[kj] (OT) Fwd: Relevant. And Wrong.

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Go and wash your mouth out and say six hail Marys






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From: "Phillipps Marc" <Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk>
To: "'Gathering'" <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:14 AM
Subject: [kj] (OT) Fwd: Relevant. And Wrong.


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> > >With the death of the Holy Father Pope John Paul II, God's foremost
> > >representative on Earth, I began thinking about the lives of some of
> > >his illustrious predecessors. The following summaries colour the lives
> > >of some the than pious pontiffs Rome has known, through whose holy
> > >labours the reputation of that great institution was inaugurated...
> > >
> > >Pope Stephen VI (896-97) had the body of his predecessor, Pope
> > >Formosus (891-96) dug up, dressed in papal vestments, set on a throne
> > >and tried for perjury and coveting the papacy.
> > >
> > >Pope Benedict IX, sodomised animals, ordered murders and dabbled in
> > >witchcraft and Satanism. He loved to throw wild, bi-sexual orgies. He
> > >was described as "A demon from hell in the disguise of a priest...",
> > >and St Peter Damian said of him: "That wretch, from the beginning of
> > >his pontificate to the end of his life, feasted on immorality".
> > >Benedict went on to marry his cousin and sell the papacy to his
> > >godfather, Gregory VI.
> > >
> > >It was widely rumoured that the ex-pirate Pope John XXIII (1410-15)
> > >was an Atheist. He tortured his own cardinals and was said to have
> > >"had wicked company with two of his own sisters". Robert Hallum,
> > >Bishop of Salisbury said that he: "ought to be burnt at the stake".
> > >
> > >The homosexual Pope Paul II (1464-71) liked to see naked men being
> > >racked and tortured. Alledgedly, he died of a heart attack whilst
> > >being sodomized by one of his favourite boys.
> > >
> > >Pope Anacletus (1130-8) committed incest with his sister and several
> > >other female relatives. He enjoyed raping nuns.
> > >
> > >The Sistine Chapel was built by Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84). He had six
> > >illegitimate sons, of which one was the result of an incestuous
> > >relationship with his sister.
> > >
> > >Pope Julius II (1503-13) who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the
> > >ceiling of the the Sistine Chapel, was a paedophile and spent much of
> > >his time with small boys and male prostitutes.
> > >
> > >Pope Paul III (1534-49) enjoyed an incestuous relationship with his
> > >daughter. To gain control of his family inheritance, he poisoned
> > >several relatives, including his mother and neice. He killed two
> > >cardinals and a Polish bishop to settle an argument over a theological
> > >point. Paul III was probably Rome's biggest ever pimp - he kept a roll
> > >of about 45,000 prostitutes, who paid him a monthly tribute.
> > >
> > >Pope Julius III (1550-55) sodomized young boys, of which one was his
> > >own, illegitimate, son. He appointed several handsome teenage boys as
> > >cardinals. Cardinal della Casa's famous poem In Praise of Sodomy was
> > >dedicated to Pope Julius III.
> >
> >
> >
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