Raw Video: Pope Takes Gondola Ride in Venice

Pope Benedict XVI was ferried across Venice's Grand Canal in a white gondola on Sunday during the first papal trip to the lagoon city since 1985. (May 8)

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[Multi0703]

@wwefanworld

Indeed, the Church has become a multi-cultural faith, spread around the globe !

I am proud to be Catholic

[TwinPat90]

@JaimesPhazon That is a blatant lie. The world's population during the Middle Ages ranged anywhere between 265 million in the year 1000 and 425 million people in the year 1500. So, according to your "calculation" the Catholic Church killed anywhere between 35% and 57% of the global population. And that doesn't even count that Black Death, which killed 30-60% of Europe's population during the 14th Century. What people will say to get their point across...

[scotttebben]

The pope is a child rapist apologist. He is pure evil and should be brought to justice for his ambivalence.

[19lfm12]

@MsPandaRosa And you are in Cognitive Dissonance. Have you ever actually studied History? Have you ever read contemporary accounts of these things? Obviously not.

The object of your 'faith' is the Vatican Administration, not God.You make this all too obvious. Yet they are not part of the teaching of Christ: the Gospel.Its true core is the Sermon on the Mount & Beatitudes. This is the core of the Catholic Faith - NOT the Imperial Papacy.

You have no oil for your lamp.

[MsPandaRosa]

@19lfm12

You sound like a Westboro Baptist.

[iknewitalready]

@GuiErechinense

no reason idiocy galore in the religion

[19lfm12]

@TwinPat90 1) Your figures are inaccurate

2) They account only for Europe, with any reasonable certainty

3) We know factually that large numbers of ppl were killed by the Inquisitions in many countries (including the New World!) over many centuries.

4) And then we have the conquest & slaughter 'in the Name of God' against Muslims, Byzantium & Natives of the Americas.

[TwinPat90]

@19lfm12 Of course you can know, that's why it's called an estimation What do you think people pay anthropologists for?

[19lfm12]

@MisheardMusic That is probably true. The Swiss Guard in their costumes designed by Da Vinci are only the tip of the iceberg of Vatican Security. Watch one of the Wednesday Papal Audiences on EWTN....or video clips of them on here. Note all the 'men in black' scattered through the crowds. They have serious military training, comparable to US Secret Service.

One of the priests often seen at his side is a trained bodyguard...full head of hair, thick bull-neck. He would kill for Ratz.

[19lfm12]

@TwinPat90 You have no way of knowing the world's population during the Middle Ages, as most of it was unknown to white men. The Vatican was founded in 325AD & kept Europe in darkness, illiteracy & literal slavery in the Feudal System for 1000 years. During those centuries those who DARED oppose the power of the Church Administration were tortured & killed.

The Black Death was Divine Justice against the Vatican for its many crimes.

[19lfm12]

@WulfBlitzkrieg Even members of the Vatican Press Corps think Ratzinger is gay, from observation of his behavior. But the real problem is his duplicity & hypocrisy. About....everything. He is filled with lies.

In the 60s he was a liberal theological expert at Vatican II; then he magically changed to arch-conservative. So which is he? Neither. He is LIE itself. He will say or do as he pleases, sugar-coated in false piety.

A complete fraud.

[iknewitalready]

@ThatwasTERRIBLE

Rational people reason and think logically; hence they change mind.

But religious indoctrination are incapable of entertaining arguments about its super-natural claims.

Religion does not allow compromise and reason.

If God said it so, the believers are expected to believe the crap.