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To: Alter Kaker

So the Popes always bow to Royalty?

Did any American president before Obama?


41 posted on 08/30/2013 11:37:10 PM PDT by ansel12 (Obama-[obamacare] "used to be a Republican idea. There's a governor of Massachusetts who set it up.")
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To: ansel12
So the Popes always bow to Royalty? Did any American president before Obama?

Who cares? What the heck is your problem? It's pretty obvious that this Pope doesn't care about pomp and circumstance -- but then a humble carpenter wasn't all that interested in it either. And as others have pointed out, Francis is hardly the first Pope to make efforts to reach out to Muslims.

If you want another Urban II -- who called for the Crusades -- you probably shouldn't hold your breath. But even then you probably would be whining, because the stated purpose of the Crusades wasn't to exterminate Islam (which you apparently favor), but simply to restore access to Christian holy sites in and around Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims -- a problem that doesn't seem to exist at this point.

88 posted on 08/31/2013 6:45:46 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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