(np) New Pope?

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Lawyer inviter in an English newspaper says, now that he will no longer have Head-of-Soverign-State immunity, he could now be prosecuted. 

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On Feb 12, 2013, at 5:39 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> He was personally involved in protecting pedophiles.  I hope he rots.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 12:15 am
> Subject: Re: (np) New Pope?
> 
> in human interest's interest, let me just say that I do sympathize
> with his health problems and hope he has a nice retirement, full of
> beneficent illuminations, happy memories, and merciful manifestations
> of truth and love.
> 
> like football, Catholicism seems to me fraught with various types of
> excess, contending strenuously over things that to an outsider often
> conjure the reaction "a game not worth the candle", overly rough on
> its practitioners, consuming time and energy that might be better
> expended and glorifying various forms of antisocial behavior while
> proclaiming itself a fount of good sportspersonship - yet I'm not
> immune to a beautiful pass play or run (especially in the absence of
> hurtful tackling, eg, although I guess that's always present in the
> backfield, isn't it?) or the appeal of a stained glass window, the
> concept of forgiveness, a tuneful hymn, a well-wrought argument, a
> tradition of scholarship...
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