Just flipping through the news today I caught a glimpse of a headline that just HAD to be a typo. This is too perfect. I'm sorry the guy died and all, but I can't help but laugh:
Cardinal Sin, leader of 'People Power' movement, dies at 76
I guess this is a comment contest on a name. Go for it guys!
...I'm probably going to hell for this.
Posted by aakaakaak at June 21, 2005 12:39 PMJeez... am I impressed!?!
I go to Google news and enter "durbin", and what pops up but an article by the Warmonger. Very well done, sir. You make the famiglia proud.
Posted by: Nickie Goomba at June 21, 2005 06:40 PMYes, you are going to hell for the Cardinal Sin comment...he was one of the good ones. I'll be praying for you. Ciao
Posted by: Alicia at June 21, 2005 09:06 PMWow, I wasn't execting something about Cardinal Sin on your blog... but yes, he does have an unfortunate last name. Between Cardinal Law and Cardinal Sin, I think he takes the cake.
I, too, am sorry that he has died. I just hope that the current Archbishop of Manila will not be as politically active as this one. Not that I'm saying that religion shouldn't play a role in politics, but in the Philippine government, it seemed as if the Cardinal was a cabinet member to the President.
With the current scandal that President Arroyo is currently under, I wonder what he would have done had he lived. Despite the significance of People Power, I think it indicates something bad about the Filipino people when they are pressing for regime change in this manner, especially when the last one occured only a few years ago which got the current president into power.
Posted by: David at June 21, 2005 09:20 PMThe problem with the current president in power is that they see the president as much too weak on the muslim extremists. They put this one in poser with the hopes of fixing things in the Phillippines, but only managed to provide terrorists with a safe haven from persecution.
Posted by: Jeremy at June 21, 2005 10:07 PMI found the following about Cardinal Sin at News.telegraph.
What a sense of humor! I would have liked to know him.
When he retired in 2003 because of illness (which prevented him from attending the conclave which elected Pope Benedict XVI), he defended his role by saying that "politics without Christ is the greatest scourge of our nation".
He added: "I beg pardon from those I might have led astray or hurt. Please remember me kindly."
Sin's deft wit is likely to live on. He once quipped that the fastest ways of communicating in the Philippines were "telephone, telegram and tell-a-nun"; and he had a sign proclaiming that those who called on him were entering "the House of Sin".
I had heard about Cardinal Sin before. It cracked me up the first time I heard it. It was a case of truth being stranger than fiction. No one around me could seem to get the joke though.
The only thing that beats the name of a girl at my old high school. Here name was Kelly Klit. Everybody kept asking why I was laughing back then too
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Posted by: e at June 22, 2005 12:31 PM