Pope Benedict XVI made his much-hyped Twitter debut today, and immediately started clogging up everyone's Twitter feeds with his random observations about life.
A few years ago, Sister Margaret Farley, a nun and a teacher at Yale's Divinity School, published Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics—a book that did not say that your sexual urges are nothing more than the shameful pangs of demon penises fucking your soul which should be repressed and repressed and…
OK, it's not quite The Da Vinci Code or even The Godfather: Part III, but a scandal rocking the Vatican is aways better than no scandal rocking the Vatican.
Italian artist Oliviero Rainaldi recently unveiled a new bronze sculpture of Pope John Paul II outside the main train station in Rome. Quite an honor for an artist, we'd imagine. But the Vatican has decided to piss on Rainaldi's parade, saying the sculpture looks nothing like John Paul II (we're guessing Rainaldi…
The Vatican was served with court papers last week, in connection with the infamous Milwaukee school for deaf boys molestation scandal involving Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy. The suit names Pope Benedict XVI and two other Vatican officials.
The Vatican next week will unveil a Facebook page for the late Pope John Paul II to promote his beatification on May 1. Monsignor Paul Tighe, the Vatican's number two man in the social media department, told the AP, "What we found is that Facebook doesn't just share information, it creates community."
The Vatican has issued a statement in response to travel agencies trying to sell tickets to the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II, because there are no actual tickets for the event. From Vatican Radio:
Pope Benedict XVI is in Spain right now to chastise that country for being too secular. So he was greeted in Barcelona today by about 200 gays and lesbians who staged a "kiss in" along the Popemobile's route. [CBC; Getty]
Italian ice cream maker Antonio Federici has been ordered by Britain's Advertising Standards Authority to stop running an ad featuring two "sexualized" priests about to kiss "passionately." Last month the company ran ads featuring a pregnant nun (also banned).
In a lame attempt at being "cool," the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano yesterday wrote, "Few people know it, and he does everything he can to hide it, but it is true: Homer J Simpson is a Catholic." Uh, ok.
Pope Benedict is heading to Britain next month! For the Pope's big blowout parties in Hyde Park and Cofton Park, the Catholic church issued a list of banned items: barbecues, booze, tween boys, animals, and musical instruments. Some party! [Guardian]
Using a hidden camera, an Italian magazine owned by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi caught three Catholic priests inside a gay nightclub and having sex inside a church building. The local diocese is now calling on gay priests to come out.
Hey, Catholics! The Vatican totally wants to get in on your action, which is why it's urging couples — married couples — to pray before sex so that it's not hedonistic, devilish or gay. [Daily Mail]
What the hell is wrong with Caroline Kennedy? Didn't she learn that she doesn't really care for public scrutiny, one bit? Why did she want to be the ambassador to the Vatican?
