YOU know it - no matter what the media says!

[chocolatepuppy]

I'm Catholic, but regardless, I believe animals have souls. Anyone who has and/or had a furkid knows that!

Ordered a blue t shirt!

[Karen]

I'm Catholic, but regardless, I believe animals have souls. Anyone who has and/or had a furkid knows that!

Ordered a blue t shirt!

Cool, thanks!

[mrspunkysmom]

I'm Catholic, but regardless, I believe animals have souls. Anyone who has and/or had a furkid knows that!

Ordered a blue t shirt!

I am, too, and yes, animals have souls. I've always felt dismayed and frustrated when religious types would lord it over me and berate me for believing that. It's so refreshing to hear a leader confirm what I've always believed.

I truly believe that we are shepherds of this planet, not owners.

[pomtzu]

I should have gone with my first instinct, which was to not order anything for myself till after the holidays. I ordered anyway, and it is royally hosed up.

Karen - I ordered from the link you had in post #1 here, since that was the only one available when I ordered. Post #8 has a different link and it is a different campaign, and it was not posted here till several hours AFTER I placed my order.

Anyway -I got my email from Tespring acknowledging my order - and it is a RELAUNCH RESERVATION - that original campaign expired. However the link in post #8 shows an open and active campaign. Makes sense to me that Teespring could have just put my relaunch order on the open campaign - but NOPE - that didn't happen. So now I probably won't get what I ordered anyway, since my email reads "We'll let you know IF there is enough interest to relaunch the campaign". B.S. on that - I'll just cancel that relaunch order and reorder on the one that is open - that's pretty simple and isn't rocket science - right?????

Well - that's a joke too. I followed their instructions for cancellation, and it won't let me - says "could not find order with that number". I entered it every different way possible - and I can't cancel. So now I'm left in the dark. I probably won't get the shirt because the campaign will not "relaunch" - but then again - it just might - someday.

I'm done with Teespring before I even got started, and at this point - I don't even want the shirt. There's enough else to do this busy time of year, than to waste time trying to straighten this out.

End of justified rant................

[Karen]

I should have gone with my first instinct, which was to not order anything for myself till after the holidays. I ordered anyway, and it is royally hosed up.

Karen - I ordered from the link you had in post #1 here, since that was the only one available when I ordered. Post #8 has a different link and it is a different campaign, and it was not posted here till several hours AFTER I placed my order.

Anyway -I got my email from Tespring acknowledging my order - and it is a RELAUNCH RESERVATION - that original campaign expired. However the link in post #8 shows an open and active campaign. Makes sense to me that Teespring could have just put my relaunch order on the open campaign - but NOPE - that didn't happen. So now I probably won't get what I ordered anyway, since my email reads "We'll let you know IF there is enough interest to relaunch the campaign". B.S. on that - I'll just cancel that relaunch order and reorder on the one that is open - that's pretty simple and isn't rocket science - right?????

Well - that's a joke too. I followed their instructions for cancellation, and it won't let me - says "could not find order with that number". I entered it every different way possible - and I can't cancel. So now I'm left in the dark. I probably won't get the shirt because the campaign will not "relaunch" - but then again - it just might - someday.

I'm done with Teespring before I even got started, and at this point - I don't even want the shirt. There's enough else to do this busy time of year, than to waste time trying to straighten this out.

End of justified rant................

Soooo sorry, Pomtzu! That's terrible! If we can get them to reinstate your oder, would you still like the shirt? They are a relatively new company, and obviously are still working out the bugs in things. So sorry!

[Catty1]

Um...really really sorry to be a wet blanket here...the pope that said this was Paul VI. So the shirt is still great!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-fr...ampaign=buffer

It was a heartwarming story for legions of pet owners and animal lovers around the world. Pope Francis, talking to a distraught boy whose pet had died, declared there was a place in heaven for the creatures we share our lives with. His comment was reported this week by many news media outside Italy, with dozens of articles in the United States. It was veritable catnip to social media.

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However, it turned out the pope had not made the comment.
Misreading of remarks

The news stories were apparently based on a misreading of remarks Pope Francis made at his weekly general audience at the Vatican on Nov. 26 and on a comment that a past pope did make several decades ago.
Pope Paul VI, who died in 1978, once said, reportedly while comforting a child whose dog had died, "one day we will see our animals in the eternity of Christ."

'There is a fundamental rule in journalism. That is double-checking, and in this case it was not done.'- Vatican's deputy spokesman, Father Ciro Benedettini

"There is a fundamental rule in journalism. That is double-checking, and in this case it was not done," the Vatican's deputy spokesman, Father Ciro Benedettini, said on Saturday, when asked about how the media ran with the story.
The spokesman said he received a number of calls on the story from outside Italy on Friday and was taken by surprise because he did not recall the pope saying anything like that.
Religion News Service was among the first media to put the record straight. It said in an article published late on Friday that the error appeared to have stemmed from a piece in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Nov. 27, whose headline was misleading.
The article recounted the pope's words from his general audience on Nov. 26, when the topic was the transformation of all creation into a new heaven and a new earth. It cited the remark about animals and attributed it to Paul VI, but its headline said "The pope and animals. 'paradise is open to all creatures.'"
The New York Times, which ran a story on Thursday about the purported comment by Francis, acknowledged its mistake, saying in a correction on Friday that it had misattributed the remark by Paul VI to the current pope.
A spokeswoman for the New York Times did not immediately have any comment.
On its website, CNN also corrected its story, noting the misattribution and saying it was unclear what Francis believes about pets going to heaven. A spokeswoman for CNN had no immediate comment.
Reuters did not publish a story on the remarks erroneously attributed to Francis.
What does Pope Francis think about pets?

As for what Francis does think about animals, he has not spoken much about them in public, but Benedettini said that from the general tone of his speeches and gestures "it is clear that he is in spiritual harmony with all of creation."
The spokesman said the pope was preparing an encyclical that will deal in part with the environment and recalled that a group that looks after stray dogs once brought the animals to his general audience and the pope was pleased.
When he made a Christmas season visit to a Rome parish last year, Francis willingly let a young girl place a lamb on his shoulders as a shepherd would carry it. The pope once told priests that a good pastor should know not only the names of his parishioners but also the names of their dogs, Benedettini said.
Recent popes have said different things about the possible spiritual side of animals.
In 1990, Pope John Paul implied that animals had souls because they too were created from the breath of God. In 2008, former Pope Benedict upset some animal lovers when he said only humans were "called to eternity."

[Karen]

Um...really really sorry to be a wet blanket here...the pope that said this was Paul VI. So the shirt is still great!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-fr...ampaign=buffer

So I understand he was quoting a previous Pope, but still said it, and I bet believes it. The sentiment - and the shirt - still stand!

And okay, Pom, I do understand - they are in Rhode Island - maybe we can send Sandy's bichons over there to pee on their tires in protest!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

The Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ (sometimes called Revelations) mentions Jesus coming back on a white horse. If He has a horse other animals will be there too.

[pomtzu]

And okay, Pom, I do understand - they are in Rhode Island - maybe we can send Sandy's bichons over there to pee on their tires in protest!

Yeah - I saw that they are in Providence, so I'm sure that Willy would delight in such an assignment.

I'd be even more perturbed if Teespring was in Warwick and not Providence. Afterall - that's my home town, and they do things correctly in Warwick.

[mrspunkysmom]

Um...really really sorry to be a wet blanket here...the pope that said this was Paul VI. So the shirt is still great!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-fr...ampaign=buffer

Thanks Candace. For some reason, even though I am Catholic, the other popes quotes did not trickle down to the lay level. Interesting.

I still think the shirt is good.

[pomtzu]

Soooo sorry, Pomtzu! That's terrible! If we can get them to reinstate your oder, would you still like the shirt? They are a relatively new company, and obviously are still working out the bugs in things. So sorry!

No - don't bother, Karen. Maybe SOMEDAY - if and when they work out the bugs - then I might consider doing business with them.