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Your Peter’s Pence Contributions at Work

 

 

The above video is courtesy of the Pontifical Council on Culture.  I truly hope this waste of money and time was a product of good old fashioned nepotism rather than anyone being confused enough to think this vanity-vamping-selfie serves any useful purpose except the obvious one of making the Pontifical Council on Culture appear truly absurd.  Vatican Bureaucracy-a sure sign that God clearly protects an institution cursed by such fools.

Update December 28:  The English version of the video has been yanked, although the Italian version is still up there.  No doubt the Council pulled the English version after all the caustic comments on English speaking blogs.  The fact that they left up the Italian version indicates that the powers that be on the council do not understand the criticism.  Hattip to Patrick Madrid for preserving this monument to the cluelessness of the Vatican bureaucracy.

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Paul W Primavera
Tuesday, December 23, AD 2014 7:10pm

The Gospel is about Jesus Christ, NOT about women, NOT about men. Let us imitate Jesus Christ. Let men aspire to be like St. Joseph. Let women aspire to be like the Blessed Virgin Mary. This godless narcissism is abominable! Even on Facebook I do not post selfies of myself. Doing so is by definition selfish, self-serving, and vain-glorious. This freaking crap has got to be condemned as the horse manure that it is.
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PS, but I do rant a lot both here and on Facebook. Why my wife surely destined for sainthood tolerates me I do not know.

Paul W Primavera
Tuesday, December 23, AD 2014 7:17pm

PS, I will wager that this crap has the full support of Pope Francis.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Tuesday, December 23, AD 2014 7:46pm

The head of the Pontifical Council for Culture was appointed in 2007 by Pope Benedict. Evidently, he’s a fan of social media.

Mike Petrik
Mike Petrik
Tuesday, December 23, AD 2014 9:37pm

Art,
He can be a fan of any medium he wishes, but this is just embarrassing insipid crap. As my late mother-in-law would say, “It is a crime that working people pay for this.”

Philip
Philip
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 4:56am

Solar indigestion is on the way. One belch or flatulence from the Sun and poof! The narcissistic culture will be busy planting crops and knocking fruit down from branches. Just one finely timed btttappthhummph and end the chapter face bookies….off the air!

Stephen E. Dalton
Stephen E. Dalton
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 7:47am

I already saw this at CMR. I hope someone puts up a satire of this pap on Youtube soon!

Lisa Bourne
Lisa Bourne
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 8:47am

Embarrassing. She looks and sounds like a really creepy Stepford Wife. Who thinks this is appealing to women again? Stuff likes this makes the Gates of Hell seem all that much menacing. Yuck.

John Nolan
John Nolan
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 9:20am

Call me a self-absorbed promethean neo-pelagian, but I can’t for the life of me see what this has to do with culture.

Paul W Primavera
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 10:02am

I agree with Lisa. That woman seems trampy. She may not be, but that is what I felt when watching the video.

Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 10:06am

PS, but I do rant a lot both here and on Facebook. Why my wife surely destined for sainthood tolerates me I do not know.
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Tell her I greatly appreciate it. I enjoy your posts. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 10:18am

It has always been charged that a male hierarchy knows nothing about women. Rather than appear transparent and caring, this video only confirms their know nothingness.
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Catholics have Our Blessed Lady

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 12:01pm

Yes, Stepford Wife, or more likely, a droid: I think I see the glint of transistors and a motherboard thru her pupils..

Pat
Pat
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 12:22pm

– The Woman’s Consultation Group – Rome, Jan. 4!!!
Hair and makeup, it’s just what women do, serious looking glasses to type a string of words, new look of formal apparel exampled, clones reply for satisfaction of a statistic study of interested seeker types. Don’t worry about Peter’s Pence – let the improperly cultured do that.
Forget it if you missed the ‘culture’ boat of proper phones and style, or have homes and family ties to keep you where you belong.

Sydney O. Fernandes, MD
Sydney O. Fernandes, MD
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 7:48pm

Ugh! Sorry I viewed the video! Other than the near-lethal dose of the foreign accent, the “model” has serious problems with blepharospasm, making me want to keep narrowing my own eyes to avoid being blinded in addition to avoiding reverse peristalsis aka vomiting. Agree with Mary De Voe 100%!

DJ Hessselius
DJ Hessselius
Wednesday, December 24, AD 2014 7:56pm

I note that, as of 8:51p EST Dec 24, it has 2 likes on Youtube, and 65 dislikes. 3, 180 views, lots of interesting comments there, including this quote by a woman named Karen W: “On top of all else that is wrong with this thing, you do NOT ask a woman how she feels about being a woman two days before Christmas.”

Micha Elyi
Micha Elyi
Saturday, December 27, AD 2014 3:52am

Such catty sourpusses here! The young woman in the video reminded me of a young, almost-as-blonde-yet-just-as-beautiful Milanese woman I once met. Any transistors one saw in her eyes were only reflections of the microprocessors she, as a Ph.D. process engineer, she oversaw the manufacture of.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Monday, December 29, AD 2014 2:09pm

Yes, Micha, you are so right: We all see how your observations are so much more serenely profound and certainly NOT superficial (on “blonde, beautiful MIlanese women”) than facing the facts of a vapid, shallow advertising campaign entirely unworthy of the Peter’s Pence.

So, how much are you donating to this, Micha? If is over $250, you know you have to get an acknowledgement with their Tax ID# from the organization for the IRS. Do tell.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Monday, December 29, AD 2014 8:47pm

she said: ” inspired by Pope Francis openness.. ” reflecting on woman’s place – at what point today is woman between “equality” and “difference”? who are you what do you think about being a woman? your body? your spiritual life? ”
your answer could be used to ” be part of a GREAT MEETING OF CARDINALS AND BISHOPS! in February.”

What will the bishops do with this information – what women will respond to this ad to send in something for the bishops/cardinals at their great meeting?
🙂 i guess the headlines could be about the women from around the world who sent in pictures of themselves in roman collars

Mary De Voe
Tuesday, December 30, AD 2014 6:03am

Anzlyne: “What will the bishops do with this information – what women will respond to this ad to send in something for the bishops/cardinals at their great meeting?”
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I am afraid that any traditional women will be thrown out with Cardinals Pell and Burke.

CAM
CAM
Tuesday, December 30, AD 2014 10:07am

There goes the close minded Catholic Church again….discriminating by omission against the third and fourth genders… and maybe the fifth if there is one….my cultural IQ is rather low.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Tuesday, December 30, AD 2014 8:22pm

ha- yes, that’s right- as in any democracy, of course other genders certainly would want to give their input for the great meeting!

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