Can't these people get enough of the same bullshit...

[and-justice-for-all]

really, it does not matter how you wrap it, it is still just bullshit.

First Christian church opens in Qatar.

DOHA, Qatar - Thousands of worshippers gathered Saturday for the consecration of Qatar's first Christian church, ending decades of underground worship in this Sunni Muslim and deeply conservative Persian Gulf nation.

Cardinal Ivan Diaz, envoy to Pope Benedict XVI, presented the new Roman Catholic parish of Our Lady of the Rosary with a chalice offered by the pope. Many congregants wept when a relic of Saint Padre Pio da Pietrelcina was dedicated in the five-hour mass.

Three dozen bishops and priests gathered to celebrate the mass, which was conducted in English with prayers in the Tagalog language from the Philippines, Hindi, Arabic and other languages.

"It is a wonderful day for us, we have been waiting for many, many years to have a proper place of worship," said Indian resident Robert Rodriguez, one of the estimated 10,000 people who gathered for the ceremony.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_re_mi_ea/qatar_catholic_church

[progressoid]

1. No no no. It's not all just bullshit.

Sometimes it's horse-shit. Or bat-shit. Or dog-shit. Donkey-shit. Yak-shit. etc.

You just have to open your mind to the nuanced wonders within religion.

[Deep13]

2. "...wept when a relic of Saint Padre Pio da Pietrelcina was dedicated..."

Um...who? :shrug:

A five-hour mass? Damn, God must have been bored out of his mind! :evilgrin:

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I think that translates as ...

"St. Father Pio of Petroluem" . It is the Middle East, after all ...

[enlightenment]

4. A baby saint - well, one of the new ones.

How many people did JPII canonize, anyway?

Here's his story. As far as I can tell, he didn't really do anything - but JPII set the bar pretty low.

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20020616_padre-pio_en.html


Love this line: He was always immersed in supernatural realities. Not only was he himself a man of hope and total trust in God, but by word and example he communicated these virtues to all who approached him.

What the heck is a "supernatural reality"? There's more than one of them, apparently, since he immersed himself in them (sounds kinda kinky to me . . .)

Another phrase that caught my eye was "Sister Death." She "took" him. When did Death become a girl? I could have sworn it was the tall bony dude in the hood, carrying a scythe.