Topic: Pope meets gay far-left governor of Puglia on first road trip
lagatta
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posted 31 May 2005 03:13 AM
Ha! Papa Ratzi is meeting with the newly elected far-left governor of Puglia, Nicchi Vendola (of Rifondazione comunista - and its left wing at that) who is gay and lives with his same-sex partner, and describes himself as Communist and Catholic.
Puglia is the "high heel" of the Italian boot, in the southeast of the peninsula.
Vendola is greeting Ratzi with the customary honours but made clear that they do not have the same outlook on same-sex civil unions... and probably most other things: Ratzi meets Vendola in Bari.
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Doug
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posted 31 May 2005 03:29 AM
Now the private portion of that meeting would definitely have been something to see!
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lagatta
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posted 31 May 2005 10:59 AM
Radio-Canada 2 (Espace Musique) has just played a (lovely) choral work directed by Ratzi's older brother, Georg Ratzinger, a priest and choir director in Bavaria:
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posted 31 May 2005 03:13 AM
