Andrew
a bit of a side line, but one you might enjoy if your are stuck for christmas presents. X box or a talking doll ummm Hard choice. I can just imagine the look the kids' faces if Jesus appeared from their stocking.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/11/14/toy.jesus.ap/index.html

Richard

I saw that yesterday. And, it is not that far off topic, actually. Both the Jesus doll and Padre Cicero represent cynical marketing of religious belief on the part of their promoters.

There is another with semi-godlike status I believe- Marcelo (?) Rossi- wanted to be JP2's right hand man from what I recall. He's another charlatan.

I had never heard about Marcelo Rossi wanting to be the Papal assistent, but I don't doubt it in the least. He is definitely a charlatan, however. Kind of a priest/popstar.

Ummm....not to be a party crasher...but I clicked yer link...and ye weren't the first one. I immediately sent a letter of complaint to google.

Try it again. I just did, and it came up again.

Try setting the country to U.S. like this
http://www.google.com/search?hl=pt-US&q=padre+cicero

That's the only way it would come up for me. Also depends on which data center you hit at Google.

Thanks, Aaron. I'm quite ignorant of all the inner workings of Google from country to country.

By the way folks, if you want good insights into missionary work, check out Aaron's blog by clicking on his name above. I have been following it for some time.

Good stuff.