World Youth Day

Pestilence of the Noggin

One Planet Mikey - July 17, 2008 - 4:51pm

While it is lovely that Il Papa Benedict is here having a gay old time in Sydney, I am concerned he is leading his happy pilgrims into an unsustainable and deadly lifestyle.  Personally, I think they are being conned.  This post is not intended to be one of my anti-religious rants.  Far from it.  I have liked what the church has done in regard to providing health care and education.  I may even like Pope Benedict.  I am sure has lots of good things going for him.  I like his little red shoes.  The Pope wears Prada.  Read more »

O to be a pilgrim

North Coast Voices - July 13, 2008 - 1:05am

Now the Catholic Church has issued an urgent appeal for donations of blankets and winter clothing to warm pilgrims to its Sydney World Youth Day 2008 events this month.
Have I missed something here? This isn't the first such international event, so the Church should have been able to anticipate this need arising. Read more »

Police powers, stone tablet style

Not a Hedgehog - July 1, 2008 - 10:00pm

If you’re in Sydney, I’d avoid worshipping false idols for the next little while.

(BUT if you are going to worship a false idol and are questioned about it by police, then you’re probably best to bear false witness). Read more »

Come all ye faithfull and Sieg Heil George Pell

North Coast Voices - July 10, 2008 - 3:29am

Stone the crows! Cardinal Pell's wet dream has finally come true.

This month, in connivance with the NSW Iemma Government, he has managed to roll back political and social history as far as the Middle Ages, when church and state were so closely intertwined that they were virtually one. Read more »

Pope inspires lust

An Onymous Lefty - July 1, 2008 - 10:57pm

This story in the UK Sun about Sydney brothels "bracing" for the upcoming Papal visit, is funny/ironic enough.

A spokeswoman for the Bondi Junction house said: "We will get a lot of tourists, pilgrims and we will still get the curious.

"The World Council of Churches, when they had their congress in Canberra back in the 1990s, that was the best business period ever. Read more »


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