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Timmy has deputed me to start this series again.
This one should not be too difficult - with a little help from Google 
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The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Could that be Pope Julius III?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Marc wrote:
> Could that be Pope Julius III?<
Yes it could! Right in one!!!!
Pope Julius III (ruled 1550-1555) was famous as a skilled expert in canon law, and a patron of the sculptor and painter Michelangelo Buonarotti and the composer Palestrina, He also created one of the most notorious homosexual scandals in the history of the papacy. Just before he became pope, then - Cardinal Giovanni Maria del Monte - he fell in love with a 15-year old ragamuffin named Innocenzo. Two years later del Monte, now Pope Julius III, made young Innocenzo a cardinal (!) and his chief diplomatic and political agent (!!). Church scholars, of course, insist that Julius only wanted Innocenzo to pet his monkey, but the Venetian ambassador had already reported that the young “Ganymede” shared both the pope's bedroom and his bed. The “Cardinal-Monkey” Innocenzo’s glory days ended when his papal partner died in 1555. Innocenzo himself died in 1577.
Now we know what it means to pet one's monkey!
Over to you, Marc. 
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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