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Funny!

This was probably in response to Pope Benedict XVI's decision? Giving up leading the Catholic Church for Lent and beyond? Hmm... Wonder if that's what this picture was trying to imply.

Yes, it takes a few seconds, but then you realize that is EXACTLY what the comic was implying...(ie:giving up the papacy for Lent)--It was meant to be a joke!

it got me laughing! Hey they've got a picture of B16 being depicted as darth sidius, and found it funny. Sometimes you just gotta roll with it!

Very funny! Thanks for posting it.

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This is, of course, how all Liberals see our Holy Father!

Too funny!

Makes a nasty swipe at His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, too. there's no mistaking his klobuk, a one of a kind.

Not so funny in either case, in my book.

Bob

Actually, I was once described in such pictorial terms online in a report of a pilgrimage I'd attended.

There was a comment that some scarry Orthodox cleric looked like Darth Vader. I take it they meant me, though my Old Rite klobuk was black edged with red... even more sinister! Perhaps it was the mantia that really did it.

Father Mark:

Father bless!!

I object to the fact that people think it's okay to make fun of Christian clergy, symbols, etc., but we dare not poke fun at Muslims, their symbols, their leaders, etc.

Asking for your blessing and holy prayers,

Bob

Dear Bob - the Lord bless and keep you.

I heartily agree with you. This problem is very eveident here in the UK. Christianity is pilloried on a daily basis, while political correctness shields other faiths. If we criticise them we are racists.

Father Mark:

Father bless!!

Rejoice in your suffering because the Father does not give us more than we can take. Our suffering and ridicule is, because of our plunging into Christ by Baptism, a gift that gives our lives eternal value, both for ourselves and any others He may direct that value to: we plunge into His Passion and "fill up that which is lacking" as St. Paul puts it. Our white martyrdom is every bit as good as red. I guess the problem is that we have forgotten what this idea of accepting our suffering is all about since we've had centuries where we dominated the culture. Suddenly we wake up to the fact that we are soon going underground again and we cringe. That's why the suffering thread I started still resonates with me. The experience of the Coptic monk and his Church that forms the basis of his inspired look at the questions of suffering has resonated with with so many people in the past years.

Asking for your blessing and continued holy prayes,

Bob

I agree that the bias in who we can laugh at is wrong and very bad, but to be honest, I still laughed at the first post here.