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  1. 4 points
    Will he be known in future as Ex-Benedict?
  2. 4 points
    I raise your Len with a Dougal.......
  3. 3 points
    There's even a picture
  4. 2 points
    No, I doubt they would care less about that. It is more likely to do with the ongoing political war between Ratzinger's Secretary of State, Berscone and his hard right rivals, led by Sodano. Things like the butler trial and that weird threat/statement that was exposed that Ratzinger would be dead by November 2012 are all part of the murky trail, methinks. Agreed or, putting it a bit more eloquently, here is a statement from Irish abuse survivors: ******* One of the organisations representing victims of Catholic clergy in Ireland's notorious orphanages and industrial schools said today that survivors would not miss Pope Benedict, reports Henry McDonald from Dublin. Irish Survivors of Child Abuse said the outgoing pope had broken all his promises to offer them some semblance of justice for the crimes of priests and other members of religious orders in Ireland. John Kelly, one of the founders of Irish Soca and a former inmate at Dublin's notorious Artane Industrial School which was run by the Christian Brothers, said Pope Benedict had resisted their demands to properly investigate and in some instances disband religious orders tainted by sexual and physical abuse. Speaking in Dublin, Kelly said: "In our view we were let down in terms of promises of inquiries, reform and most importantly of all the Vatican continuing not to acknowledge that any priest or religious bodies found guilty of child abuse would face the civil authorities and be tried for their crimes in the courts. "I'm afraid to say Pope Benedict won't be missed as the Vatican continued to block proper investigations into the abuse scandals during his term in office. Nor are we confident that things are going to be different because of all the conservative Cardinals he appointed. For us, he broke his word." The verbal assault on the Vatican would have been unthinkable right up to the early 1990s when successive Irish governments were terrified of challenging the Catholic church's authority because of fears of a backlash from pulpits across Ireland. ******* :(
  5. 2 points
    What about the flat lining season?
  6. 2 points
    Six Popes gone but I live on doo dah, doo dah. Six Popes gone but I live on all the doo dah day.
  7. 2 points
    Were you his former chauffeur by any chance?
  8. 2 points
    And Harry Redknapp has already been linked with the job in Rome...
  9. 1 point
    That report is nearly a year old you twat.
  10. 1 point
    A Romanian arrives in London as a new immigrant to the United Kingdom. He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, "Thank you Mr. Englishman, for letting me come into this country, giving me housing, Income Support, free medical care, and a free education!" The passerby says, "You are mistaken, I am Egyptian." The man goes on and encounters another passerby. "Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in England." The person says, "I not English, I am a Pakistani." The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, "Thank you for wonderful country England!" That person puts up his hand and says, "I am from Afghanistan. I am not British." He finally sees a nice lady and asks, "Are you an Englishwoman?" She says, "No, I am from Africa." Puzzled, he asks her, "Where are all the English?" The African lady checks her watch and says, "Probably at work."!!!
  11. 1 point
    i have two lists, one of people i think will die....one of people i want to die...Benny is along with Anita Bryant and Fred Phelphs on the list of people i want to die as painfully as possible......and if that makes me a bad person...i can live with it
  12. 1 point
    From Craggy Island to The Vatican
  13. 1 point
    Hmmmmm, a successor perhaps?
  14. 1 point
    The news is out of nowhere but at the same time not really surprising given his frailty and demanding position. I guess trying to figure out how that Twitter thing works was the straw on the camel's back.
  15. 1 point
    Forget biopic I am thinking event theatre. You have the basic play about the disappearance of LL and then right at the end an old bloke in the audience with a bushy moustache stands up and says "Absolute Rubbish, what really happened was..." at which point the theatre doors crash open and the old bloke is dragged roughly away by half a dozen police officers, the lights come up and the cast shuffle off the stage. Cameron MacKintosh can contact me anytime.
  16. 1 point
    New Chelsea manager you mark my words. Health reasons pfffff
  17. 1 point
    Maybe he wants to spend more time with the wife and kids.
  18. 1 point
    All defendants claiming poor health must be presumed doing a Demjanjuk defense, unless proof of the contrary is supplied, e.g. a death certificate. regards, Hein
  19. 1 point
    I read the Daily Mail, because it reassures me that I'm not that much of a massive cunt after all.
  20. 1 point
    Certainly. A Fiat would be far more certain to kill him.
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