Middle East Focus: Catholics: from Torquemada to Rick Santorum to Bin Laden, Uncle Joe and the Little Corporal……..

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Catholics: from Torquemada to Rick Santorum to Bin Laden, Uncle Joe and the Little Corporal……..

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Juan Cole argues that Rick Santorum is not a good Catholic. He paints him a hypocrite here: “Top Ten Catholic Teachings Santorum Rejects while Obsessing about Birth Control………..“

I hate to use some overused examplse, but here goes a list of bad “Catholics”:

Torquemada was a Catholic.
Adolf Hitler was a Catholic
Joe Stalin was initially trained to become an Eastern Orthodox priest: (close to Catholicism).
Don Corleone (both of them) and Papa Doc were Catholic.
Geert Wilders is allegedly a Catholic (I have wondered if he is not a secret Muslim, possibly like Barack Obama and Pam Geller and Newt Gingrich and Lynn Cheney).
Attila was not a Catholic, although a “Hun” (neither was Genghis Khan).
Ahmadinejad and King Abdullah are bad Catholics simply because they never go to church. Same applies to the mufti Shaikh Al Al Al Shaikh.
No, Osama Bin Laden was not a Catholic, not unless he converted secretly and moved to Abbottabad. (He’d have had to give up three of his wives, and no rotations either, which may explain why there are no churches allowed in Saudi Arabia).