Oh, Father!
i just don’t understand why anyone would pose as a priest - it’s just so damned creepy.
LISBON (Reuters) - A man pretending to be a priest was arrested by police as he prepared to baptize a baby in a small town in the north of Portugal.
“When the man said ‘in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit’ police came in and grabbed him,” a member of the church was quoted by local daily Jornal de Noticias as saying.
A spokeswoman for the Portuguese police said the 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a priest and had several similar arrest warrants to his name.
“We had to interrupt the religious ceremony to identify the suspect,” said spokeswoman Amelia Moutinho, adding that the public prosecutor would now investigate the case.
I started thinking - if the baby had died, he would have gone to limbo! Then my father told me they did away with limbo. “Where did all the unbaptized babies go?” I wondered. “Did they get upgraded to heaven, or sent to purgatory?”
where did the babies go?
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LIMBO! I was looking for that name the other day!
Comment by Vincent-louis — June 26, 2007 @ 3:09 am
I thought the pope did away with purgatory… what are those parish priests doing with that cash?
Comment by apollosputnik — June 26, 2007 @ 9:52 am