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Another Dick*head Cardinal

Winty · 2012-03-04 20:31:50

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, accused the coalition Government of trying to "redefine reality" and claimed the proposals were a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right." In an article for The Sunday Telegraph, O'Brien wrote: "Since all the legal rights of…

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#92 25-02-2013 2:39pm
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Cardinal O'Brien resigned today, following "allegations - which he contests - of inappropriate behaviour towards priests dating from the 1980s".

I hadn't heard of him before today - or maybe I just forgot - but doesn't that put the rest of this thread in context, or what? :rolleyes:

From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut

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