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You are unelected, have no popular mandate and lack the moral authorityto be Prime Minister.
An open letter to PM James Gordon Brown, aka the snot gobbling trouser pisser an "one eyed Scottish idiot" © J. Clarkson FIDO The Dog 2009
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To thiswe can add that there is not a single document, including the CodexIuris Canonici, in which there is a specific statement that the pope, inhis function as the supreme pastor of the Church, has the authorityto abolish the traditional liturgical rite.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Magisterium - or teaching authorityto which obeisance is demanded and is widely made - dates (in its present incarnation) only from the mid-19th century.
openDemocracy < 2010
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