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>"Bolivian President Evo Morales has handed the Pope a letter urging him to allow priests to marry. ... also asked ... to admit women to the priesthood."
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>Surely not the first one to suggest this, nor will he be the last... But I still found it interesting.
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>I somehow doubt the pope will be interested.
Christopher Hitchins in a recent magazine article has proposed indicting the Pope and issuing a warrant for his arrest on the charge of being part of a conspiracy to concealing felony child molestations.
There are a number of American Catholics who would probably agree.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
