Religions > Atheism > Silly Season part 2: Pope presides at Good Friday procession
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Silly Season part 2: Pope presides at Good Friday procession |
Popes gone wild.
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Pope presides at Good Friday procession
By Philip PullellaFri Apr 14, 5:25 PM ET
Pope Benedict on Friday led a Good Friday procession and heard
meditations lamenting a "diabolical pride aimed at eliminating the
family," an apparent reference to gay marriage and abortion.
The 78-year-old Pope led the traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross)
procession around the ruins of Rome's ancient Colosseum commemorating
Christ's passion and death.
The 14 meditations, written by Italian Archbishop Angelo Comastri and
read aloud to the crowd by actors, painted a picture of a bleak world
threatened on all sides.
One of the meditations appeared to be a reference to homosexual
marriages and moves to give legal status to unmarried couples.
"Surely God is deeply pained by the attack on the family," one of the
meditations said. "Today we seem to be witnessing a kind of
anti-Genesis, a counter-plan, a diabolical pride aimed at eliminating
the family."
The Pope, wearing a red cape over this white cassock, carried a wooden
cross for part of the service around the Colosseum as tens of thousands
of people held candles on the streets below.
Another meditation read by one of the actors appeared to be a criticism
of genetic manipulation and cloning, lamenting a "move to re-invent
mankind, to modify the very grammar of life as planned and willed by
God...a risky and dangerous venture."
Yet another meditation said the world had lost its sense of sin.
"Today a slick campaign of propaganda is spreading an inane apologia of
evil, a senseless cult of Satan, a mindless desire for transgression, a
dishonest and frivolous freedom, exalting impulsiveness, immorality and
selfishness as if they were new heights of sophistication," it said.
At the end of the procession, the Pope delivered brief, unprepared
remarks.
"In the mirror of the cross we saw all of the sufferings of humanity
today," he said.
"We saw the suffering of children who are abandoned and abused, the
threats against the family, the divisions of the world, the arrogance of
the rich who do not share ... with those who suffer hunger and thirst,"
he said.
The evening procession was the second event for the Pope on Good Friday,
the most solemn day in the Christian calendar, when the faithful
commemorate Christ's crucifixion and death.
At another Good Friday service earlier in the day, the Pope heard a
Vatican preacher rail against "The Da Vinci Code," branding the book and
its upcoming film version as just more examples of Jesus being sold out
by a wave of what he called "pseudo-historic" art.
Father Raniero Cantalamessa, whose official title is "Preacher of the
Papal Household," also condemned the so-called "Gospel of Judas," an
alternative view to traditional Christian teaching which has received
wide media attention recently.
The Pope, who marks the first anniversary of his election next week, is
leading the 1.1 billion-member Roman Catholic Church toward the first
Easter of his pontificate.
His predecessor John Paul was in his dying days for all of last year's
Easter season and was only able to make brief appearances in the week
between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday.
John Paul died on April 2, a week after Easter.
On Saturday night, Benedict will say an Easter Eve mass, and on Sunday
will deliver an "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) blessing and
message.
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16 Apr 2006 02:48:27 AM |
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johac wrote:
Popes gone wild.
This phrase reminds me of that classic Python sketch, the Bishop. "We
was too late ta save da Vicar!"
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L. Raymond
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Silly Season part 2: Pope presides at Good Friday procession |
16 Apr 2006 11:31:21 PM |
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In article <1bs74ywgcfner.68fquh0uqh7h$.dlg@40tude.net>,
"L. Raymond" <badaddress@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
johac wrote:
Popes gone wild.
This phrase reminds me of that classic Python sketch, the Bishop. "We
was too late ta save da Vicar!"
Heh!
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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