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Vatican Opens Up about Secret Tribunal

If you haven't seen the story... http://news.aol.com/article/vatican-opens-up-about-secret-tribunal/...

I love how Genocide can be handled at the local level by lay priests, but major things...like spitting out the communion cracker is only forgivable by the POPE....

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Permalink Reply by Richard Mankiewicz on January 15, 2009 at 2:17pm

Thanks for the info.

Looks like the Catholic empire of the soul thinks its puppets have stopped being scared of eternal damnation. Propaganda from the oldest spin doctors in the world.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Gilbert on January 20, 2009 at 9:59am

A coworker and I are LOL'ing at the whole local forgiveness vs. Pope forgiveness issues that you mention, Ro.

So evidently, you can nail little boys, commit genocide, kill your neighbor and bury him in the backyard... and a local priest can hook you up with some sin clean-up... but if you mess with the wafer, you've gotta go to the Pope. And if you're a priest, there are a few other offenses that require his intervention.

You've gotta wonder how people can believe that these types of things come from God.

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Permalink Reply by Goz on January 22, 2009 at 8:50pm

I sure do...

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on January 24, 2009 at 8:03pm

Oh please! I keep deluding myself into thinking that people are becoming more enlightened, only to have my hopes dashed again! Well, at least it's not just the Protestants.... Pope Benedict opening his arms to a holocaust denier as well!