It's another one seen off by Ian Paisley

They'll never be on "du" terms if he talks like that to the boss.

Word is Peter Odemwingie has just turned up in Rome, ahead of a medical in order to become the new Pope - but the Vatican has denied all knowledge of a transfer, so he's sat in his car in the car park!!

At CERN they may have spent billions of pounds trying to find evidence of the existence of the Higgs Boson, but I believe if they allocated the next decade to assisting just me, doing nothing else, I still wouldn't be able to locate my interest in this development.

We (Sky Bet) are actually offering Odemwingie in the next Pope market. 1000/1, same price as Eamonn Holmes, Jose Mourinho and John Terry.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet the short odds favourite, but you didn't need me to tell you that, right?

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No, you didn't, but I might have a sneaky wager on Cardinal Peter Turkson at 3-1

Seems like there’s less & less jobs for life.

He's as big a cheat as Lance Armstrong. The UK should declare him a sham Pope and demand that the Catholic church refund the tax-payers money spent ion his visit a couple of years back.

Vatican smoke signals reportedly going to be rainbow coloured, to match the vibrancy of the clouds and the fabulous rays of the sun.. Which is nice.

Very, very sad news.

Over a billion people continue to be deceived by idols, rituals, the veneration of Mary and works-based righteousness.

It is?
To me it's rather neutral news, they'll just pick a replacement and carry on peddling their dangerous nonsense to maintain their hold over people.


Well, we agree on that at any rate.

So the International Child Molesters Union is looking for a new leader.

The hold the RC religion has over such a large number is frightening.

Purgatory, the immaculate conception, the sacrament of penance - all invented by man made religion.

Agreed.

Indeed.

I even agree with your misquote!

That statement could hold true for virtually all religions - change the name, insert a list of weird dogma and Bob's your immaculately conceived uncle.

Like I have said earlier in this thread, I agree.

There's an awful lot of 'whoooooshing' going on in the last page and a bit of this thread, isn't there?

Does this mean he can now be prosecuted in the US?

I always thought that being Pope was for life, not just for Christmas.

Maybe he was too stupid even for the RC's, losing a few thousand a week is never good for business.

Hold on, that's not in the Guardian. I simply don't believe it.