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John Byrne
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| Posted: 13 June 2024 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | 1
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Stephen Colbert is to be part of a group of American comedians who will be meeting with Pope Francis as part of a communications outreach. This is the same Pope Francis who TWICE in the past three weeks has been reported using anti-Gay slurs. So, Colbert and the rest of you — WHY ARE YOU STILL GOING?
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Charles Valderrama
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| Posted: 13 June 2024 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | 2
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Colbert is known for wearing his Catholic faith on his sleeve, so it's not surprising he could not pass up the opportunity to be part of this event.
Religious convictions are a tricky thing for some folks.
-C!
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Rebecca Jansen
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We live in a time of vast illogic. Mr. Spock would probably be most fascinated (except during Pon-Farr of course).
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 13 June 2024 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | 4
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Colbert is known for wearing his Catholic faith on his sleeve…••• Jesus had harsh words about those who broadcast their faith.
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ron bailey
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| Posted: 13 June 2024 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | 5
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There's plenty he should (and probably does) have issues with before those incidents, so it's no inconsistency, really.
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Rich Marzullo
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| Posted: 13 June 2024 at 9:31pm | IP Logged | 6
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After having been one for so many years, just so much easier to be an atheist. Religion just complicates people's humanity.
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David Miller
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So many people mistake Francis for an "ally" that he does them a favor with these periodic reminders that he remains in fact the pope, and an 87 year-old man.
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Mike Benson
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If his church wasn’t dying, he’d still be proclaiming my kind was guaranteed a ticket to hellfire. Ally my ass.
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ron bailey
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| Posted: 14 June 2024 at 11:39am | IP Logged | 9
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.. and an 87 year-old man....
Ouch, can we not have it be about age? Besides being just another kind of bigotry, he was of the generation that came of age in the late '50's and '60's, plenty of opportunity to be enlightened.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 June 2024 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | 10
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Apparently not.
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Michael Penn
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I suppose that a "cafeteria" Catholic who picks and chooses good stuff (art, music, charities) while rejecting bad stuff (go to hell, gays! suffer and die, pregnant women!) is for the rest of us preferable to the "all-in" Catholic, if that is the only binary choice.
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John Byrne
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I think I have mentioned before the girlfriend I once had who considered herself a devout Catholic and who had nothing but good to say about the Church. Somewhat more aware of human history than she was, I suggested that she’d met a couple of good priests and sisters and had expanded her experience to encompass the entire Church. (Full disclosure: I actually made her cry. Fire when ready.) Perhaps surprisingly we lasted about four years beyond that. A few decades later we reconnected, at a distance, and one of the first things she told me was that she had left the Church.
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