Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen – Cardinal Burke Out of Fashion in Pope Francis’ New Vatican Season

He was yelling about being arrested by Obama in 2011, persecuted for his faith and expecting martyrdom. Little did he expect a shiv in the back from his own kind of the priestly class. His guy – Benedict XVI retires – and all his latest line of fashion rags are oh so no chic no more. 

Well maybe next season Ray for a comeback?

http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/was-cardinal-raymond-burke-muzzled-or-silenced-photos-238437211-239670501.html

One of the most conservative voices in the American Catholic Church, and one of the least forgiving, Burke must have thought the world had turned upside down on the morning of December 16.

That day he learned he was losing his influential role in the appointment of bishops – in the same week that the nations most prominent gay rights magazine The Advocate was choosing Pope Francis as their Person of the Year.

It wasn't a coincidence. The new pope has said he wants to move away from the 'obsessive focus' on divisive social issues, and to do that he has begun to muzzle some of the most prominent conservative cultural warriors. So bye bye Cardinal Burke. You're going the way of shoulder pads and leg warmers….

But times change and so does fashion. The fashion under Pope Emeritus Benedict was to relentlessly hit hot button social issues and the people who promoted them. Benedict didn't tailor his conscience to the fabric of the times, but instead remained hopelessly, often hilariously anachronistic. He governed like it was 1406, not 2006. He was a man after Cardinal Burke's heart but in tone and substance, and especially in style, Benedict was a PR disaster for the Church.

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Pope Benedict’s Racial, No I Mean Nuremburg type Catholic Laws on Marriage Equality

Racial Requirements for Marriage Equality on the way to the Registry Office - 1935

Running into some interesting visuals while doing some historical research looking for something else, the thought occurred to me how so very much like the 1930s German Nuremburg Racial Laws are the current main-stream currents and opinions of some churches in their almost political fanaticism regarding racial sexual marriage equality.

That somehow, certain senile old men, who claim that they and their parents hated the national socialists in the German homeland in the 1930s and 1940s (Notice how I am trying to not invoke Godwin’s Law here with a certain adjective) are blindly taken at their word and have also somehow modeled their dictatorial vision of what Adolph Jesus wanted for the human race in the current quadrant space of modern history.

Do you count on the current Socio/Politico/Economico Global Spreadsheet?

That with so much of humanity already discounted on the new Global Corporate Spreadsheet these days, it is only a matter of time before anyone of us, no matter what our degree or tastes in sexuality, 10%, 25%, 50% etc. that sooner of later a recycled chart from the Nuremburg Laws will get reused with English words inserted in it (a chart attachment to that spreadsheet) and along with a FoxFauxNews type explanation, footnote, of why a once secure percentage of the 47%, as an example, are now ready for the ovens at the Solent Green for profit factory newly installed in your town, next to the Wal-Mart of course, in an easy to find location.

 

Report tomorrow at Zulo 1100 hundred hours. Have a nice eternity.

(music to listen to while you wait your turn in line)

Pope Benedict III – Papal Testicle Testing Chair – Pope Joan the First, a woman

What?  This is history.  Urban Legend – Rome – based on fact?  Over a thousand years old.

There is very little known about the reign of Pope Benedict III except that clerics were generally satisfied with his testicles. Upon his coronation in 855 AD God’s chosen messenger on Earth sat in a special chair resembling an ancient commode while the Holy See checked to make sure that the papacy was indeed infallible… 

Two reliable clerics touched his testicles; witnesses who presented legal evidence of his maleness…At this the priest and the people responded, “Deo gratius” [Thanks be to God]

http://zinjanthropus.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/penis-spines-pearly-papules-and-pope-benedicts-balls/

They keep denying that there ever was a female Pope in the RC Church.  The above device was used for centuries to make certain that all popes had the right stuff, but only after Pope Joan the First’s brief reign in the ninth century C.E..

I finally got to see the flick Pope Joan about the first woman pope circa 850 C.E..

They were showing it on the Reelz cable channel.  I liked the historic sets and costumes especially around the old St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.  Script was a bit disappointing and considering the subject matter, it was a good period piece and not a so-called chick flick.

Joan is the daughter of an abusive priest (yes, they did marry back then) and a loving caring mother who points her daughter in the direction of an education in Latin and such and that leads the heroine all the way to the Chair of Peter in Rome with much grit along the way.  


John Goodman (he stole the show) is her mentor good pope before they poison, John Paul One him, get him out of the picture for fun, power and profit.

Pope Joan film sparks Roman Catholic Church row


Pope Joan I – First Woman Pope



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