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displacedvermoter

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13. There are very crazy Latin Massers who

Reply to rampartd (Reply #11)

Thu Apr 9, 2026, 09:15 AM

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might just do him in. I believe that. There are also crazy fundamentalist Christians who have always believed that the Pope -- whichever Pope -- is the Anti Christ, or a minister of the Devil. And now, apparently, the Defense Department has threatened him, and the Papacy.

I would stay the hell away, if I was him.

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