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POPE FRANCIS PRAISED two important things this week: Food and sex.
He took aim at the “overzealous morality” within the Church that denies pleasure, and said it is “a wrong interpretation of the Christian message”.
“Pleasure arrives directly from God, it is neither Catholic, nor Christian, nor anything else, it is simply divine,” Francis told Italian writer and gourmet Carlo Petrini.
“The Church has condemned inhuman, brutish, vulgar pleasure, but has on the other hand always accepted human, simple, moral pleasure,” he added.
That forward-thinking attitude of the current Pope made us think about popes of the past. Without further ado…
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Alright Nicky…..
In relation to the last question, what pope was not a Catholic?
@Peter Roche: I think the coptic Christians have a pipe of their own, so I would guess that is why a Pope might not refer to a Catholic Pope.
@Joe Vlogs: Pope even
@Peter Roche: there are Coptic popes who are not Catholic
@Peter Roche: there are Coptic popes who are not Catholic .
@Peter Roche: orthodox priests are all popes.
Supplementary question… Was St Patrick Irish?
No, when he came to Ireland the second time he was an uninvited immigrant. The first time he was the victim of people trafficking.
@Joe Vlogs: watching too much allo allo he he he
@Peter Roche: I saw it on QI but the pope is not a catholic. The title Pope applies to the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
The head of the Catholic Church is the Bishop of Rome or the Supreme Pontiff. Apparently Pope is not his title.
@Peter Roche: Coptic Christians have a pope. “Pope” in catholic religion refers to papa, italian for father. There are many official titles such as the bishop of Rome but pope isn’t an official title. It was on the p series of Qi.
@Stephen Mcmanus: tell us about the Coptic popes….Sorry, don’t mind me, you already did
@Gordon Davies: uninvited does not mean unwelcome
@Peter Roche: Pope Innocent, was referred to; As the Protestant Pope, after Financial supporting; King William of Orange..
@Gordon Davies: Coptic Church, was here before; Patrick came.
@Stephen Mcmanus: yes but the real question is “do they schitt in the woods?”
@Joe Vlogs: pipe down
@Joe Vlogs: Pipe? So you are saying most popes are stoned?
Actually, this Pope does not live in the Apostolic Palace – he lives in the guesthouse called Santa Marta.
I like to know what has the vatican or any “pope” ever done for Ireland.
A country that suffered horribly for being catholic for a long time because of a sectarian occupation.
How much money, food, aid & resources did they put into helping Irelands people survive the horrors they had to endure through the ages or did they constantly help organise other huge wealthy catholic countries to come to our aid to resist.
The native Americans sent aid to Ireland during An Gorta Mór (starvation genocide), A sultan wanted to send £10,000
While the english were forcibly imposing lethal destitution, exporting 1000s of tons of Irish produce under guard to fat england while those that produced it died horribly the Ottomans sent food ships to Ireland secretly (english tried to block them)
They have mostly been power hungry political corrupt puppets from a tiny number of countries that have never cared about Ireland.
217 of 266 popes have been from the Italy 16 from France, 6 from Germany etc
1 from England (Adrian the asal issued a “B@ll” to fellow English King Henry II, who had petitioned him to invade Ireland).
Typical
@Supes Kz: an gorta mor does not mean starvation genocide it means the great famine – used by irish politicians to camouflage what happened. You are right it was genocide and we have suffered so much as Catholics-. We also remember that the Vatican gave permission for the English to invade Ireland. Not the first invaders but the first to get approval from a Pope
@Supes Kz: the only english pope was called Breakspear
9/10 not too shabby, just went for the most unlikely answers and there you go..religion in a nutshell.
@kjholt: So studying English was less likely than fly fishing? There you go.. comments in a nutshell.
Technically the Pope is not Catholic, the Pope is Coptic because nowhere in the bishop of Rome’s official title does it call him the Pope
8 out of 10 not bad for a proddy :)
I do wanted to press Cavan
What’s a Hindo?
It lays eggs.
@Paul Mc: what’s a dukdo?
7/10
The Coptic pope is not a catholic.
8/10 the last one and the one on where he lives
You scored 4 out of 10!
You are a Protestant
Well I’ll be damned!
@Steve Monk: Being an atheist, I had no difficulty getting 9. It was the fishing that got me.
@supeds kz. First and only English pope sanctioned the Norman invasion of Ireland
@Rob Duggan: No subsequent popsicle has repealed the Bull Laudabiliter or apologised.
@Rob Duggan: Hang on, what about a Dutch King called; ‘ King William of Orange’. ‘Pope Innocent X1 , beatified in 1956, had 150,000 Scudi sent to, King Billy via intermediaries close to the wealthy family of; Benedetto Odescalchi, as Innocent was known before he became Pope. Ironic Catholic Pope Financial supporting a Protestant Army to Slaughter his own Flock. On receiving the most welcome news of Williams Victory he was overjoyed and there is a small documented record in the Vatican Archives which clearly states that the Pope ordered a; “ Te Deum”, to be sung in the Basilica of St. Peter’s in Thanksgiving for the great Victory of his Ally on ; “ The green grassy slopes of the Boone”
@Rob Duggan: With the backing of; Vatican, the Pope at that time wrote a ; Fatwah for the English King to; “ Go and Chastise the; Heathen Irish’ . Because the Irish Clergy would not go along with the; ‘Rule of Celibate Clergy’, hence family names today such as; McTaggert – ‘Son of the priest’, Cleary- in Irish means- ‘ Son of the cleric’ , and others that just don’t come to mind now.
@ÓDuibhír Abú: McAnaspeig means “Son of the Bishop”—–Apparently they were at it too!
Got 8/10. My knowledge of the mafia is now secured.
Wondering who answered that the Pope lives in Cavan
Follow the shoe! No, follow the gourd!
Poorly researched.
The current Pope doesn’t live in the Apostolic Palace.
Also the College of Cardinals doesn’t elect the pope, the eligible members do, which isn’t the same thing.
@Phillip O’Brien: you are technically right .. if a little smug…
Francis is a decent skin
@Paul Whitehead: I suppose in a quiz situation the correct answer isn’t an option in some of the questions and that’s kind of lazy question setting rather than smugness.
Yeah you can be the side effect
I’d rather be the dope
My name is Francis
Dopey questions.
@Caoimhín Ó Seanáin: No, Popey questions
Ye missed the female pope !!!
Who decides everything is “ Toxic “ if it defends the Catholic Church !
10/10… feeling smug
I know they are delusional.
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