Emperor Palpatine--er, Pope Benedict resigns

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

You're not Catholic, are you?

I was baptized catholic...but no. Mom is goin to hell for that one.

[ZenGum]

Meanwhile, in Paris: [NSFW]

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/top...l#.URsqZPKv-j8

"Feminists", eh? Uhh, okay...

[toranokaze]

So the difference between strippers and feminist is a good catch phrase. Good to know.

[footfootfoot]

what's with the boy shorts and black pantyhose?

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Meanwhile, in Paris: [NSFW]

http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/top...l#.URsqZPKv-j8

"Feminists", eh? Uhh, okay...

[quote=thelocal]
st year members of the group dressed up as nuns to try to sabotage an anti-gay marriage protest in Paris. The women ripped off their 'habits' to reveal comments scrawled on their naked chests such as "In gay we trust" and F##k the church".

They also fired canisters of tear gas at the marchers.
......
Alain Escada, the president of Civitas, said the catholic group would also be suing Femen for spreading a message in a violent manner, organised violence with arms and threatening the freedom to protest of others.[quote]


As well they should be fucking sued for firing tear gas at peaceful protesters. Yes, the protesters are being ignorant bastards, but they have as much of a right to protest peacefully as the cunts firing the tear gas. That is ridiculous and they are hurting the cause the supposedly want to help. Bitches.

I'm not sure about the pantyhose F3, maybe it was so no one would suspect they were mostly naked under the trench coats. If you look at the 2nd pic, there is a logo on their shorts which looks like a white version of their logo:



Edit: Also, my tits are so much more awesome than theirs

[Trilby]

ok, my CRAZY friend who believes in the rapture says this was predicted 900 years ago and the number 11 is significant as 10 is perfect 11 is chaos. She says this is just ONE of the many prophecies that are gonna rain down on our poor unsaved souls and IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT HE CHOSE TO RESIGN ON 2-11-13. AND he is the 111th Pope. Good god, look busy people.

I really quite like the girl. She's just a nutter.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Trilby

She says this is just ONE of the many prophecies that are gonna rain down on our poor unsaved souls and IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT HE CHOSE TO RESIGN ON 2-11-13. AND he is the 111th Pope.

The Pope resigned on 2-13-3735. He was the 157th Pope. Heresy is by those who count using their thumbs.

Everyone knows a thumb is the devil's digit. Often stuck up the ass of a devil worshipper. God's chosen people only count with god's eight chosen digits.

[ZenGum]

Also, he's retiring on the 28th. He just announced it on the 11th.

[footfootfoot]

157 minus 111 = 46
111 plus 157 = 268

268÷46 = 5.82

5.82 pounds is the average weight of a pile of bullshit, so I think Tril's friend is on to something deep. Knee deep, as a matter of fact.

[ZenGum]

Dude, 5.82 lbs is the average weight of a newborn baby. The pope is PREGNANT!

[toranokaze]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

Edit: Also, my tits are so much more awesome than theirs

I ever so do agree.

[Gravdigr]

[tw]

From the Washington Post of 15 Feb 2013:

Pope struggled to lift sacred secrecy of Vatican finances
The arrests over the past six months of Palumbo and the 34-year-old lawyer, Simone Fazzari, highlight one major source of the scandals and power struggles that observers say contributed to Pope Benedict XVI's historic resignation this week - the murky world of Vatican finances. ...

Last month, Italy barred its own banks from doing business in the Holy See, citing a lack of transparency by the city-state's financial apparatus that has routinely declined to release data on accounts held there by church bodies, clergy, foreign embassies and lay entities related to the Vatican. The move cut off credit card processing at Vatican commercial sites including the Sistine Chapel, ...

That followed a series of Italian money-laundering investigations, including one that led to the 2010 seizure of nearly $30 million worth of Vatican Bank holdings kept outside the Holy See.

Evidence suggests the outgoing pope sought to shed light on the dark Vatican books, but that effort yielded even more controversy. The former president of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was forced to resign in May, alleging he was fired for getting "too close to the truth." Last year, other documents leaked by the pope's butler and other sources revealed the depth of the internal tug of war over financial transparency, with Vatican reformers pitted against traditionalists who appeared to believe the church should answer only to a higher power.

On Friday, the pope backed a decision by a commission of cardinals to name Ernst von Freyberg to head the Vatican Bank. ... However, Italian commentators were quick to question why the choice was not left to the incoming pope.

"It seems like an attempt to force the situation, not to leave the new pope an option," said Massimo Franco, author of "The Crisis of the Vatican Empire" ... "I find it quite strange that this is the last major act of the pope." ...

In the 1980s, Banco Ambrosiano, a financial institution largely owned by the Vatican Bank, became embroiled in a money-laundering scandal related to the Sicilian mafia. In June 1982, Ambrosiano's former chairman, Roberto Calvi - dubbed "God's banker" ... - was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge in a death that was ruled a homicide and has yet to be solved. ...

In December 2010, however, Benedict took a landmark step toward transparency, issuing a motu proprio, or papal letter, forbidding money laundering and the financing of terrorism. More importantly, for the first time, he established an independent Vatican watchdog, the Financial Intelligence Authority.

Why would this cause traditionalist to force the Pope out? These traditionalist apparently even ignored rampant pedophilia. Why does Papal reform cause a Pope to resign? Who really is running the Catholic Church? How corrupt is it?

[Trilby]

my friend who is lovely and loving and COMPLETELY crazy uses her own math.

we went to school together which is why neither of us can do math.


when we were in 6th grade we were both in love with the same band and we wrote a 6th grade version of a porno novel involving our fave band.

And no, I won't tell you said band's name. But they were Scots. In terms of Loving Hot Scots (Braveheart, Rob Roy, The Diana Gabaldon time travel series, Nessie and Groundskeeper Willie) we were WAAAAAAY ahead of the curve.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Fifty Shades of Plaid.