Catholic Church can’t take a joke
May 3rd, 2007
Thoroughly believable:
Vatican calls verbal attack on Pope “terrorism”
ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican’s official newspaper accused an Italian comedian on Wednesday of “terrorism” for criticizing the Pope and warned his rhetoric could fuel a return to 1970s-style political violence.
In an unusually strongly worded editorial, L’Osservatore Romano said a presenter of a televised May Day rock concert, which is sponsored by Italy’s labor unions, had launched “vile attacks” on Pope Benedict in front of an “excitable crowd”.
“This, too, is terrorism. It’s terrorism to launch attacks on the Church,” it said. “It’s terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone who always speaks in the name of love, love for life and love for man.”
And what was this “terrorism?”
“The Pope says he doesn’t believe in evolution. I agree, in fact the Church has never evolved,” he said.
He also criticized the Church for refusing to give a Catholic funeral to Piergiorgio Welby, a man who campaigned for euthanasia as he lay paralyzed with muscular dystrophy. He died in December after a doctor agreed to unplug his respirator.
“I can’t stand the fact that the Vatican refused a funeral for Welby but that wasn’t the case for (Chilean dictator Augusto) Pinochet or (Spanish dictator Francisco) Franco,” he said between musical acts at the open-air concert.
Calling someone a “terrorist” in today’s culture is a call for their destruction. The Catholic Church, in recovery from its decades long conspiracy to protect pedophiles, is now acting as a purveyor of hate speech.
1 Comment Add your own
1. Chad | May 3rd, 2007 at 9:01 am
I guess the thing that resembles terrorism is the lack of reason underlying these attacks/jokes…I mean to be humorous they need to be based in something more intelliegent than some irrational ax to grind with the Pope or the Catholic Church. For example, the reason why the evolution joke is ridiculous is because it’s false. The Pope actually does believe in evolution…so not very funny. Also, the plain difference between the funerals between the dictators and Welby is that Welby took a moral/political stance completely at odds with the Church’s stance on human life and dignity, and then made his own premature death a political statement, in complete contradiction of what the Church teaches. Why would the Church give this man a funeral just because his family members have some sentimental attachment to Catholicism, when Welby, in effect, chose not to have a Catholic funeral in his choice to be euthanized? This is not the same thing as the other two.
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