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'Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Madrid for a million strong Catholic youth festival after Spain's riot police clashed with thousands of outraged demonstrators, protesting the costly four-day visit
Benedict flew out of Rome around 9:30 a.m. (0730 GMT), hours after thousands took to the streets of Spain's capital to protest the controversial visit, AFP reported. The official cost of the visit, excluding the price of upholding security, has been estimated at around EUR 50.5 million, but many of the protesters say the real cost to taxpayers will be well over EUR 100 million.'
'Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Madrid for a million strong Catholic youth festival after [color=gold] Spain's riot police clashed with thousands of outraged demonstrators, protesting the costly four-day visit
Originally posted by Flying Sorcerer
If "Jeebus" was real do you think he cost people (the equivalent of) millions of euro's to visit them and spread the word of the invisible man???
Originally posted by Flying Sorcerer
... or is the reason for the protests not important to you?
The Pope played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests, according to a shocking documentary to be screened by the BBC tonight. In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety.