The Vatican And Its Left-Wing Critics

[scottycelt]

Meanwhile back in the real world ...

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[amateur51]

Meanwhile back in the real world ...

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...9QEwBQ&dur=993

Given the title of this thread, are you suggesting that this crowd is made up entirely of left-wing critics of the Vatican, scotty?

[MrGongGong]

Meanwhile back in the real world ...

The Vatican is many things but the "real" world is not usually one of them
It reminds me of Men In Black....... with a holy Will Smith character who can erase memories

[JimD]

Talking about naivety it has just been reported on Sky News that the liberal President of Argentina apparently wants Pope Francis to 'intervene' in the dispute over the Falklands!

Now that will get the Mandrykan 'left' conflicted.

[Barbirollians]

I have read it all now - did i just read John XXIV described as a nihilistic leftist ???

[ahinton]

Does the fact of sitting on the right hand of God identify God Himself as a leftist?

Sorry - I do not mean to be at all facetious and I ask this (admittedly somewhat rhetorical) question only because I'm utterly sick and tired of all this talk of "left" and "right", especially when applied as attempts are being made to do in the present context. As someone said of my MP (though I do not seek to vouch for the veracity of the observation), he's simultaneously on the extreme left, the extreme right and the extreme centre of the Conservative party...

[ahinton]

I have read it all now

Whilst I'm loath to disabuse you here, I cannot help but fear that you haven't, actually...

[vinteuil]

he's simultaneously on the extreme left, the extreme right and the extreme centre of the Conservative party...

... Mr Eric Pickles, I presume.

[teamsaint]

he knows his onions.

Left? Right?

all stuff from a previous century , surely.

Just us and them now, isn't it?

[ahinton]

... Mr Eric Pickles, I presume.

You presume incorrectly; I am not an Essix boy...

[vinteuil]

You presume incorrectly; I am not an Essix boy...

[ ... it was a joke ]

[ahinton]

[ ... it was a joke ]

OK - then ha ha!...

[scottycelt]

Sorry - I do not mean to be at all facetious and I ask this (admittedly somewhat rhetorical) question only because I'm utterly sick ...

Oh no, not yet another member with a nausea problem ... ?

[ahinton]

Oh no, not yet another member with a nausea problem ... ?

It would indeed appear so - and not only that but yet another Scottish member with one...

[Barbirollians]

Whilst I'm loath to disabuse you here, I cannot help but fear that you haven't, actually...

Pedantry ....