Raw: Midnight Mass at the Vatican

Pope Benedict XVI presides over Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. A smiling Benedict, dressed in gold-colored vestments, waved to photo-snapping pilgrims and applauding church-goers as he glided up the centre aisle towards altar. (Dec. 24)

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[Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI]

I always look good on television.

[noobtube421]

Popes = Wizards 

[Brian Durham]

He's in his late eighties- he probably can't walk.

[abdullah abdulaziz]

pope eye the sailor man

[ZuZuPaPa88]

This cunt can't walk or what? Why do they need to push him and make it look like he is a bloody king or what.. And by the way everything is covered with gold and he's got a big ass gold ring on his finger.. I like the fact they're talking about GOD and wearing all those jewelleries and being rich as hell and eating nice food and drinking wine etc while people are dying because of hunger in other countries or have no place to stay. There are so many churches but none of them help to homeless ppl.

[CIBOYPRODUCT]

CLEMENT

[NeutralExistence]

He loves me so much, that if I am not careful, I can contract all sorts of medical illnesses from simply eating the wrong food, or breathing the wrong substance! Heck, I suppose Leprosy is a gift when you think about it, who needs their limbs anyways!

So, we are doomed to hell for not believing in Jesus, but to kill the pope is perfectly okay, since we are exercising our "free will"? Did he also allow all these priests to rape the boys/girls that they did, so they would have free will?

[Luisinha castelo branco]

The answer is that God loves you so much that he gives you the liberty of the choice whether to kill the Pope or not. If God "protected" the Pope by some kind of magical process, that would reduce the freedom of the man who wanted to kill the Pope. Hope that helps

[NeutralExistence]

Oh, but he is God's chosen, is he not?

Wouldn't God protect his chosen?

Its not so much about "putting God to the test", as trusting in his will. Nothing happens without God first willing it to happen, he is an omnipresent, omniscient being remember. So if the pope was to die, it would 100% have to be willed by God to happen.

[Leuntenant Zero]

life on line,honestly that wont be wise from a great man such as His Holiness.