Who knew a pope could be this useful?

I actually attended Pope Benectine's 1st Vatican speech, coincidentally.

When Italians have problems then Jesus is 6th man they pray to.

Lenin's Pope Calls Derivatives Market a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

That's the old Catholic thinking. It's all gone, it's all finished.

Lenin's Pope Calls Derivatives Market a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

Who knew a pope could be this useful?

your side has a useful idiot

Lenin's Pope Calls Derivatives Market a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

Who knew a pope could be this useful?

your side has a useful idiot

Sounds a bit sectarian if you ask me.

Some background to ppauper's meanderings:

After House Chaplain Fr. Patrick Conroy offered his resignation at the request of Ryan, the Jesuit priest told the media that Ryan had confronted him about a prayer he gave on the House floor as the chamber debated a tax-reform package. “Padre, you just got to stay out of politics,” the priest reported Ryan telling him. Ryan denies firing the priest for political reasons.

Lenin's Pope Calls Derivatives Market a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

Who knew a pope could be this useful?

your side has a useful idiot

Sounds a bit sectarian if you ask me.

you're calling the pope "a bit sectarian" for attacking derivatives?

your side has a useful idiot

Sounds a bit sectarian if you ask me.

you're calling the pope "a bit sectarian" for attacking derivatives?

No, you're calling yourself sectarian. Like Ryan.

Let’s not forget that Ryan once took issue with another Jesuit priest, Pope Francis. “The guy is from Argentina,” Ryan scoffed a few years ago. “They haven’t had real capitalism in Argentina. They have crony capitalism in Argentina. They don't have a true free enterprise system.”

the chaplain was being passive-aggressive and engaging in party politics. The chaplain is supposed to be neutral, not to be a cheerleader for one side or the other.
Tax changes always create winners and losers.
Under the GOP tax plan, the winners were almost all Americans.
Just about the only people who didn't benefit were the very rich, especially in  blue states because the tax plan reduced an enormous loophole for the very wealthy by bringing in a $10,000 cap on the state and local income and property tax deduction.

the chaplain was being passive-aggressive and engaging in party politics. The chaplain is supposed to be neutral, not to be a cheerleader for one side or the other.
Tax changes always create winners and losers.
Under the GOP tax plan, the winners were almost all Americans.
Just about the only people who didn't benefit were the very rich, especially in  blue states because the tax plan reduced an enormous loophole for the very wealthy by bringing in a $10,000 cap on the state and local income and property tax deduction.

“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Mark 12:17

the chaplain was being passive-aggressive and engaging in party politics. The chaplain is supposed to be neutral, not to be a cheerleader for one side or the other.
Tax changes always create winners and losers.
Under the GOP tax plan, the winners were almost all Americans.
Just about the only people who didn't benefit were the very rich, especially in  blue states because the tax plan reduced an enormous loophole for the very wealthy by bringing in a $10,000 cap on the state and local income and property tax deduction.

The idea of a House chaplain paid for by taxpayers is pretty offensive in its own right. As for the GOP tax hikes, one can only hope that we will get revenge someday. That they are massively blowing up the budget deficit in the process, immediately to be followed by cuts in the social safety net as a partial offset is merely Republican business as usual.

‘Heretic’ in the Vatican

in the old days, people used to say, "Is the Pope Catholic?"
Now they say, "Is the Pope Argentinian?"

‘Heretic’ in the Vatican

in the old days, people used to say, "Is the Pope Catholic?"
Now they say, "Is the Pope Argentinian?"

What kind of people?

Cardinal McCarrick, Bill Clinton’s longtime spiritual advisor, has been charged with the rape of a minor

he's described as the Cardinal emeritus of Washington, D.C., whatever a cardinal emeritus is (retired but keeps the rank?)

from wiki

In 2009, McCarrick spoke at the graveside service of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery and read from a letter Kennedy had written to Pope Benedict XVI.

On July 5, Fordham University rescinded an honorary degree and other honors it had granted McCarrick.