Poe Award? = Pope Denounces Buchanan and Palin for Questioning his Agenda

[Coyotl]

It's THE official ***** Poe Award ****
when the OP poster does not realize the post is likely to have a Poe Award winner in the first reply!
Tony_FLADEM (2,584 posts)
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Pope Denounces Buchanan and Palin for Questioning his Agenda
by Alex Kuzio November 17th 2013 http://www.newslo.com/pope/

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis today denounced conservative icons Pat Buchanan and Sarah Palin, calling their recent objections to his leadership style “confusing,” “hypocritical” and “borderline-heresy.” The pontiff—who was elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church in March—complained that Buchanan and Palin should “look into their own hearts” before questioning his actions, and suggested that they are “simply jealous, having repeatedly failed to be elected to high office themselves.”

Francis, formally a Cardinal from Argentina, was responding chiefly to an article published on Townhall.com Friday in which Buchanan—a longtime soldier in the so-called “culture wars”—wrote that the pope was wrong to move “the Catholic Church to a stance of non-belligerence, if not neutrality, in the culture war for the soul of the West.” Buchanan said he believes that unless the Church remains aggressively opposed to abortion and LGBT rights—as it was under Francis’s predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI—it will lose its moral authority and surrender to relativism.

In a blog post published on the Vatican’s website Monday morning, Pope Francis—who has argued that Catholics should embrace members of the LGBT community, relax efforts to convert atheists to Christianity, and stop being “obsessed” by abortion and gay marriage—responded to Buchanan’s criticism, writing that the former presidential candidate and aide to Ronald Reagan should “reflect on his own opinions” before criticizing others. ................

[FreakinDJ]

1. Catholic Church doesn't believe in the Literal Translation either

Which more commonly is a means to pervert the message of the bible

[Coyotl]

2. kick

[Contrary1]

3. Fox news will be reporting this soon as fact...

Sarah will be offering a rebuttal.

You just know it's gonna happen.

[Coyotl]

4. "Sarah will be offering a rebuttal."

[JHB]

5. Pat liked Benedict better? No surprise. When presented with two living popes...

...Pat goes for the original German.




(hat tip to Molly Ivins)

[Bolo Boffin]

6. I almost posted a fake story about Rafael Cruz (Ted's dad) as real

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024036992

But I went back a third time and checked harder and realized it was a parody site.