(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
This picture looks right up Erik’s alley. Though I do think it is ripe for captions and I will start off with.
What religious order do you belong to? I don’t recognize your habit.
A blue cow sculpture in the form of a melting ice cream, complete with a stick emerging from its posterior, caused a storm when it was erected in front of St Istvan’s Basilica in Budapest.
The Budapest Sun reports that the blue cow "ice-cream" is the most extravagant piece of Budapest’s Cow Parade, which has already toured Prague, New York and London.
However, some Hungarian Catholics have already shown their displeasure with at least one part of the project, by removing the blue "melting cow."
The sculpture had been placed in front of the Basilica on 1 July but was moved to the Liberal headquarters a few days later by a group calling itself Deminem.
Although the artists and the organisers of the event claim not to have intended to offended anyone’s religious beliefs with "the plastic animal showing an ice-cream only," members of Deminem argued that "the cow’s location was derogatory and the fact that its back was pointing towards the Basilica is obviously against the Catholic Church."
I guess they must have so little real anti-Catholicism that they are able to concentrate on the direction of the posterior of a melting blue cow to determine insults. This cow didn’t jump over the moon but was determined to be mooning them instead.
Are you a Catholic parent looking for the best educational experiences for your children? Would you like a truly educational game that teaches geography in a Catholic setting? Were you a fan of the old Carmen Sandiego series. If you answered yes to those questions than we have the game for you.
Vatican Soft introduces the best educational experience to help teach geography via everyone’s favorite wacky bishop, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo. Your child will learn world geography as the Archbishop disappears and reappears around the world. You just never know where he is going to show up next. He could show up in Zambia, Korea, the Vatican, Washington, D.C. or just about anywhere in the world at any time.
Follow the clues when he inevitably disappears once again and try to track where he has gone. Unfortunately the Vatican has not yet inserted a GPS tag below his skin to easily track him, but this gives you the opportunity to use your intellect to discover clues and find his present location. Each game scenario is time sensitive and you better hurry before he surfaces and subsequently jumps below the radar once again.
You will be amazed at all the possibilities surprisingly based on real life events. Will he show up in a soul group, a Moonie wedding, sackcloth and ashes at the Vatican, or in the capitol of the United States announcing a new mission to end celibacy for priests? Who knows where he might show up next, but it is your task to give it a shot. Regardless, you are sure to learn lots of world geography along the way.
So gear up for a world-wide adventure that will intellectually keep you on your toes and learn about hundreds of countries and cities along the way.
Where in the World is Archbishop Milingo is loads of fun and you will soon forget this is an educational game as you chase Archbishop Milingo around the world. The Vatican has a hard time keeping tabs on him, can you do better?
The Pope eagerly awaits next summers Transformer’s movie.
Here he is in the first stage of transformation.
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Via NYer at Free Republic is this monument sponsored by Les Jésuites de Sudbury.
Peace represented by a dove, a Christian Cross and the symbols in each of the letters A(lpha) and O(mega) represents the 12 current religions.
Well at least the is Cross is distinctly at the top. Instead of seeing this as a monument to syncretism we can give this monument other names such as "The Hierarchy of Truth" or "One faith to rule them all." Now those would be great plaques. I am sure some of my readers can come up with their own.
I must admit to not knowing what all the symbols stand for. Though one commenter at FR points out that the "hand on the dress" symbol represents Jainism (though they left off the swastika). I thought the "hand on the dress" symbol was the official religion of Bill Clinton.
Of course the symbols for Judaism, Islam, Buddha, and the Yin Yang are easily recognizable, less so are the ones for Baha’i, Omkar and I am not sure about the others.
Though being a fan of Led Zeppelin I am rather upset that they forgot this one especially considering that this monument is on Grotto Mountain. I mean for a monument of peace who can forget Led Zep’s classic song Whole Grotto Love and of course Stairway to Heaven?
The Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie is the source of the pictures. Their parish directory is really helpful. They have some email addresses I have been looking for for a long time such as:
holyspirit@diocesessm.org
holytrinity@diocesessm.org
motherofgod@diocesessm.org
staugustin@persona.ca
stambrose@diocesessm.org
stfrancoisxavier@diocesessm.org
stgabriel@diocesessm.org
stjerome@diocesessm.org
stpiusx@diocesessm.org
I just hope my requests for intercession don’t get rejected as spam.
And speaking of the Pope Benedict Fan Club, Christopher Blosser has as usual as an in depth roundup on the Pope.
JULY 5, 2006 — We’re beginning to see the impact in our area from a trend in religion, the emerging popularity of cowboy churches.
Cowboy church services are now held each week in Lake Waccamaw and Bladenboro. The goal is to appeal to members of the cowboy culture, people who often can’t make it to church on Sundays because of weekend horse shows and trail rides.
The dress at these services often includes boots and a cowboy hat. The cowboy church meets every Thursday night at the Boys and Girls Home Exhibition Center in Lake Waccamaw.
Do they have Foresquare dancing afterwards? With horses around do you have to watch your step during the communion service? Would these belt buckels be mandatory. I think this is a case for cowboy hat wearing apologist Jimmy Akin.
Word Verification linked to Satan. The Ironic Catholic continues to amuse.
For those who don’t visit my comments you might not be aware of my own word verification scheme.
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.
