"So I admire those artists that are actually spiritually concerned. And have the balls to be concerned about that, and not concerned with fuckin’ George Bush’s dick. It’s very hard to sing when you’ve got someone’s dick in your mouth.”
She shoots a mischievous grin before adding, 'I’ve tried.'"
Sinéad O’Connor on the pope, her music, dating, buying condoms, and everything in between.
posted by the young rope-rider
on Dec 12, 2011 -
28 comments
Looking for a reason to celebrate today, or just a reason to skip out on your obligations? You could look through
Religious seasonal days of celebration and holy days , check if today is covered by
Holiday for Every Day yet, or keep things simple and rely on a
Calendar of the Saints like the
Catholic feast days or Greek Saints Days from the
Orthodox Ministry Access Calendar. If you like to be more traditional, you could go with the
Medievalist's On-line Calendar of Saints, which only lists people recognized as saints in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Or, if you feel lucky,
check for special Google logos (designed by
Dennis Hwang). For instance, today is the first day of
Spring, and
the 40th anniversary of
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 20, 2009 -
6 comments
Bishop Richard Williamson, a member of
The Society of Saint Pius X, has been making news since
his excommunication was lifted by Pope Benedict XVI in January. On January 21, 2009, in a nearly six minute interview Williamson told a television news program in Sweden that "
I believe that history is strongly against, is hugely against, six million Jews having been gassed in gas chamber as a deliberate policy" during the Holocaust. In 2001, the bishop wrote "
That girls should not be in universities flows from the nature of universities and from the nature of girls: true universities are for ideas, ideas are not for true girls, so true universities are not for true girls."
The Vatican is now repudiating the Holocaust denials. And Bishop Williamson has claimed
he will reconsider the issue of Nazi gas chambers by reading the book of a former Holocaust doubter.
posted by McGuillicuddy
on Feb 12, 2009 -
89 comments
After breaking the ice with his
video message to all Americans, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Washington, D.C. this afternoon for the initial part of his first Papal visit to the United States of America. Watch it all
live.
[more inside]
posted by resurrexit
on Apr 15, 2008 -
36 comments
The Catholic Church is traditionally not seen as a progressive institution, but when it comes to global warming, Vatican City is aiming to become the
worlds first fully carbon-neutral state, and the Pope is expected to use his first address to the United Nations next April to
deliver a powerful warning over climate change in a move to adopt protection of the environment as a "moral" cause for the Catholic Church and its billion-strong following.
posted by stbalbach
on Sep 22, 2007 -
81 comments
Is Catholic-Anglican Reconciliation the only way forward? The
Anglicans aren't
Protestant, they're
Catholics!
In 1920 the Church of England - Anglicans - called for its reconciliation with the Catholic Church, and in 1925 the
Catholic Ecumenical movement sought to make the Anglicans an autonomous Catholic church with the Archbishop of Canterbury as its patriarch. It would have been similar to the Coptic and
Syro-Malabarese churches. The move was quashed by
Pope Pius XI, who ended the ecumenical movement there and then.
If conservative Anglicans chose this third way, instead of infighting over sexuality and gender issues or establishing a new model for membership, it could keep its married priests, its land, its churches, it's membership, and the Archbishop of Canterbury would still have a job.
posted by parmanparman
on Jul 7, 2006 -
27 comments
