It's all over the news here - Catholics are on tenterhooks - it's anticipated that Pope Benny is about to finally acquiesce to the bleating of Aussie Catholics and give them their own home-grown saint. Presumably it is quicker and takes less energy to telepath prays to a local saint, than those busy foreign ones.
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Aussie Catholics bracing for first Aussie saint
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It's all over the news here - Catholics are on tenterhooks - it's anticipated that Pope Benny is about to finally acquiesce to the bleating of Aussie Catholics and give them their own home-grown saint. Presumably it is quicker and takes less energy to telepath prays to a local saint, than those busy foreign ones.
It's all over the news here - Catholics are on tenterhooks - it's anticipated that Pope Benny is about to finally acquiesce to the bleating of Aussie Catholics and give them their own home-grown saint. Presumably it is quicker and takes less energy to telepath prays to a local saint, than those busy foreign ones.
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First the Olympics, now saints.
Give you lot an inch...
Give you lot an inch...
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So which 2 'miracles' are attributed to him?
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WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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You use it for hanging tenters on.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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Ah! Fucking homeless squatters!Animavore wrote:You use it for hanging tenters on.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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I think Pappa cleared that one up in another thread some time age - I'll see if I can find it.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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Good. If you find it we'll merge this thread with that one.Faithfree wrote:I think Pappa cleared that one up in another thread some time age - I'll see if I can find it.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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Um, "her". Apparently she's accused of curing a woman of cancer in the 60s, fifth-something years after her own death. Talk about a long bow. Not sure what the other one was. Maybe there was only one "confirmed", which is why the decision is up to Benny's discretion.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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I blame Darwin.Faithfree wrote:Um, "her". Apparently she's accused of curing a woman of cancer in the 60s, fifth-something years after her own death. Talk about a long bow. Not sure what the other one was. Maybe there was only one "confirmed", which is why the decision is up to Benny's discretion.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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Blame a few glasses of wine - that was supposed to quote Ani's first post.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:I blame Darwin.Faithfree wrote:Um, "her". Apparently she's accused of curing a woman of cancer in the 60s, fifth-something years after her own death. Talk about a long bow. Not sure what the other one was. Maybe there was only one "confirmed", which is why the decision is up to Benny's discretion.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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Re: Aussie Catholics bracing for first Aussie saint
Here: http://www.rationalia.com/forum/viewtop ... 47#p239147Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:Good. If you find it we'll merge this thread with that one.Faithfree wrote:I think Pappa cleared that one up in another thread some time age - I'll see if I can find it.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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Faithfree wrote:Blame a few glasses of wine - that was supposed to quote Ani's first post.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:I blame Darwin.Faithfree wrote:Um, "her". Apparently she's accused of curing a woman of cancer in the 60s, fifth-something years after her own death. Talk about a long bow. Not sure what the other one was. Maybe there was only one "confirmed", which is why the decision is up to Benny's discretion.Studmuffin Hunkybear wrote:WTF is a "tenterhook", anyway?
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St Ned Kelly ftw!
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Um, "her". Apparently she's accused of curing a woman of cancer in the 60s, fifth-something years after her own death. Talk about a long bow. Not sure what the other one was. Maybe there was only one "confirmed", which is why the decision is up to Benny's discretion.Animavore wrote:So which 2 'miracles' are attributed to him?
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