Posted on 09/03/2015 7:02:40 PM PDT by FR_addict
A simple oak chair built by immigrant laborers and devoid of the ornate trappings of power was unveiled Wednesday as the one Pope Francis will use later this month when he leads Mass at Madison Square Garden.
“Look at that, huh?” a smiling Cardinal Timothy Dolan said, lauding its simple design for reflecting the unpretentious man-of-the-people pontiff’s character.
“I’m not going to sit in it because that would be bad luck,” Dolan quipped.
The chair was built by day laborers from the Don Bosco Workers charity in Port Chester, rather than by expert craftsmen, something that was very important to the pope, Dolan said.
“He wanted something very simple. He wanted something wooden. He didn’t want any designs. So we’re very grateful to the workers and very proud of what that represents,” he said. ...
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Well, that's patent.
He’s a communist to boot.
“This unpretentious man is very pretentious.
How about that, huh? As the cardinal said.
Sheesh and double sheesh.
That’s great. Can you point us to the scripture that justifies this?
I heard the mass will be in Spanish. Perhaps we can deport all the “Latino” immigrants to the Vatican. I’m sure he will personally provide for them.
Like Chairman Mao wearing an ordinary suit. I get it.
I’m usually not a big union man, but I would prefer that it had been made with legal American union labor.
Actually it will be just like Eastwood’s chair even when this “Pope” is sitting in it. He has no credibility...empty robes!
And with your spirit.
I’m sorry, didn’t quite get your meaning. Justifies what?
An insult to the host country. (At least as it stands today)
Or, as Juan McCain would say, a Wacko Bird.
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