# Our Catholic cardinal: open mouth, insert foot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 18, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-catholic-cardinal-open-mouth-insert-foot/353117 "2006-04-18T03:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-catholic-cardinal-open-mouth-insert-foot/353117/21 "2006-05-12T16:33:47Z")
[QUOTE=UncleBeer] And now convicted. The jury “deliberated” for all of _four_ minutes. Father Robinson spoke not a single word in court - not during the trial, nor after the verdict when the judge gave him an opportunity. What a lovely, lovely man. [/QUOTE] Actually, your link says deliberations took 6 hours. What took 4 minutes was the reading of the verdict, the judge issuing the sentence, and removal of the defendent from the courtroom. It doesn’t change the rightness of the verdict they reached, but it paints a different picture of the degree of care they put into arriving at it than what your misinterpretation portrays. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-catholic-cardinal-open-mouth-insert-foot/353117/22 "2006-05-12T16:51:27Z")
Misinterpretation? Not so much. Mistake? More appropriate. I didn’t actually read that article that closely. Rather, I relied on the local news broadcast last night which where it was said that deliberations were “shockingly brief” and then mentioned that “it was all over in four minutes.” My apologies for any mistaken impression I may have conveyed. I failed to thoroughly research my statements before posting. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-catholic-cardinal-open-mouth-insert-foot/353117/23 "2006-05-13T02:44:10Z")
> [@](#): > > From [DiarioLibre.com](http://DiarioLibre.com) > A su juicio, esas son personas que "viven como los animales que le faltaron dos patas, simplemente. _In his judgement, those are people who “simply live like the animals that were missing two legs”_ You’re right, doña **Mighty** , it doesn’t make a heap o’ sense in Spanish either. Who were those animals that were missing two legs at some point in the past and thus turned to debauchery? I guess he was really trying to say “they live like they’re animals, except that they walk on two legs”, but that would have been correctly _“viven como si fueran animales que sólo caminan en dos patas”_. So not only is he an assmiter, he apparently has a W.Bushian talent for mangling his verbal expression. The (former) Cardinal and his successor as Metro. Arch. of San Juan just have a rep as intellectual lightweights chosen just so Rome could put in a (1) ethnic Puerto Rican who (2) would do no theological boat-rocking. I think I don’t feel so bad about them… (But what is it with religious leaders in our islands – your Cardinal, our FundiEvangelists – claiming that all “immorality” is an “American or European” import of debauchery? Way to enable denial of responsibility, dudes! What, the US Marines sailed an LHA-class ship full of Penthouse Pets into Mayagüez, or the Brits airdropped the Queen’s Own Queers Regiment outside Puerto Plata, while we stood defenseless?) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-catholic-cardinal-open-mouth-insert-foot/353117/24 "2006-05-13T03:50:41Z")
[QUOTE=JRDelirious] (But what is it with religious leaders in our islands – your Cardinal, our FundiEvangelists – claiming that all “immorality” is an “American or European” import of debauchery? Way to enable denial of responsibility, dudes! What, the US Marines sailed an LHA-class ship full of Penthouse Pets into Mayagüez, or the Brits airdropped the Queen’s Own Queers Regiment outside Puerto Plata, while we stood defenseless?) [/QUOTE] Well, any intelligent biped knows that we Latinos from the Caribbean are perfectly incapable of anything inmoral. I have it as a matter of fact that nobody has sex around these here parts. We reproduce by mitosis. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-catholic-cardinal-open-mouth-insert-foot/353117/25 "2006-05-13T13:20:16Z")
[QUOTE=JRDelirious] _In his judgement, those are people who “simply live like the animals that were missing two legs”_ [/QUOTE] Four legs good! Two legs bad! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-catholic-cardinal-open-mouth-insert-foot/353117.md?page=1)