Posted on 04/20/2011 9:31:39 AM PDT by markomalley
Remember… if Easter is near, its the season to bash the Catholic Church.
Before Easter and before the beatification of Pope John Paul we are seeing the uptick in anti-Catholic gestures saved up by the MSM precisely for this period.
For example, in the Telegraph we find this, with my emphases and comments:
Pope film sparks Catholic controversy [Benign word, no? If this were done about a Jewish figure, the Jewish community and others would be up in arms saying that this was an effort to promote anti-Semitism, not "controversy".]
A film about a panic-prone Pope who has unwittingly been thrust into the papacy and has to hire a psychiatric assistant to help him has sparked controversy in the Roman Catholic Church.
(snip)
Traditionalists say that the film, by the acclaimed Italian director Nanni Moretti, is “an instrument of Satan” and is particularly offensive as it has been released in the approach to Easter.
Bruno Volpe, the Catholic lawyer, has launched suit for defamation against Moretti and the producers under the terms of the Lateran Pact, which extends the same protections to the prestige of the pope as to the Italian president. [Good for him.] Mr Volpe said Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), never mentioned the current Pope by name but it was nevertheless clear that it was a parody of Pope Benedict XVI and dishonoured the figure of the Pontiff in general. Salvatore Izzo, a Vatican expert, branded the work disrespectful and boring in an open letter to Avvenire, the Catholic bishops’ newspaper.
(snip)
Antonio Vacca, the bishop of Alghero, described Moretti as “an instrument of Satan for separating man from God”.
Gerardo Pierro, archbishop of Salerno, said the launch of a similar film in an Islamic country would have led to the burning of cinemas and attempts to kill the director for blasphemy. “I think many people take advantage of the traditional meekness of Catholics, which is often confused with foolishness or resignation,” Archbishop Pierro said.
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Pope film sparks Catholic controversyIf a controversy happens without mass media promotion it is it still a controversy?
We've pretty much been bashing orthodox catholics all along...easter won't be any different.
If an organization takes one of its deceased former leaders and pronounces them "saintly"....does anyone outside of the organization give a rat's patooot!??
Perhaps God does.
Paraphrasing my screennamesake “One of these days (G-d willing) you won’t have us JudeoChristian Catholics to bash around anymore.”
I wasn’t aware atheists and bigots were welcome at Free Republic.
And...perhaps not.
Must be a wonderful thing to have such an open, inquisitive mind!
Why?
Think about it....it'll come to ya.
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