DISQUS

boloboffin · 1 year ago

Thank you. The Pope manages to put together an outfit, doesn't she?

tlsintx · 1 year ago

OT but this seems an appropriate thread for news about attacks on gays.

the NYT article out on Palin talks about one of the library books she wanted removed, even though she hadn't read it...she knew without reading it that it did not belong there...it was titled "Daddy's Roomate" and helped explain homosexuality to children...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/1...

Indigo · 1 year ago

The Vatican claims those slippers are not Prada. They don't look Payless to me, though. Given the elaborate protocol of doublespeak and lingo, gobbledigook and double intentions, let alone the outright backstabbing and misleading promises that make it possible to even qualify for the luxury of life in the Vatican, I have to take it for granted that if there is a gaud and a pearly gate, that when the Vaticanists get there they will hear the Biblical words "You have had your reward. Go elsewhere."

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

They were probably hand sewn and resold to the Pope for more than even Prada. Custom red Italian slippers do not come cheap. They are so manly.

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

Irony, handed to us on a plate. Kind of like when she condemns queers, the hypocrisy is amazing.

Prada wearing Pope condemns love of money and power

Lipstick wearing pigs do fly!

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Chris, that's his penance... an oped about the sins of consumption... he probably needed a new pair of red prada slippers and wanted to get his self "right with god".

vkobaya · 1 year ago

I thought the pope was pretty classy condemning himself to hell. First honest thing he has done during his reign as pope.

sittenpretty · 1 year ago

so true,the OPULENCE of the Vatican is overwhelming,this is Italy where they had CONSUMPTION LAWS i shit you not

mf_roe · 1 year ago

The Roman Catholic Church sprung from the Roman Empire it was conceived as a state religion. It has always supported the ruling elite and condemned the poor to hopelessness. I have no bone to pick with spirituality but I have yet to see an organized religion that wasn't a front for oppression.

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Ok, so I read the article.... amazing crowd... did they pass the plate?

That would be the PERFECT time to do it... a speech on consumption... Ok, now you'll feel a little better if you relieve yourselves of your coins.... come on you can dig deeper...

sittenpretty · 1 year ago

FYI

Ancient Rome
The Sumptuariae Leges of ancient Rome were various laws passed to prevent inordinate expense (sumptus) in banquets and dress, such as the use of expensive Tyrian purple dye.[4][5] Individual garments were also regulated: ordinary male citizens were allowed to wear the toga virilis only upon reaching the age of political majority.[6] In the early years of the Empire, men were forbidden to wear silk[7], and details of clothing including the number of stripes on the tunic were regulated according to social rank.[7] It was considered the duty of government to put a check upon extravagance in the private expenses of persons,[8] and such restrictions are found in laws attributed to the kings of Rome and in the Twelve Tables. The Roman censors, who were entrusted with the disciplina or cura morum, published the nota censoria. In it was listed the names of everyone found guilty of a luxurious mode of living; a great many instances of this kind are recorded. As the Roman Republic wore on, further such laws were passed; however, towards the end of the Republic they were virtually repealed. Near the end of the Empire, the Emperor Honorius (d. 423) issued a decree prohibiting men from wearing "barbarian" trousers in Rome.[9]

dad · 1 year ago

no, you're right.

mother_bottom · 1 year ago

i have never seen a bigger queen than benedict - and i remember liberace, girls. does she really believe that we believe she is straight and gave up the chance to be an active heterosexual in the name of the Lord. some of the most hateful and dangerous people to homosexuals happen to be big mo's -- yes i am talking about you ms. ratzinger (and your queer brother).

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL - sad and oh so funny!!!!

boloboffin · 1 year ago

Amen.

And I heard the other day that Michael Douglas might be playing Liberace in a movie about the palimony case. He's going to get another Oscar!

hrh · 1 year ago

If ever there was a pot calling a kettle black...............

hrh · 1 year ago

Had it on good authority, the lifestyles of the holier-than-thous in Vatican City: gay by day, leather by night.

Maldoror · 1 year ago

Anyone who has ever visited the Vatican also knows that the cafeteria has crappy french fries.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

OT:

the woman mccain claims knows more about energy than anybody else in the US fucked up royally during her charlie gibson interview when she claimed alaska supplies 20 percent of the US energy supply.

Not even close:

They produce 14 percent of the oil, or 3 percent of the energy produced domestically; or 2 percent of our total energy consumption.

Dumb snow hillbilly.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/13/184...

Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago

She meant they upply 20% of Japan's energy supply. An easy mistake to make.

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

As a catholic I can't stand this pope. I didn't like the last one either. I like the little fat pope back in 1963. He was so popular. I remember when I was a young lady visiting my relatives in Italy and the little fat pope died. There was a week of morning. There was no TV. It was so respectful. Yep he was good. We always called him a little fat man.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

,the Vatican is selling off its riches and they're all going to take a vow of poverty. I may have missed that press release

Heavens no...Rumor has it that's why the smiling pope was poisoned. Something about wanting to execute Paul VI's will which had something to do with the Fatima letter that also concerned JP II and most especially the rovian cardinal who became Benny XVI...Intrigue-y!

DonS · 1 year ago

Beautiful Chris, just beautiful.

I still envy your Parisian sojourn. And wouldn't mind cruising around Rome either, thinking of all those nasty, self righteous Papists.

So when has the Catholic Church been noted for practising what it preaches? Not in the last 1000 or 1500 years to my knowledge.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Read "Murder in the Vatican"
http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Vatican-Revolution...

Popes Benedict and John Paul II may have killed Pope John Paul I for being concerned with the well-being of the poor and wanting justice for gay people.