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The Catholic Church has dismissed Halloween as a pagan night of “terror, fear and death”. “Terror, fear and death” sounds more like the Jesuit (Catholic) Inquisition to me.
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Okay, Israel has officially lost it. I will quote liberally from this story in Ha’aretz because it merits it so much:
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Some serious reporting going on over here in Italy:
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Newly ordained priests lay face down as they pray during a ceremony lead by Pope Benedict XVI, inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, May 3, 2009. The pontiff ordained 19 new priests.
