oh my...
Originally posted by As romanista2001:
- just some of the horror stories i've read about.......................no need to post the others, the reader can imagine the rest...............
- In 964 Pope Benedict V RAPED a young girl and absconded to Constantinople with the papal treasury. Church historian Gerbert called Benedict 'the most iniquitous of all the monsters of ungodliness.' The pontiff was eventually slain by a jealous husband. His corpse, bearing a hundred dagger wounds, was dragged through the streets before being tossed into a cesspit.
- According to Catholic historian Peter de Rosa in his book Vicars of Christ:
- "Popes had mistresses as young as fifteen years of age, were guilty of INCEST and sexual perversions of every sort, had innumerable children, were murdered in the very act of adultery. In the old Catholic phrase, why be holier than the Pope?"
- Alexander was followed by Julius II who purchased the papacy with his own private fortune. He didn't even pretend to be a Christian. A notorious womanizer who sired any number of bastards, Julius was so eaten away with SYPHILIS that he couldn't even expose his foot to be kissed.
- Pope Sixtus IV charged Roman brothels a Church tax. According to historian Will Durant, in 1490 there were 6800 registered prostitutes in Rome. Pius II declared that Rome was the only city run by bastards (the sons of Popes and Cardinals).
- Fr. Jay Mullin was accused of molesting a boy more than 20 years ago in Boston. Then Cardinal Bernard Law commanded Mullin to be evaluated at St. Luke's Institute. The Institute is a Washington clinic that was profiled in a Boston Globe article of February 24, 2002:
- "Mullin was flown south in 1992 to a clinic outside Washington, D.C. The church-run clinic had a huge collection of child pornography of varying degrees, which ranged from soft porn to hardcore S&M images, all featuring pre-teen boys and girls"
- Devils in the Vatican would come as no surprise to Msgr. Luigi Marinelli. His book Gone With the Wind at the Vatican fairly flew off the shelves in Italy, revealing as it did stories of money-laundering prelates, sex abuse and Satanic rituals performed within the walls of the Holy See.
Obviously, you did not read the article. In those days, papacy can be bought. The pope didn't even have to pretend to be a Christian.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise - for you - is optional.
of cos papacy can be bought
just like church is mega investment companies nowadays
its all abt the money, so goes the song
kekeke
Originally posted by googoomuck:Obviously, you did not read the article. In those days, papacy can be bought. The pope didn't even have to pretend to be a Christian.
Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise - for you - is optional.
Pastor Dong Kee of CHC must be regretting he wasn't born back then...................he would buy the papacy and then try to conquer Europe...............
Though I read articles on Christianity, there are alot of things I don't even dare to read on Catholics. Not meant to be rude to Catholics out there, just that there are simply too many 'hidden' things that are only known in their own circle.