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Chan790

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2. For those that have been paying attention, this isn't a surprise.

Reply to liberal N proud (Original post)

Fri Mar 18, 2016, 09:29 PM

Mar 2016

It's like the fourth time this Pope has demoted someone for acting in a way to show him up or undermine his open-armed unity message.

Most notably, he basically fired Cardinal Raymond Burke by reassigning him to a powerless ministry out of the spotlight to serve out the rest of his career in contemplation of why you shouldn't be a dick and imply your boss is an offense to God. Burke was big potatoes, the highest office-holder in the Vatican from the United States ever.

But...Burke forgot the 1st rule of Cardinal Club: the guy in the white beanie has the authority to point you out and declare "You know what? Fuck that guy." for talking shit about him.

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