PopeWatch can only imagine the anger of the Vatican as their Amazon Dog and Idol show is hijacked by faithful Catholics:
Asked about the event at a press conference Oct. 21, Paolo Ruffini, head of Vatican communications, called it a “stunt.”
He said it is difficult to be asked for a Vatican reaction to something that had happened only a short time earlier, adding that “to steal something from a place and, in sum, to throw it away, is a stunt.”
Recalling comments he had made last week that the figure “represents life, fertility, the earth,” Ruffini said Oct. 21 that discarding the statues “is a gesture that seems to me to contradict the spirit of dialogue that should always animate everything.”
“I don’t know what else to say. It was a theft,” Ruffini added.
Fr. Giacomo Costa, a communications official for the Amazon synod, said Oct. 21 the carved figure represents life in the Amazon in the same way a “glass of water” or “parrots” represent life in the region.
Focus on the statues, and the gesture of throwing them into the Tiber river, “doesn’t make sense,” Costa said.
The priest added that “really, however, it is never constructive to steal an object.”
Go here to read the rest. Theft, that is the best they can do? The idols weren’t stolen. They were removed from a Catholic church which they profaned and tossed into a river as the garbage they are, a traditional Roman sign of displeasure. Pope Francis had best watch his step. Popes have ended up in the Tiber for much less than he is guilty of.
The longer this clown show goes on, the more the average Catholic wakes up to the lies and hypocrisy coming straight from anti-Francis and his cadre. This latest example shows how bold they’ve become. When they flaunt their participation in a pagan ritual right before our faces, their response to the anticipated backlash from the real Catholic world is one lie after another. For instance, the first excuse i read, written in a condescending and morally superior tone, was that these were statues of Mary and Elizabeth. When that didn’t hold, well then, on to the next lie. It’s not just the smoke of satan in the Vatican these days, it’s a full on fan club.
That Argentinian Marxist Peronist Caudillo has been flaunting his authority in order to do the unspeakable since the beginning. Remember when he proudly presided over that pagan animalistic laser light show across the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica? Remember when he wore the communist crucifix? This freaking man of sin and depravity won’t stop till God Almighty stops him. Lord Jesus Christ, please for the sake of the Faithful within Your Holy Church, depose that man back to Argentina from whence he came and anathematize all his works! And purge from your Sacred Body all the heretics and apostates whom he has place in positions of clerical power. In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Amen!
watches the shadow-fencing
Oh! THAT is what Disney was referencing in Peter Pan!
More to the point– sure it was a stunt. Is he complaining that their stunt got one-upped?
Basil Rathbone, who was a decorated veteran of the British Army in World War I and who went on behind the lines intelligence gathering missions, was a world class fencer. Flynn was a complete amateur but he made up in vigor what he lacked in skill.
Flynn and Rathbone co-starred also in Dawn Patrol and Captain Blood. Rathbone had one of the more perceptive comments on the star-crossed career of Flynn:
“God gave him the most beautiful body. He’s intelligent. He can act. He arrived very fast. He arrived almost overnight. And he simply wasn’t ready, he wasn’t sufficiently well disciplined in life to know that he had to conform. Now he has made non-conformity a sort-of idiosyncrasy. It’s now almost a big bluff, because he’s thrown a very wonderful career out of the window.”
After all of the movies I’ve seen, THAT is STILL the best sword fight ever filmed.
THAT is STILL the best sword fight ever filmed
Agreed.
I think the saber fight in the grainery/barn from The Duelists might give it some competition.
https://youtu.be/aflbDR6NIUg
“The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” are violated by the idol Pachamama. Human do not breast feed dogs. What kind of monstrosity would violate our Declaration of Independence? What kind of ideology would violate common sense?
The proliferation of idiocy is not conducive to the common good.