Should we all have to pay for...

[oldspice]

The Pope's visit?

Isn't the Catholic Church rich enough to pay?

Has anyone booked tickets to see him?

[drterror666]

I wouldn't see the Pope in a million years, let alone pay for it.  The Vatican is responsible for so many cover ups, especially when it comes to child abuse, it beggars belief.  I'm an Athiest anyway...

[goldencup]

I think it's disgraceful.  Even a staunch Catholic friend of mine says that the Vatican should sell one of their treasures (it would be a tiny proportion) to finance the trip.

[wjp666]

i have no interest in a child molesting nazi. (there - i said it!)

[Forth Bridges]

i have no interest in a child molesting nazi. (there - i said it!)

Best Quote come form a Preist!

Since the last visit, Morals in UK have fallen, its hope this visit will be able to .. you can see where this has gone...

ejets!

[oldspice]

So I take it that members of the Forum will not be forming a welcome committee??

Now we have one of his sidekicks saying that Britain is a 'third world country'. If that's the case perhaps British Catholics should stop sending their hard-earned cash to the Vatican.

[drterror666]

Third world country is a term we no longer use; it's developing country now.  They can't even get that right.

[smurfboy]

If the Catholics are so desperate to see him, let them pay. I don't see why I should pay out a massive proportion of my income in tax if it's going to spent on a luxurious state visit for a religious zealot who peddles the line that someone like me should burn for eternity.

[oldspice]

For all the fuss they are making about this great honour bestowed on us by his visit - you would think he had travelled from Mars instead of a few hundred miles away.

At a time when the government is talking about slashing benefits to the most vulnerable - taking away winter fuel allowances and making hundreds of thousands of people redundant - it is an insult to ask the British tax payers to fund this visit that could easily be paid for by the church.

Whilst washing up last night - I actually heard a 'sister of something-or-the-other' on the radio claiming that the Catholic Church had done more for human rights than any other organisation. I nearly fell down my own plug hole.

[wjp666]

well said indeed.

[drterror666]

this great honour bestowed on us by his visit

Great honour?  Really?  I think it's about time they sacked the Vatican, sold all the riches and put it all to better use!

[loulou]

Has the pope been ?

[drterror666]

Yes, and I couldn't put the rifle together in time.  Bugger!

[wjp666]

there are a distinct lack of grassy knolls in this country for times like this.

[loulou]

I've always thought popes have real crap fashion sense.