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3. Pell had egg on his face in that debate

Reply to F4lconF16 (Original post)

Sat May 16, 2015, 10:48 PM

May 2015

One passage of that debate was stunning. Pell is one of the hundred or so cardinals of voting age.

That's 100/1.2Bn Catholics +/- equal to one in every ten million catholics.

That member of the very apex of the RCC could not even define what a 'soul' is.

Pell mumbled, fumbled, and ended up saying the 'soul' was the 'essence of life'.

Deeply meaningless. Thanks, Pell.

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