# Is the Pope Catholic? Jerome Corsi questions this Pope's Catholicism
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 19, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209 "2013-09-19T04:47:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/101 "2013-12-02T13:14:12Z")
In those days and in the US… in other countries, yes. You guys apparently didn’t get an altar girl until the 1970s.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/102 "2013-12-02T14:52:38Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> You of all people should know it’s altar, then.
He means he’s transsexual.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/103 "2013-12-02T15:40:31Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> John Mace: former, pre-Vatican II alter boy.
First you get down on your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
Bow your head with great respect, and
Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Do whatever steps you want if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff
Everybody say his own
Kyrie Eleison
Doin’ the Vatican Rag!
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/104 "2013-12-02T16:35:07Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> First you get down on your knees
> Fiddle with your rosaries
> Bow your head with great respect, and
> Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
> Do whatever steps you want if
> You have cleared them with the Pontiff
> Everybody say his own
> Kyrie Eleison
> Doin’ the Vatican Rag!
Oh, I can think of some updated lyrics for that song!!
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/105 "2013-12-02T17:28:20Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Oh, I can think of some updated lyrics for that song!!
Share! Share!
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/106 "2013-12-02T18:23:23Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> OK. Let’s see you do the _Suscipiat_.
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> (For some reason, that was always harder than the much longer _Confiteor_.)
Suscipiat…dominus…sacri something
manibus tuis…
utilitatem quoque nostrum
totiusque ecclesiae suae sanctae
or something like that.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/107 "2013-12-02T18:40:08Z")
> [@jsc1953](#):
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> Suscipiat…dominus…sacri something
> manibus tuis…
> utilitatem quoque nostrum
> totiusque ecclesiae suae sanctae
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> or something like that.
E pluribus unum, res ipsa loquitur, non illegitimi carborundum, coitus interruptus, Amen.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/108 "2013-12-02T19:00:28Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Share! Share!
I’m sure you have a sufficiently vivid imagination that you don’t need me to lead you there.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/109 "2013-12-02T19:35:04Z")
In other news, Rush Limbaugh today said Francis’ latest speeches are “pure Marxism”. I’m sure Francis cares a heap about that.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/110 "2013-12-02T20:01:43Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#):
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> In other news, Rush Limbaugh today said Francis’ latest speeches are “pure Marxism”. I’m sure Francis cares a heap about that.
To the pure, all things are pure! 🙂
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/111 "2013-12-02T23:35:30Z")
[Tea Party activist Jonathan Moseley: “Jesus Christ is weeping in Heaven” over pope’s criticism of capitalism.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/tea-party-activist-jesus-christ-is-weeping-in-heaven-over-popes-criticism-of-capitalism/)
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/112 "2013-12-03T00:10:24Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#):
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> In other news, Rush Limbaugh today said Francis’ latest speeches are “pure Marxism”. I’m sure Francis cares a heap about that.
[Catholics In Alliance For The Common Good start a petition denouncing Limbaugh.](http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/02/catholics-join-dump-rush-movement-petition-denouncing-limbaugh.html)
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/113 "2013-12-03T01:22:30Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Tea Party activist Jonathan Moseley: “Jesus Christ is weeping in Heaven” over pope’s criticism of capitalism.](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/tea-party-activist-jesus-christ-is-weeping-in-heaven-over-popes-criticism-of-capitalism/)
Cuz Jesus was all about the laissez-faire capitalism.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/114 "2013-12-03T01:27:17Z")
[Pope prays for victims of sex abuse.](http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1305047.htm)
> [@](#):
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> “Like fathers, find the necessary time to welcome (your priests) and listen to them, every time they ask. And do not forget to go out to meet those who do not approach you; some of them unfortunately have fallen short of their commitments. In particular, I want to express my compassion and assure my prayers to all victims of sexual abuse and their families; I ask you to continue to support them along their painful path of healing, undertaken with courage,” the pope said.
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> It was Pope Francis’ most explicit reference to clerical sex abuse, in public or in a statement released by the Vatican, since his election in March.
Let’s see what Rush does with that!
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/115 "2013-12-03T01:29:40Z")
You know, there has long been something of a LW or social-progressive tradition within Catholicism – though usually tending less to socialism than to [distributism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism).
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### Author:  [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/116 "2013-12-03T13:59:16Z")
[CNN’s article about Rush](http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/02/rush-limbaugh-vs-the-pope/?hpt=hp_t3)
> [@](#):
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> Limbaugh, who is not Catholic, said he admires the faith “profoundly.” He admired Pope Francis as well, “up until this,” Limbaugh said.
Wow, I can’t imagine that the man with a $400 million contract\* liked the Pope up to the point where he started talking about the evils of money and how we need the rich to give it away, not spend it. Shocker.
\*[Rush Limbaugh - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_limbaugh#The_Rush_Limbaugh_Show)
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/117 "2013-12-03T19:00:21Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#):
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> In other news, Rush Limbaugh today said Francis’ latest speeches are “pure Marxism”. I’m sure Francis cares a heap about that.
That was pretty cool, in a self serving attention whoring make shit up OMG what a retard sort of way. Ya know, what Rush always does anyway
Jesus himself said a lot of Commie crap about helping the poor, not putting wealth ahead of people, and some uhhh stuff about the eye of a needle and a camel (post 113).
Jeebus hates Amurrica! He hates our freedumbs! He’s a Commie Pinko! He’s a librul! 😃
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/118 "2013-12-03T19:02:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Pope prays for victims of sex abuse.](http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1305047.htm)
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> Let’s see what Rush does with that!
Maybe he will spin it so child abuse is a basic contsitutional right of all rich fat white cigar chomping oxycontin popping shit spewing pigs?
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### Author:  [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-pope-catholic-jerome-corsi-questions-this-popes-catholicism/669209/119 "2013-12-03T21:50:41Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Pope prays for victims of sex abuse.](http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1305047.htm)
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> > [@](#):
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> > “Like fathers, find the necessary time to welcome (your priests) and listen to them, every time they ask. And do not forget to go out to meet those who do not approach you; some of them unfortunately have fallen short of their commitments. In particular, I want to express my compassion and assure my prayers to all victims of sexual abuse and their families; I ask you to continue to support them along their painful path of healing, undertaken with courage,” the pope said.
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> It was Pope Francis’ most explicit reference to clerical sex abuse, in public or in a statement released by the Vatican, since his election in March.
> Let’s see what Rush does with that!
Rush:
"In other news the Pope said ‘In particular, I want . . . sexual abuse and . . . pain . . .’
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