Sadly, I Can See More US Bishops Doing This Long Before Taking On Pro-abortion Catholic Politicians
Although he didn't spend much time as the head of the Catholic Church, Urban VII was around long enough to make his feelings on tobacco known. He banned all tobacco "in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose." The penalty for breaking his edict? Excommunication.
Urban VII's crackdown is considered to be history's first public smoking ban. Various papal bans on smoking stuck around until 1724, when tobacco-loving Pope Benedict XIII gave Catholics the thumbs-up to light up again.
1 Comments:
At 7/2/10 2:32 AM , Joe of St. Thérèse said...
LOL, unfortunately what you say is far too true.
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