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Thread #75419   Message #1341394
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
28-Nov-04 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: Stupid Qwestions
Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Qwestions
GUEST,heric said:

A guy once asked me if the Pope was Catholic.

Two things here:

That phrase, "Is the Pope Catholic?", as you might already know, is used to mean "Of course!"

But there are extremely, radically conservative Catholics who seriously will tell you that the Pope is not Catholic, on the ground that he and his recent predecessors have abandoned what these old-liners insist are the very essence of historical Catholicism.

Dave Oesterreich