[kj] (OT) Fwd: Relevant. And Wrong.

[Phillipps Marc]

> >With the death of the Holy Father Pope John Paul II, God's foremost
> >representative on Earth, I began thinking about the lives of some of
> >his illustrious predecessors. The following summaries colour the lives
> >of some the than pious pontiffs Rome has known, through whose holy
> >labours the reputation of that great institution was inaugurated...
> >
> >Pope Stephen VI (896-97) had the body of his predecessor, Pope
> >Formosus (891-96) dug up, dressed in papal vestments, set on a throne
> >and tried for perjury and coveting the papacy.
> >
> >Pope Benedict IX, sodomised animals, ordered murders and dabbled in
> >witchcraft and Satanism. He loved to throw wild, bi-sexual orgies. He
> >was described as "A demon from hell in the disguise of a priest...",
> >and St Peter Damian said of him: "That wretch, from the beginning of
> >his pontificate to the end of his life, feasted on immorality".
> >Benedict went on to marry his cousin and sell the papacy to his
> >godfather, Gregory VI.
> >
> >It was widely rumoured that the ex-pirate Pope John XXIII (1410-15)
> >was an Atheist. He tortured his own cardinals and was said to have
> >"had wicked company with two of his own sisters". Robert Hallum,
> >Bishop of Salisbury said that he: "ought to be burnt at the stake".
> >
> >The homosexual Pope Paul II (1464-71) liked to see naked men being
> >racked and tortured. Alledgedly, he died of a heart attack whilst
> >being sodomized by one of his favourite boys.
> >
> >Pope Anacletus (1130-8) committed incest with his sister and several
> >other female relatives. He enjoyed raping nuns.
> >
> >The Sistine Chapel was built by Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84). He had six
> >illegitimate sons, of which one was the result of an incestuous
> >relationship with his sister.
> >
> >Pope Julius II (1503-13) who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the
> >ceiling of the the Sistine Chapel, was a paedophile and spent much of
> >his time with small boys and male prostitutes.
> >
> >Pope Paul III (1534-49) enjoyed an incestuous relationship with his
> >daughter. To gain control of his family inheritance, he poisoned
> >several relatives, including his mother and neice. He killed two
> >cardinals and a Polish bishop to settle an argument over a theological
> >point. Paul III was probably Rome's biggest ever pimp - he kept a roll
> >of about 45,000 prostitutes, who paid him a monthly tribute.
> >
> >Pope Julius III (1550-55) sodomized young boys, of which one was his
> >own, illegitimate, son. He appointed several handsome teenage boys as
> >cardinals. Cardinal della Casa's famous poem In Praise of Sodomy was
> >dedicated to Pope Julius III.
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