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Pope groomed by online pontiff-phile who pretended to be God

Benedictum non sanctum‘Every day he would issue me with commandments – though most of them involved me sending him saucy photos – and at the time it all seemed very convincing.’

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Posted: Feb 9th, 2011
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Referees join Catholic Church in protest at female linesmen

Peace. Off.Seven top-flight referees and one fourth official have become Catholic bishops in protest at the admission of female linesman to the English Premier League.

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Posted: Jan 25th, 2011
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Pope withdraws from UK at last minute

Pope Benedict XVI last night pulled out of the UK ‘just in time’, leaving both himself and the nation’s Catholics in a state of high excitement.

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Posted: Sep 20th, 2010
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Vatican announces zero-tolerance approach to paedophilia publicity

Vatican simply exorcising its rights‘It is unnatural and unforgivable to publish these kinds of stories. The whole thing makes me sick.’

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Posted: Sep 12th, 2010
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Chilean miners send letters, thoughts on moral relativism to loved-ones

it's a bit like hell down thereAs hopes rise for an earlier-than-expected rescue, the thirty-three miners trapped 700 metres below the surface in the San José copper-gold mine in northern Chile sent messages of love, hope, and meta-ethics to their families and friends above.

Raúl Enrique Bustos Ibáñez, one of the miners who has been trapped in the mine since the roof collapsed on August 5th, wrote, ‘My dearest wife, I am healthy, and thinking of you always. When I return to you, I will be the same husband no matter what I might have done down here in the mine. What we may or may not have done underground cannot be judged by the standards of up there. In any case, we have all agreed that what happens in the mine, stays in the mine, so let’s just leave it at that.’

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Posted: Aug 31st, 2010
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