Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

FEMEN take on the Pope (nudity)

Not quite as outrageous as Sinead's attack, but still newsworthy.



According to their Livejournal (via Google Translate):


"Alexandra Shevchenko, past the police and security services, made ​​her way into the center of the Vatican in St. Peter's Square and staged topless just share during Sunday Mass under the balcony of the Pope, deploying a banner reading 'Freedom for women.'
In this way, activists protested the papal patriarchal propaganda manipulated by the medieval idea of a woman's social and cultural mission. Condemnation of the use of contraceptives, the international ban on the abortion lobby, the correction of clothing and appearance of women, the ban on women in the ordained - a fetid belch a witch hunt. Sexist policies Vatican has its downside in the form of a wave of sexual crimes committed by clergy against children and women. The women's movement FEMEN favor of a free woman, devoid of prejudice, despising all forms of patriarchal slavery, blatant of which was and remains a church!  
FEMEN  caused panic among Vatican intelligence. Journalists were brutally dispersed, the Italian journalists dutifully adopted a ban on shooting, and were not only arrested the activist movement FEMEN, but also a journalist from Australia. The promoters of the movement had more than four hours in the Roman police, and only under pressure from the media escaped deportation."





 Originally from Ukraine, FEMEN are on a tour of Europe to promote women's rights and stick it to the man.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

St. Sarah of Assisi?

"Sell the Vatican, feed the world!" is the theme of Sarah Silverman's heretical new viral video:



(Warning: F-bombs)

Amusing stuff. Perhaps offensive to some. But not original — not by a long shot.

The argument over whether or not churches should hold wealth while the poor go hungry has always been there. Has she never seen The Name of the Rose?



(See the debate at the very beginning.)

So, while this is a cutely cocky video, Ms. Silverman has stumbled onto an issue that has been faced by Christian theologians since St. Francis' time. But at least today, nobody has to face an inquisition over it.