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| Monday, 18 April 2005 | ||||
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Like Supreme Court justices, Popes serve life terms. And as with the Court, the people suffer for the diminished skills and abilties of those who stay a little too long. And now the multitudes are migrating to the Vatican in Rome to praise him in his passing and share from the sidelines of his celebrity spotlight their shouts for sainthood. Not to pontificate, or put too fine a point on it, but this Pope was not so holy a father as some will say. Ignoring the incredibly irreverent revelations on his quarter century watch of priestly pedophilia and parishioner payoffs, covert anti-communist CIA co-conspiracies and a host of other unsaintly acts too long to list, when it really mattered to the world, this Pope let the most ignoble act of all pass without more than a dismissive gesture of disdain: the unprovoked invasion of Iraq by the U.S. for purely self-serving economic reasons. Like its powerless political predecessor, the League of Nations, The UN has long been a tool of first world nations for the exploitation and subjugation of the third so its simpering silence was understandable. But by not calling on all Catholics to abstain from taking part in this internationally illegal and immoral act, this Pope rendered unto Caesar when he should have refused him, as he has done consistently throughout his tenure. So lets take a break from the boo-hooing and get back to talking about that other dysfunctional institute we can actually do something about: bad government. alexander graham graham.myexpose.com While mainstream media outlets fall all over themselves to pump up the pagentry of the passing of the latest in a long line of temporary 'leaders' of one of the most popular, powerful, corrupt and hypocritical churches in the world, we in the Alternative Press must note as well that Pope John Paul has left us after a long period of illness and incoherence.
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