23-12-2014, 12:25 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:I'm really warming to the new guy:Ha! Yes, he is one of theirs now. Pronbably Opus Dei and probably hates the new guy.
Quote:Pope Francis launches blistering take-down of Vatican bureaucrats and their 'lust for power' in Christmas address
The Holy See's verbal lashing came at his Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests of the Curia
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The Vatican's finances are also in the midst of an overhaul, with Francis' finance czar, Cardinal George Pell, imposing new accounting and budget measures on traditionally independent congregations not used to having their books inspected.
I wonder if he was also thinking of Tony Blair when he made these comments...
I'm still finding it hard to see George Pell having a useful role in the church. I'm sure he winced listening to the speech by Francis as he is such an eccelsiastical social climber and careerist paedophile protector and almost everything Francis called out in his Chistmas speech.
Peter Lemkin Wrote:He had better watch his 'back'.....Popes have been known to die of strange sudden 'illness'.....
He eats in the Vatican canteen with the workers. A good move under the circumstances. I would think he would be very careful in other ways too.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.