A Matrix-style poster depicting a Catholic priest as Neo isn't a spoof. The Catholic Church really is distributing these things. It's part of their
new recruitment campaign:
The poster's creator, the Rev. Jonathan Meyer, 28, associate director of youth ministries for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, says pop culture is the key to attracting young men to an occupation that has gotten bad press.
"If we can get high-school youth to hang a picture of a priest in their room, that's huge in helping young men to answer the call to the priesthood," the cleric said. "Anyone who is a 'Matrix' guru looks at the picture and automatically gets it."
Crucifix in hand, Father Meyer posed for the poster, rated R for "restricted to those radically in love with Jesus Christ." Running time is "all eternity," and its title reads, "The Catholic priesthood: The answer is out there ... and it's calling you."
I'm wondering how far the Neo as Catholic priest analogy can be extended. In the second Matrix movie, Neo has sex with Trinity. So how are we supposed to interpret that? In one sense it seems appropriate (priests are dedicating themselves to God, or the Holy Trinity), but in another way it doesn't seem to be the message the Church intended. (via
Notes From the Lounge)
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In other news:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-flfchurch0427sbapr28,0,2394072.story
(Sorry about the long URL.)
Here's a little secret: Greg Tingle, who interviewed me, forgot to put a link to Part Three of the interview on his site. Just change the "2" in the address bar of the second part to a "3" to read it.
I share your hope that the current Pope will be different from his predecessors and make REAL change in the Catholic Church. No child deserves to be sexually abused by an authority figure.
Check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/5wn947
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=6131414
1.Cranky never said he was Catholic,quite the opposite actually.
2.What are you even talking about when you write?
3.If you are going to waste space on this site could you try, just TRY and make a little bit of sense and apply just a LITLE bit of logic when you write?
So how did you lot Wrap your Girdle's Roundabout the Earth and Shake your Kundalini's in the Magnetic Lay Line's to be a bonified member of the Original Order of the Garter of the Lo-re of the Earth that your sinful arse's are living on then! '$', mean's 'Curve', not bend over, Comprendi?
WTF!!! You mean to tell me that before this person discovered the Science of being that you were all none existent to your natural selves and needed some psychotic schitzo to tell you in half brained German term's that you exist! Wow!, that's like saying that you don't exist without science shoving their penis in you somewhere, and Stockholm syndrome isn't consciousness matey!
Try Spinning on a Lay Line Hot Spot and see if you can draw your Slack-Arse out of your underpants, and you might see that your God and Your Devil's got your face on it, not mine, so blame yourself for not having the intelligence to know when you've been here long enough to know!
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0129371520080701?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Here, $, a worm wrapped around a Crooked Spinal Rod to dig for a Bean!
When asked
"If God is a being that is unlimited in time, and if He has access to every piece of time as if it were now, the question of who created God is an invalid question."
OK, back up a bit. First, you're starting with the assumption that there IS a God. Then, you're making other assumptions on top of that.
You rejected the notion that matter can spontaneously come into being when you talked about the Big Bang but you accept the concept of an infinite being who has no origin. Isn't that every bit as absurd, if not more so, than the concept of a self-creating deity?
Now let us suppose that we made time run backwards! If we are located at a certain distance today, then yesterday we were closer together. The day before that, we were still closer. Ultimately, where must all the galaxies have been? At a point!At the beginning!Another proof is seen in the second law of thermodynamics. In any closed system,things tend to become disordered. If an automobile is driven for years and years without repair, it will become so disordered that it would not run any more. Getting old is simple conformity to the second law of thermodynamics. In space, things also get old. Astronomers refer to the aging process as heat death. If the cosmos is eternal nothing could be added to it to improve its order or repair it. Even a universe that expands and collapses and expands again forever would die because it would lose light and heat each time it expanded and rebounded.
the atheist's assertion that matter/energy is eternal is scientifically wrong. The biblical assertion that there was a beginning is scientifically correct.
In order for matter to come out of nothing, all of our scientific laws dealing with the conservation of matter/energy would have to be wrong, invalidating all of chemistry. All of our laws of conservation of angular momentum would have to be wrong, invalidating all of physics. All of our laws of conservation of electric charge would have to be wrong, invalidating all of electronics and demanding that your TV set not work! Your television set may not work, but that is not the reason! In order to believe matter is uncaused, one has to discard known laws and principles of science. No reasonable person is going to do this simply to maintain a personal atheistic position.The atheist's assertion that matter is eternal is wrong. The atheist's assertion that the universe is uncaused and selfexisting is also incorrect. The Bible's assertion that there was a beginning which was caused is supported strongly by the available scientific evidence.we are the product of an intelligent God.Talk to you soon Cranky Media Guy.
You believe in God not because it makes sense, but because you WANT to believe.
Here we go again, another Gun Powder Plot and a Scapegoat! Very Old Gaelich Welch Story about a Worm on a Wood, ie; $, or, the Roslynn Princes Winding Apprentice Pillar in German English, and for your Spineless Backside's and a "Get behind me Satan" for GMT in opposition to 25th March, ie; the other side of your brain you let get BSE, because half brain's cannot Tollerate the Truth about themselve's is the Simple Truth, and that a Simpleton's De Medici Psyche Medical Enigma on why men dribble like Pavlov's, lol!
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1215837340188710.xml&coll=1
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/07/16/Stop_dwelling_on_the_old_wounds_Bishop_Fisher_tells_sex_abuse_victims
1.Matter can not evolve or create itself.
2.Matter had a beginning.
3.If matter had a beginning and yet matter can not create itself how was matter created?
4.Did it remain dormant for years,and then one day decided to start expanding?
5.It could not of done that as matter's only function is to constantly expand.
6.Since matter could not of remained dormant for a time and since matter can't create itself and since matter had a beginning, yet constantly expands AND since matter was the FIRST thing to come ito existence in OUR WORLD, what we can logically conclude is that matter was created by an entity not of our world but one of a different world.What we can conclude is that matter the first thing to come into existence in our world, matter which can not create itself, was created by an intelligent designer, a.k.a. GOD. In conclusionI think it is safe to say it is logically accurate to believe in a God- and believe it or not I came up with that all on my own.the balls in your court now Atheist's- Let's play.