“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
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Yes there is a new papa and he is an American.
Except he is a South American, from Argentina in fact.
Close but no cigar fasab 🙂
His name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, but now it is Francis I, and he was the surprise choice in one of the fastest conclaves in recent times.
He is a Jesuit and he is 76 years old and, no pun intended, he has one hell of a mess to try to clean up.
In fact the trouble never stops coming.
As the election was getting under way in Rome, an article published on Monday, in the Italian newspaper La Republica, noted that the Vatican paid an estimated $30 million in 2008 for around 20 apartments in the imposing palazzo at 2 Via Carducci.
Not only will these apartments do very little to help the poor and needy in his flock as I guess very few of them could afford even to rent a $1.5 million apartment let alone buy one, but the complex it turns out is also home to Italy’s biggest gay sauna, the Europa Multiclub!
Europa Multiclub, which features a Turkish bath and Finnish sauna, bills itself as the number one sauna in Italy. Open all year, the club also offers weekly “bear parties”, which it advertises on its website with a video of a stripper donning clerical attire.
And to top it all, the housing block accommodates 15 priests, including a 12-room apartment on the first floor of the building for 76-year-old Cardinal Ivan Dias, a socially conservative Cardinal who was the former archbishop of Bombay, who has called homosexuality a disease of the soul. Does anyone detect a hint of hypocrisy?
Red faces to go with those red robes I think.
Good luck Francis, you’re going to need it.
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fasab 
You are bad, but what would we do without you? It was really a quick one.
What was it Mae West said, when I’m good I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better 🙂
“Goodness, Miss West, where did you get those beautiful pearls?”
“Goodness had nothing to do with it.”
She had a good turn of phrase did Mae 🙂
This is hilarious, and something few people are talking about. And you nailed it, pure hypocrisy. The appointment of a South American isn’t very surprising…there are very few corners of the world still falling for this papal pretense. Good piece of writing!
Thank you. Much appreciated.
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