SIBENIK, Croatia – July 4, 2006 (UPI) — A Croatian Catholic diocese is seeking investors to convert a Nazi German landing craft into a church boat for young believers.
The Croatian Defense Ministry donated the World War II landing vessel, a 164-foot long tank-carrier, to the diocese of Sibenik, on the central Adriatic coast.
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A Sibenik church dignitary plans to make "a sort of a floating church for the young who would, sailing from one bay to the other, relax, pray and meditate," Zagreb’s Jutarnji List reported.
If they have Mass I guess that is one way to keep people leaving right after Communion.
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Hey, wait a minute…don’t “womanpriests” have a tendency to celebrate “Mass” on boats (hence the red slickers they wear, etc)? Could it be this is a clever way to create a liturgical boat for “womanpriests?”
Once they’ve been well catechized, perhaps they could land on the coast of Kent and launch an assault on Canterbury. A little coercive ecumenism would be a blessing to Anglicans everywhere.
They could call it the Barque of Peter…
If you’ve ever seen a pirate movie, you know that wherever there are pirates, there are others trying to bring the pirates to justice. That’s where this vessel comes in. When completed, it will blow the Sea Priestess right out of the water!
It will also be filled with ICBMs (Iesu Christi Ballistic Missionaries) that can be deployed deep into enemy territory (such as most of the industrialized world).
They had landing craft?!?
Chris is thinking what I’m thinking: smells like a women’s ordination scheme.