--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of TurquoiseB > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , ffia1120 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > Catholic priests have been molesting girls too, for a > > > long, long time. > > > > In Avignon, I found an off-duty guide at the Papal > > Palace there who agreed to take me into the palace > > when it was closed, and who showed me things that > > they aren't allowed to show to the tourists. For > > example, the secret passageways and staircases that > > lead from the Pope's bedroom to the bedrooms of his > > mistresses. Plural intentional. > > Which pope are you talking about? Sometimes you remind > me of a spiritual Forrest Gump. Maharishi, Rama, Castaneda, > the Pope.. You were there.
LOL. I've never met a Pope in this life, but if my past-life memories are accurate (and I don't really know), then I probably met this one. I don't remember offhand what his name was, but he was one of the Avignon Popes, during the period in the Middle Ages in which the seat of the Roman Church moved away from Rome and several Popes lived in Avignon, France. It was a strange and troubled time for the Church. These were the guys who invented the Inquisition. The Pope in question (the one who housed his mistresses in the Palais des Papes) also was known to participate *personally* in the torture of heretics being done in the basement of the palace. Go figure. Only met Castaneda once, almost by accident. He had a fun story about meeting the Pope, though. He was on a book-signing tour in Europe, and his agent had arranged beforehand that he'd have a short audience (in a small group of people, not alone) with the Pope. Carlos told don Juan about this before he left, and asked whether don Juan thought he should kiss the Pope's ring. (All of this is the story that CC told that night, BTW...I don't know whether it's true.) Anyway, Carlos was having problems with this, because he'd been brought up by a lapsed-Catholic Uncle, and didn't feel positively about the Church. According to CC, don Juan told him that he should *definitely* kiss the ring. Upon his return to Mexico, CC said that he met with don Juan and the first thing he asked was whether he'd kissed the ring. Carlos said No, that he had not been able to bring himself to do it. At that point don Juan laughed and said, "Oh, you really should have done it. You never KNOW what might work for you. You passed up an opportunity to find out." :-)
