Poisoned chalice refusal?

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February 12, 2013 at 12:10 am #6910

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This seems to me the main motive for Papal resignation, as more and more people in Europe (and elsewhere) have already started to drift towards religion (and extreme anti-whomever/whatever sentiments), and the old religion retakes the place of the modern varieties of technology, economics and finance in full force.

EDIT: I add that these guys (the church) really know how the world is working, as opposed to clueless drone-politician puppets and even “legendary” investors.

February 12, 2013 at 4:47 am #6912

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I suspect the child abuse scandals are catching up with the person who was running the Vatican’s internal “police” for 24 years before becoming pope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI#Prefect_of_the_Sacred_Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith:_1981.E2.80.932005

Here, in Victoria, Australia, at least 50 boys who were abused went on to commit suicide later on in life.

https://www.theage.com.au/victoria/churchs-suicide-victims-20120412-1wwox.html

When I think that I – as a 10 year old – spent some months in a Brothers school in Northern Ireland, I get the shivers.

February 12, 2013 at 1:23 pm #6913

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This article has since appeared in my local paper:

“Ratzinger was behind great Catholic cover-up”
https://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/ratzinger-was-behind-great-catholic-coverup-20130212-2e9jb.html

Now that I have had a little time to think about it, I am beginning to wonder whether it has anything to do with MontePaschi. The point is that Italian politics, the catholic church, big business and mafia have a good deal of overlap.

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906004578291813964318642.html

Let’s not forget what happened to “God’s banker” in London in 1982:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150546/Why-Im-sure-Mafiosi-hanged-father-Blackfriars-Bridge-large–London.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi

February 12, 2013 at 10:46 pm #6916

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Still, these things have never mattered before, and while media now puts them on display, the population is still turning to [strike]religion and church[/strike] *ahem* “spirituality” *ahem* in greater and greater numbers, while the anti-“the other guy’s religion” sentiment is rising and it will force the church into taking position in the inevitable cleansing.
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