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PopeWatch: Tramp Stamp

 

 

From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber:

 

 

According to several reports out today, the Vatican will be issuing lower back tattoos to Catholics in honor of German priest and protestant reformer Martin Luther this October.

Although Martin Luther was declared a heretic and excommunicated in 1521, Vatican officials have reportedly sent letters to all Catholics that are “able and willing” to visit Rome for the “official issuing of the ecclesiastical tramp stamp.”

“We believe that Martin Luther, though deemed a heretic by the antiquated Catholic Church, is deserving of recognition for being a witness to the gospel,” said Vatican Tramp Stamp official Eduardo Rosalini. “Also because we want people to like us. No matter whether it’s our fault or not. We do as Christ did in the Scriptures when he apologized to Pontius Pilate, blaming hypocritical members of the Sanhedrin for driving [Pilate] away from a potential conversion to Judaism.”

Rosalini went on to say that, although Catholics will not be eligible for indulgences for getting the tramp stamp due to Luther’s stance on the issue, they will, nevertheless, be compensated with salvation “no matter what sins they commit after the getting the tattoo.”

 

 

Go here to read the comments.  PopeWatch has been unable to get the Vatican to confirm or deny that Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, former Vatican public relations flack, was the one to suggest the Luther Tramp Stamp.

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Don L
Saturday, January 21, AD 2017 9:05am

Whoa, it looks like a “move over Che” moment has arrived.

Philip
Philip
Saturday, January 21, AD 2017 2:48pm

Tattoo’s..?

Wait for the ecclesiastical piercings!

The crucifix hammer and sickle is charming. It will make great nose hardware for Lent. Sort of a mortification of the flesh.

Timothy Reed
Timothy Reed
Sunday, January 22, AD 2017 6:54am

In remembering that Henry V111 made himself the Head of the Church in England about 1535, and other nefarious happenings during that Century, satan might have uttered, as the Century clicked over,
‘One small step for Lucifer…one Giant step for evil’s kind.’ Timothy R.

Guy McClung
Admin
Sunday, January 22, AD 2017 8:37am

But what about the women and the men who say they are women? Can they not have the tat where Madonna is having her protest tat done?

Timothy Reed
Timothy Reed
Monday, January 23, AD 2017 12:26am

I was one of the Police Officers assigned to play bodyguard to Madonna when she was here filming the movie “A League of their Own”. To say that I was unimpressed with her, would be an understatement. TR.

Philip
Philip
Monday, January 23, AD 2017 4:59am

My guess is that Madonna had sold her soul out years ago..1978 – 80.
Her popularity and misuse of Catholic names, the Sacredness of our identity as a Holy Church as well as wearing rosaries while behaving like a woman possessed..this for fame and fortune.

She will understand the question; What profit a man if he gains the whole world but looses his soul in the process?

Micheal Jackson comes to mind.

Pure implosion.
I’m surprised Madonna hasn’t self destructed yet.

God have Mercy.

Timothy Reed
Timothy Reed
Monday, January 23, AD 2017 6:01am

Philip…I am more concerned with all of the young girls that she SCANDALIZED ! Jesus said that for anyone who scandalizes a child, “It would be better for them to have a great millstone hung around their neck and thrown into the Ocean” ! TR.

Mary De Voe
Monday, January 23, AD 2017 12:28pm

Instead of correcting the faults of the clergy, Martin Luther destroyed the faith of the people, depriving the people of the Truth of the Catholic faith. Luther excommunicated himself. Not even the Pope can live his free will for Luther. What is bound in heaven cannot be unbound on earth by the Vicar of Christ, nor ought it be loosed. Luther tramped out of the Church of his own free will and Francis cannot change that… not even with a Tramp Stamp.

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