Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Polish Man Found Guilty of Libeling the Pope

A court has fined a man $6,500 for libeling the Pope! AP (via Yahoo! News) reports:

Jerzy Urban, founder and publisher of the weekly magazine "NIE" — Polish for "no" — illegally insulted the pope when he printed an article making fun of John Paul's age and frailty before a visit to Poland in 2002, the court ruled.

He was found guilty of violating a law that bans publicly insulting foreign heads of state.

Read more: Polish Publisher Guilty of Libeling Pope

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you worship God or the Pope?

Anonymous said...

You know us Catholics, we worship the Pope and Mary!

Who the hell is God?

Idiot.

Cheers,

Boney