VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, former head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130212.html][img=images/2013/02/pic130212.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Wasn't Pope Benedict XVI just brilliant! I remember meeting him when he was but a lowly cardinal and thinking, isn't he just brilliant! What a great guy!

Lots of leaders of other churches met Cardinal Ratzinger and they thought he was just brilliant too. They asked him lots of complicated questions and he was able to answer them all so convincingly that they all decided to become Catholics. Fantastic!

He's the only pope, in 2,000 years, to give a [url=http://www.platitudes.org.uk/platblog/index.php?entry=entry101224-095109]Thought for The Day[/url], just like I'm giving you a thought just now. Wasn't that fantastic?

He came to Britain and met the Queen. Wasn't that just fantastic? We had lunch together. At first I asked him if he'd watched the Manchester United game on the telly. Then I asked him if he'd seen the latest Bond movie. Neither of these seemed to spark his interest. Then I asked him how his book was progressing. "Ya, Ya let us talk about mein book vich is very interesting, ya." Brilliant! Fantastic!

As we look forward to selecting the best man for the job, and I can tell you now, I'm pretty sure it will be a man, we can be thankful that the Invisible Magic Friend chose Pope Benedict to be Pope. Wasn't he just great? And now the Invisible Magic Friend has changed his mind and wants another best man for the job to be infallible instead. Great! Super!

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