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3/14/2013 12:24 PM
toddcommish
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Blame the American public too.  They've been conditioned to label everybody according to what the media tells them.
3/14/2013 1:44 PM
stinenavy
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Agreed. Americans don't know a damn thing about this guy. The only facts that have been put out are:

He's 76, catholic, speaks latin, lived in an apartment, lived in South America.

Anything about how he's going to act is pope is pure speculative bullshit to fill TV time.
3/14/2013 2:25 PM
swamphawk22
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Speculation is ok as long as it has some grounding.

I watched some of the combine on the NFL network. It was insane becuase they were talking about marginal prospects as well as more mainstream ones.

They seemed to have knowledge of everyone and were trying to apply it to the results of their testing. Again a 24 hour football network needs to talk aobut it all the time.

Analyzing the new Pope is ok as well as needed.

Trying to fit his beliefs in the same box we put American Presidential candidates in doesnt work.
3/14/2013 4:41 PM
rcrusso
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Not my point Peggy. The man is progressive in terms of social justice. He is conservative in terms of Church Dogma. After all the years I have been a member of the Church I would never expect any thing else. You would never be elected Pope if you were going to change dogma. Again of course you feel the need to pontificate on a subject you know nothing about.
3/14/2013 7:21 PM
swamphawk22
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That seems harsh. And of course I never really addressed the issue of the Pope, just the people talking about him.

Well you just keep ranting and maybe one day you will make an actual point.
3/14/2013 9:38 PM
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3/14/2013 10:36 PM
jclarkbaker
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My buddy from Boston (100% Irish) reacted as such, via text:

"Fake Argentinian. He's a ******* Italian!"
3/15/2013 6:48 AM
seamar_116
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Historically many Italian migrant workers emigrated to Argentina in the 19th century to follow the harvest there. These migrant workers were known as "swallows" I wonder if a parent or grand-parent might have been one of the swallows.
3/15/2013 9:49 AM
swamphawk22
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This guy has lived in Argentina his whole life.

Why does it seem that the media, American mass media at least, always wanted to point out that he was of Italian heritage?

3/15/2013 10:07 AM
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well he's Roman Catholic for one
3/15/2013 10:38 AM
swamphawk22
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It just always seemed like they wanted everyone to know that he wasnt "Really" from Latin America. That he was an Italian living in Argentina.

4/2/2013 11:57 AM
raucous
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Now the Pope is considering closing the Vatican Bank since it is riddled (again) with corruption.

He washed the feet of a Muslim girl instead of the peeps at the Vatican.  He refused to move into the Papal Palace, instead he is living in a 2 bedroom apartment there.
He may make a move about contraception and gay civil unions. 

What have they done???? 

They made a liberal Jesuit a Pope. 

I love it.

4/2/2013 12:00 PM
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WWJD?
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