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AlbertCat

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13. "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure"

Reply to rug (Reply #11)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 05:16 PM

Nov 2013

Is this supposed to be some amazing, never-before-uttered insightful statement?

How can it be that it IS news that the freakin' Pope mentions elderly homeless persons?

I find it interesting, the irony that the most obvious of compassionate statements made by the Pope are considered amazing that he said them and it's all new and improved Pope shenanigans.

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"How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure" rug Nov 2013 #11

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