Why did the Pope get dug up?

CharlesHaughey

Does anyone know why? Can remember hearing it on the news a couple of weeks ago.

Kevin Duffy

To get to the other side. Badum-tish.

later12

Rituals like this are a grave secret. The Vatican does not delve into it. I'm sure if you dig deeper you could unearth something.

TheZohanS

He wasn't buried atall atall, he was on MTV Crypts the other week.

staker

You lookin to get dug up too OP?:pac:

Cookie_Monster

zombie pope, just like jesus...

Biggins

CharlesHaughey wrote: »

Does anyone know why? Can remember hearing it on the news a couple of weeks ago.

It was part of some sainthood ritual.

Aldebaran

Some schoolkid claimed that before he was Pope he was actually a bloodthirsty pirate and that she could prove it if they dug him up and discovered he had a prosthetic silver tongue or something.

admiralofthefleet

new lead in the search for maddie

baldbear

John Paul is on the road to become a Saint. Some nun prayed to him and got her Alzeimers or Parkinsons cured. Fairly convenient if you ask me.
The Polish people loved it and were very pr=oud but i think it's a scam.

It sounds very much like a Zombie movie, digging up a body and parading it. Weird but i suppose thats the catholic church for ya. They even had a veil of his blood taken!!!!

krudler

someone wanted to finally find out that "popes in a volkswagen" joke and needed an extra hat

mlumley

Cos he wanted to come back as a alter boy to see what it was like.

bonerm

CharlesHaughey wrote: »

Does anyone know why? Can remember hearing it on the news a couple of weeks ago.

They heard there was a fella going round dancing on peoples graves ... but then you'd know more about that than I.

My name is URL

Don't think he was ever buried in the first place.. just wheeled into a marble chamber and taken out when the beeper went off.

It's all very tasteful

Ghost Buster

CharlesHaughey wrote: »

Does anyone know why? Can remember hearing it on the news a couple of weeks ago.

Because religions do weeeeeeeird stuff:eek:

cesc77

Hes been turning on thon grave like a top since the vatican said that there might be aliens afoot so they whipped him out to plump his cushioned(?)pillow for him.

that and looking for loot buried with him.Dire straits at the mo

brummytom

He was beatified on the 30th April I think, possibly 1st May.


I was in Rome at the time. Saw a monk buying a JP2 calendar. The look of sheer joy on his face was great. And nuns buying nail varnish at a market stall. What do nuns need nail varnish for?!

Biggins

brummytom wrote: »

...And nuns buying nail varnish at a market stall. What do nuns need nail varnish for?!

Maybe it was nuns of this calibre???
* http://www.thejournal.ie/monastery-closed-following-lap-dancing-nun-performance-143854-May2011/

POPE BENEDICT XVI has ordered the closure of a monastery in Rome amidst concern at the “questionable behaviour” of the monks – which included hosting the special performance of a lap dancer-turned-nun.

The monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, which holds some of the Catholic Church’s most prized relics, is being closed because of “financial and liturgical irregularities”, a spokesman for the Vatican told the Daily Telegraph. Twenty Cistercian monks will be transferred to other monasteries in Italy.

In recent years, the monks had enjoyed visits by Madonna and Gloria Estefan. But for many, the highlight of their time at Santa Croce will no doubt have been the 2009 visit of Anna Nobili, a former exotic dancer and striptease artist, who became a nun.
Calling herself a “ballerina for God”, the nun performed a special dance with a wooden crucifix for the monks.
The monks’ appetite for the finer things in life wasn’t limited to such cultural diversions. They also ran a gift shop which sold honey, jam and organic fruit and vegetables. Unfortunately, their book-keeping practices proved as unorthodox as their lifestyle, and the shop got into financial difficulties.

Father Ciro Benedettini, a Vatican spokesman, said the monks had been guilty of “financial irregularities and liturgical abuses”.
“Their lifestyles were not in keeping with what one would expect of monks,” he said. It was very rare for the Pope to order the closure of a monastery, he added.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpuYQo1Tvc

ejmaztec

He was decrypted by Dan Browne.

cosmicfart

This is a 'Popeless' thread ffs

jimmyw

Did you get dug up too OP? Well going by your username:p;)

The Princess Bride

brummytom wrote: »

He was beatified on the 30th April I think, possibly 1st May.


I was in Rome at the time. Saw a monk buying a JP2 calendar. The look of sheer joy on his face was great. And nuns buying nail varnish at a market stall. What do nuns need nail varnish for?!

For fixing the ladders on their tights and stockings of course...... they have such a tight budget,and can't be throwing away torn tights like Irish ladies do.