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1. It's a bit obvious Cardinal Bertone is trying cash in on this form of 'patriotism.
   The Vatican has been aware for longer that it cares to admit that it has been aware of the present investigation and been trying to have it's name added to the White Paper for longer.
   One would think instead of trying to get its act together, it should be on top of the list from its very inception.

   Posted By: L Newington Bendigo Victoria

2. Do Scots, Welsh and Irish leaders “celebrate” the anniversaries of their violent subjugation by the English?
   Do Palestinians “celebrate” the day in 1967 when Israeli troops breached the city walls of Jerusalem, illegally occupied it and then declared it to be the capital city of Israel? Of course not.
   So why is a senior representative of the Pope “celebrating” the shameful and illegal invasion and subjugation of the Papal States - a country almost the size of England which had for more than a thousand years led the world not only in religion but in education, giving the world its very first universities, and in every branch of the arts and sciences.
   Garibaldi’s armed thugs fulfilled Cavour’s imperialist ambitions by stealing 99.9% of the Papal States’ territory, without compensation and without the slightest provocation, enabled by Bismarck’s militarism and cheered on by the British government, while the rest of the world looked the other way, despite their pious pronouncements that all nations have the right to freedom from military aggression by other nations.
   To add insult to injury, the Piedmontese invaders even installed their own leader in the pope’s palace –a situation which endures to this day. Not to mention the hundreds of Catholic schools and hospitals, churches, convents and monasteries forcibly closed and other attacks on the church and her members too numerous to mention.
   It’s nonsense to say “troops broke into Rome” as if it was a contested battle, since Blessed Pius IX knowing his troops were hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, ordered them to offer only token resistance.
   

   Posted By: Peter G Thornleigh

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