receiving someone back into the fold

who continues to deny the holocaust happened.....well of COURSE he's going to say using condoms actually helps increase the risk of aids. it's effed up and a giant big fat lie. why anyone let alone a whole religion (on the other hand almost all of the practicing catholics i know PRACTICE BIRTH CONTROL AND SAFER SEX) would say using condoms is a sin, is beyond me. yup, even for the prevention of disease it's a sin. how f**ked is that?

well ask the dude in the dorothy slippers and aretha lid

Medical Journal Criticizes Pope's Comments on AIDS

By Sabina Castelfranco
Rome
The prestigious British medical journal, Lancet, has said Pope Benedict's recent comments against the use of condoms to combat AIDS problem were not only inaccurate but distorted science.

Heavy criticism continues of Pope Benedict's comments that condoms exacerbate the problem of AIDS. The latest attack has come from the prestigious British medical journal Lancet which wrote that the pope had publicly distorted scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine on this issue.

Speaking on the plane to journalists on his first visit to Africa, the pope said HIV/AIDS was a tragedy that could not be overcome through the distribution of condoms, saying it could even increase the problem. He added that the teaching by the Catholic Church of abstinence and fidelity was the only way to combat the problem.

His comments ignited a firestorm of criticism from health officials and activists who said his words were unrealistic and unscientific.

In an interview, aids researcher Dr. Anthony Fauci reacted to the pope's comments.

"It is very clear from good scientific data that condoms play a major role in the prevention of HIV. .............

you know what?

don't give him time. don't let him recant. don't let him 're-examine the evidence'. he's a giant f**kwad. he can re-examine the evidence a million times. he can say he now sees the light. i won't believe him. i'll NEVER believe him. he doesn't think millions of jews were killed. he thinks ONLY 300,000 were killed and none by the gas chamber. let's say that's true (it's NOT, but let's just say it). even if THAT were true. how horrible is it the nazis killed 300,000 people? he doesn't seem to give a shite.

the catholic church doesn't need him. they have ENOUGH problems WITHOUT him.

he is an evil man. that's it. evil

Vatican scrambles as holocaust-denying Bishop promises to 'look again'
Stephen C. Webster
The Vatican is in damage control mode in a continuing row over a Bishop who recently espoused beliefs that the Nazis did not use gas chambers to murder Jews, and that far fewer than 6 million were slaughtered during the Holocaust.

Because of the remarks by British Bishop Richard Williamson, Israel's chief Rabbinate suspended communication with the Catholic church, but resumed talks Saturday after it was announced that Pope Benedict would meet with Jewish groups to mend ties.

But it appears the media saga of Bishop Williamson is not over. "Since I see that there are many honest and intelligent people who think differently, I must look again at the historical evidence," he told Der Spiegel, according to the Jerusalem Post. "It is about historical evidence, not about emotions. And if I find this evidence, I will correct myself. But that will take time."
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this pope benedict is some piece of work

discounting everything else he's done and said in the past, within the past couple of weeks he's UNexcommunicated someone who is a holocaust denier and now this:

Katrina 'divine retribution' pastor promoted
Cleric quoted as saying the hurricane was a punishment for 'immorality'

because that's a VERY 'christian' thing to believe. kill and wound the 'sinners'. hmmmmmmmmmm. wwjd?

the catholic church and it's old white men who KNOW EFFING NOTHING should clean itself out. first not only get rid of ALL OF THE PEDOPHILES BUT TURN THOSE F**KERS OVER TO THE AUTHORITIES and second get rid of all of the misogyny in the church, third make it your job to educate about birth control and safer sex (you don't have to do the actual education if it's too much for you, BUT SUPPORT THOSE THAT DO USE COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION), fourth support not only glbt peeps, but support gay marriage and finally PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH do unto others...................(there's so much more, but we'll cover that later)

VATICAN CITY - An Austrian pastor who has been quoted as calling Hurricane Katrina God's punishment for sin in New Orleans is being promoted to the rank of bishop.

The Vatican announced Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI has tapped the Rev. Gerhard Wagner, 54, to be auxiliary bishop in Linz, Austria. It made no mention of the reported remarks about Hurricane Katrina.

Wagner has served since 1988 as pastor of a church in the Austrian town of Windischgarsten and received a doctorate in theology from the prestigious Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome, the Vatican said.

instead of the pope condemning

president obama's policies why the hell (so to speak) doesn't he condemn a bishop he UN-excommunicated who DENIES THE HOLOCAUST? i ask you that? how horrid is that? millions killed. millions stolen from. millions displaced. ah, but the pope doesn't have a problem with someone who DENIES THE HOLOCAUST

what a load of shite. perhaps the pope is getting advice from mel gibson

Pope lifts excommunications of 4 bishops
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops, including that of a Holocaust denier whose rehabilitation sparked outrage among Jewish groups.

The four bishops were excommunicated 20 years ago after they were consecrated by the late ultraconservative Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre without papal consent — a move the Vatican said at the time was an act of schism.

The Vatican said Saturday that Benedict rehabilitated the four as part of his efforts to bring Lefebvre's Society of St. Pius X back into the Vatican's fold.

But the move came just days after one of the four, British Bishop Richard Williamson, was shown in a Swedish state TV interview saying that historical evidence "is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed."

Jewish groups denounced the Vatican for having embraced a Holocaust denier and warned that the pope's decision would have serious implications for Catholic-Jewish relations as well as the pontiff's planned visit to the Holy Land later this year..........

did you know being gay was a threat to world peace?

well according to the pope it is (surprise surprise)! i thought being evil. being power hungry. being money hungry. being self-absorbed. being violent. being bigoted. being closed-minded. being immoral. being war-mongers. were the actual threats to world peace. silly moi!

Traditional family key to world peace: Pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict ushered in the third New Year of his pontificate on Tuesday with a call for the protection of the traditional family, which he said was vital for world peace.
The Pontiff, in an apparent swipe at gay marriage, criticized policies that undermine the traditional family unit based on a union between a man and a woman.
"I wanted to shed light on the direct relationship that exists between the family and peace in the world," the Pope said, in his first public address of 2008.
"The family is the primary agent of peace and the negation or even the restriction of rights of the family ... threatens the very foundations of peace."......

i believe in evil too

the evil i believe in stems from humankind, NOT the devil. there is no devil other than those that are flesh and blood and born. WE (no, not all of us) are the evil forces (we are also the GOOD forces as well)

Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan
By NICK PISA
................The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.
Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult.
They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of "Godlessness." ...........
............Thanks be to God, we have a Pope who has decided to fight the Devil head-on," he said.
"Too many bishops are not taking this seriously and are not delegating their priests in the fight against the Devil. You have to hunt high and low for a properly trained exorcist. ............