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

[Tim Bucknall]

Cool!
Thanks Marc!

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>From: "Phillipps Marc" <Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk>
>To: "'Gathering'" <gathering at misera.net>
>Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:14 AM
>Subject: [kj] (OT) Fwd: Relevant. And Wrong.
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>>>>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...
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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".
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Pope Anacletus (1130-8) committed incest with his sister and several
>>>>other female relatives. He enjoyed raping nuns.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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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