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Lance Armstrong putting on the yellow jersey after winning the 86th Tour de France prologue in 1999.
Even the Vatican has an opinion on Lance Armstrong.
One of Pope Benedict XVI's lieutenants weighed in on the doping scandal, saying the disgraced ex-champion is just part of a scourge that has infected every corner of professional cycling.
"It's a world that is rotten, all of cycling, even soccer," said Msgr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca Alameda, who heads the culture and sport section of the Pontifical Council for Culture in Rome.
"It's very sad," he told the Catholic News Service.
The monsignor spoke before Oprah Winfrey's interview with Armstrong was set to air Thursday and Friday. Sources say Armstrong admits doping in the two-hour sitdown.
The world won't find out until then what explanation Armstrong will give, but Sanchez noted that others who have admitting using performance-enhancing drugs spoke of enormous pressure to compete at the highest level.
Professional sports "have become a commodity that are subordinate to the free market and, therefore, to profit," he said. "It had reduced people to merchandise."
The news service noted that the pope condemned athletic doping last month, calling it a "dead end."
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So performance enhancing drugs make this world rotten, but if you are a member of the Vatican, money laundering, extortion, rape, pedophilia, and murder are all okay.
I had to jump on a few desks, but I got my health insurance to cover performance enhancers.
Hello riverboy21, I couldn't have said it any better myself. Nice fish by the way, that will get you a few fish filet sandwiches!
I don't believe the Vatican's opinion should rate any higher than these discussion posts. Is Lance Catholic or what?
The Vatican has an opinion on a scandal. the harbour of pedophile priest and denials for decades !
The real scandal is the Vatican, not some guy who cheated at SPORTS ! lets not forget lance made hundreds of millions for cancer research !
so if I had to choose between cheating at sports or raping children ? let me think---- I'll take the cheater...
Yeah, the Vatican seems to have conveniently forgotten those couple thousand pedophile priests they have swept under the rug. The Catholic Church is still the only church in the world that owns their own sovereign country!!! How much would Southern Baptists have to raise to buy their own country in Europe, then build about $4 billion worth of ornate buildings? The pope is the head of a crooked, power hungry cult that passes as a religion.
The pope smokes dope.
The pervert of the Vatican is very sad that he did not butt fuxx Armstong. The pervert also would have taken some enhancing drugs to make him last longer while he was either getting butt fuxxed or giving it.
Child rapists wagging finger at drug using liar. That's rich.
Pretty much.
Stupid perverts. So quick to judge, so slow to admit their own guilt.
And we care what the vatican says, why?
What's really said is that these bums have hidden child molesters within their ranks for years and no one is in jail because of it. The pope is a dope, let's give him the rope.
The Vatican needs to shut up about an adult abusing his own body to win contests. It doesn't come close to the Vatican protecting adults who abused helpless children for their own personal sexual and power gratification. Just in case Pope Benedict and his hangers-on haven't notice, the Vatican does not have much in the way of moral authority or credibility left - and I'm Catholic.
You're Catholic, eh? I have to ask: why? How much will it take to demonstrate to you that there is no god, or if there is one, he's a sociopath?
The Roman Catholic Church standing in Judgement of Lance Armstrong is as ridiculous as a contract assassin judging the morals of a shoplifter.
As if the Catholic Church has any room to talk when it comes to scandals. Let's see... Lance Armstrong took illegal drugs in order to win at sports.
By comparison, the Catholic Church's accomplishments include:
-- Shielding pedophiles for decades (if not centuries)
-- Laundering money for drug cartels.
-- Excommunicating rape victims who get abortions while at the same time forgiving rapists.
-- Diverting hundreds of millions of dollars in order to demonize the GLBT community.
-- Historically supporting slavery.
-- Historically supporting Hitler until it looked like he was going to lose.
-- Historically burning Protestants and hanging witches (yes, the Church actually burned more Christians than witches!)
-- The Church is STILL persecuting witches in Africa. Seriously!
-- The Church has historically stood in the way of every single civil rights advancement that has every occurred in any culture anywhere on Earth. Seriously!
Lance Armstrong may be a cheating, lying jackass, but the Catholic Church is an organized crime syndicate.
Ok I just thought of a joke:
How is Lance Armstrong like Greg LeMond?
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Greg beat, the guys on dope
and
Lance beat the guys, on dope
Amazing what a comma can do ..... OK yeah it's bad....
Don't quit your day job.
Well crap, I was planning on taking over for Leno....
Doping is why I don't watch pro sports, and the majority of Olympic events, and amateur sports. I don't let my kids watch either. I will not support cheating. And the entire sports world is permeated with it.
Sports is not setting very good examples for kids anymore. And that goes beyond doping. Even the way they play is rife with bad examples and bad behaviour. Whether its violence, or dirty play or whatever.
i'am christain orthodox' and the orthodox priests did not commit all the crimes that the catholic priests did with children [child molesters], but in the muslims eyes were all the same, i had this muslim tell me my religion is base on priests rapeing little boys, and all christain priests steal money from the church,and the final straw was when he said that all christains were no where strong beleavers as the muslims are in religion, i let that bastard have it, i told him orthodox/catholic is the number one christainity and no dam muslim can come close to any christains beleafs,i understand that some of our priests see how i said our priests, 'catholic's',again iam orthdox christain but iam sticking up for my brother catholics cause we have to as christains, or one day these muslims will take us over cause they have 10 kids per family to our two kids that christain familys have, i dont even reconize muslim as a religion cause all they want is war! war! war! and there dam beleafs have no respect for woman, oh and they all think that if they do a murder in alhahs eyes that they will have 72 vigins waiting for them in heaven lol,the reason im posting all of this is because all of the posts i read against the catholic faith, i know its got nothing to do with the article above, but again im just trying to unite all of the great christains out there to be strong, we allso have bad christains out there but no where near compareing to the muslims, they are 98% bad, we are 25% bad
joe slav, for everyone's safety, please take your meds...thanks in advance
In other words dope is bad and watch the religious channels/ scratch that watch only Catholic channels. what else will they stick their nose into find out very soon.
idiots. you people give retarted people a bad name.you make comments that make no sense and you know jack@!$%# about the real world.try getting a job.