 11/26/2014 2:26:15 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: EEGator

Flat as Rachael “pancakes” Corries chest.
Lord, please forgive me and bless the pygmies.....


26 posted on 11/26/2014 2:26:41 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: DTA

Names?


27 posted on 11/26/2014 2:36:49 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: marshmallow

If that happens at my Church, I will assume it is a terrorist attack, will fear for my life, and will act accordingly.


28 posted on 11/26/2014 2:38:25 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: DTA

Like who?


29 posted on 11/26/2014 3:08:19 PM PST by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: for-q-clinton

That wasn’t TOO hard on the eyes.


30 posted on 11/26/2014 3:18:59 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: marshmallow

Hope they swabbed it off with holy water.


31 posted on 11/26/2014 3:32:50 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: for-q-clinton
Well, that was a disappointment. I clicked on the article expecting to see breasts, not those itty-bitty...

Never mind.

32 posted on 11/26/2014 3:40:08 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (Obstruct. Oppose. Overthrow. Obama.)
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To: marshmallow
The European Parliament is “sacrificing secularism” in order to recover some popularity in the present crisis of European institutions . . .

Seems as if they've found out the Catholic Church is more popular than the EU, even in the most dogmatically secular lands on earth.

34 posted on 11/26/2014 4:26:36 PM PST by madprof98
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To: marshmallow

I see the big smile on the popes face so she must have not been bad looking.


35 posted on 11/26/2014 4:31:10 PM PST by ravenwolf (` Does the scripture explain it in full detail? if not how can you?)
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To: forgotten man

This is Europe. Of course she has both hairy armpits and rotten teeth. It’s almost a prerequisite for being European.


36 posted on 11/26/2014 4:37:29 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: marshmallow

It can be safely assumed that something like this would’ve never happened in the middle ages.

She would not have dare to it — she would have been toast, literally.


37 posted on 11/26/2014 4:44:02 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: marshmallow

Attention whore.


38 posted on 11/26/2014 4:46:56 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: marshmallow

Let’s see her do that in a Masque in protest of beheadings and sharia law!


39 posted on 11/26/2014 4:56:25 PM PST by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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