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In reply to the discussion: "Pope Benedict’s handsome male companion will continue to live with him" [View all]MadrasT
(7,237 posts)52. It is really disappointing.
But that's DU for ya.
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"Pope Benedict’s handsome male companion will continue to live with him" [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Feb 2013
OP
Aside from the irrelevant possibility that the pope might be gay, such an arrangement would
ladjf
Feb 2013
#76
the Pope's VooDoo Doll.. this link is really way innappropriate, but really funny, sorta
rabid_byter
Feb 2013
#5
this. although I will say most here do not understand higher ranking nuns and priests routinely
bettyellen
Feb 2013
#53
Jumping straight to what you state they are doing "behind closed doors" is a huge leap.
MadrasT
Feb 2013
#51
Did anyone stop and think that maybe a 85yro needs 24hr assisted living?
kenny blankenship
Feb 2013
#33
Really? Any reason why an Archbishop is needed for that? The old pope elevated his personal
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#59
A few points of fact. The man is not a butler, the man will no longer work for Bene but will work
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#57
A personal secretary he elevated to Archbishop in December. Thus, the old pope's personal
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#56
Oh--he's not an elector. He's the guy who is going to oversee the changes the Pope made last week
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#67
What I found interestimg is the "dead hand" nature of these changes, and the draconian level of
msanthrope
Feb 2013
#75
Take another read. He does not retain the secretary in retirment, that is Sullivan's central point:
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#62
I fail to see how this is strange at all. He's 85 years old and probably shouldn't be living alone.
pnwmom
Feb 2013
#42
But the notion that he'd be 'lving alone' is absurd. He's going to Gandalfo, a palace larger than
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2013
#65
I'm not sure it's possible to be a serious commentator and a gossip at the same time.
reformist2
Feb 2013
#47
This would make either a really good sit-com or a really good porn movie (nt)
Jeff In Milwaukee
Feb 2013
#60