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A Reluctant Pope Finally Scolds His Socialist Buddies at the IOC

A Reluctant Pope Finally Scolds His Socialist Buddies at the IOC

If the Pope doesn’t want to be divisive, he should do something other than lead the church!

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In a classic case of better late than never, the Vatican has broken it’s silence over a Paris Olympics drag performance that mocked the Last Supper.

While Christians around the world were outraged by the open ceremony turning the Lord’s Table into a drag routine, the Pope had been strangely silent.

Had he not seen it?

Did he not care?

Was he busy meeting with member so the World Economic Forum?

Is the Pope Catholic?

Say what you want about the Islamic folk, at least you know where they stand.

I’m not suggesting that the Pope should have gone full Charlie Hebdo. But at least he could have expressed some disappointment. Is that too much to ask?

People in South Sudan are dying for their faith. The Pope can barely muster the strength to say sex is binary.

I get that he’s trying to be inclusive and stuff.

But seriously, he leads a religion that teaches people will be sent to heaven or to hell; that Jesus will divide people into sheep and goat; at the end of days you and I will be classified as wheat, or as chaff.

If the Pope doesn’t want to be divisive, he should do something other than lead the church!

My local cafe is looking for a barista who can make flat whites all day long without saying boo about anything to anyone. But I digress.

A pensive Vatican put out a press release last night saying …

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