So . . . stories are surfacing that the new pope has banished Cardinal Law from his church.

[Stinky The Clown]

Law is the guy from Boston who actively worked to cover up the rampant child sexual abuse by priests in his crew.

The Church retired him to a church in Rome. When the new pope went there and him, by some reports, lurking, the pope is said to have ordered him out.

Reports are still conflicting, but here's a link to a summary of the several stories now out there.

http://www.stpeterslist.com/asides/report-pope-francis-bans-disgraced-cardinal-law-from-his-church/

[Berlum]

1. Cardinal Bernie - a regular chip off the old Basillica

[Ikonoklast]

4. Bag of shit in a $10,000.00 dress.

Criminal in need of a prison sentence...but even worse, a JUDAS.

[Berlum]

9. Theologians would say his face indicates the "state of his soul." Just as with ex-Pope Ratzinger

[magical thyme]

11. certainly his eyes are the window into his soul.

scroll the pic up so just his nose, cheeks and smile shows, and he looks like he's smiling.

Scroll the pic down so just his eyes show. Yikes!

Same with Bernie above...

[mrs_p]

2. hmm... very interesting

If true, is he trying to clean house?

In an aside - what a weird little publication/blog.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Heh! Yeah, isn't it?

I heard all this on teevee this morning, with little attribution. A few cranks of La Macchina di Google turned up that site.

[mrs_p]

7. With the risk

of too much self disclosure (though, it's the internet, so who really cares), I'm afraid at a very young, naive, impressionable time in my life, I could have fallen into their ranks.

I thank the universe for giving me enough time to grow up and learn to move beyond a narrow, stifling worldview.

[randome]

10. I'm sure the same can be said for many -if not most- of us.

[mrs_p]

6. oops, wrong place

[baldguy]

3. Seems Frank has found his goat.

But will he have Bernie dressed up as a lamb?

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Sounds to me like Francis wanted to avoid photos of him and Law together.

Does not sound like banishment, sounds like expedience.

[Le Taz Hot]

12. So, just to show you how completely ignorant

I am of the Catholic Church (other than it's homophobia and mysogeny), I thought Cardinal Law was a doctrine, not a person.

[hootinholler]

14. They'll be shooting the cannons at each other soon

I was thinking along the same lines and was going to come in and ask "Where's he from?"

I feel deflated now that I couldn't snark at the OP.

[Le Taz Hot]

15. Or dining on the Diet of Worms . . .

[jberryhill]

17. They put Theresa on that diet when they beautified her

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Not to mention avoiding

Cardinal Sin

[undeterred]

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