Pope Benedict re Christmas: "subjected to a sort of commercial pollution."

sabra

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Pope Benedict re Christmas: "subjected to a sort of commercial pollution."

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=bizarre&id=3716373

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Pope Benedict XVI complained this week that Christmas festivities have been "subjected to a sort of commercial pollution."

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MadAsHellNewYorker

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:03 PM
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1. Hes declaring war on American Christmas!!!!

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verse18

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:06 PM
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2. I can't wait to see

what insults the fundie nutjobs are going to hurl at the Pope for hating Christmas.

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:09 PM
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3. the rat just noticed? I hear that some still use that term of endearment

within the vatican.

Let's see.
Evolution is right, then it isn't, then it is again, then we aren't sure.
gays can serve as priests, then they can't, now they can if by some squirrly standard they haven't acted obviously gay in the past three years. (whatever that means)
Sex abuse by priests is important, then it isn't, and now some are getting away it under his explicit orders.
Christmas is now to commercialized. I wonder how long this stance will last.

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LeftNYC

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:15 PM
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4. Someone buy the Pope an O'Reilly doormat...nt

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xray s

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:18 PM
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5. Which rightwing nut will be the first to call him Pope Benedict Arnold?

Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 05:19 PM by xray s

My money is on O'Reilly

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C_U_L8R

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:21 PM
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6. I wish the Pope would declare war

on the gold grubbing televangelists and the philistine fakers who call themselves fundies.

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JVS

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:25 PM
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8. Seeing as he lives in a freaking palace, I don't think he has much room...

to talk.

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:24 PM
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7. Understatementus Weekorum (nt)

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philarq

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:38 PM
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9. This from a guy that wears Prada shoes and Gucci sunglasses.

This Pope is much more of a "European" than the last one.

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Pharlo

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Tue Dec-13-05 05:53 PM
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10. As a Catholic, I agree with

posters 7 and 9. Before complaining about the excesses of others, he should remove himself from the opulence and grandeur of the Vatican.

And, those Prada shoes are red ruby - not exactly the footwear of a humble man... I don't care if it is tradition.

I may not have agreed with John Paul II on many issues, but at least he lived what he preached. That I could respect. In this instance Benedict is reminiscent of a televangelist wearing expensive shoes and jewelry living in a mansion, and asking poor people who are barely surviving to send them money...

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