Posted on 11/30/2006 12:41:58 PM PST by Caleb1411
Next spring, the University of Minnesota will stage "The Pope and the Witch," by Italian radical playwright Dario Fo. The play "features a paranoid, drug-addled pope, a witch in a nun's habit and a chaotic comedy of errors," according to a Star Tribune report. It depicts "the Vatican as corrupt," according to the Pioneer Press.
Apparently the comic genius of it all is lost on Archbishop Harry Flynn of the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He has asked the U to consider withdrawing the play. But earlier this month, university President Robert Bruininks and the regents said the show must go on.
So here's a preview of what we'll see next March, courtesy of Minnesota's flagship institution of higher learning.
"The pope is in crisis," explains the University of Minnesota's website. "100,000 poor, starving orphans from Third World countries are arriving in St. Peter's Square in what he believes is a plot by fanatical birth control activists to embarrass him and the church." Overwrought, the pope has a "crucifixion stroke," which freezes his arms in an outstretched position.
A witch cures the pope using hypnosis and a tractionlike device on which he is mounted as if in flight. The Vatican, we discover, is connected to a vast heroin-smuggling enterprise. As the play ends, the pope issues an encyclical announcing that he, like the witch, now supports drug legalization, and no longer sees "a condom as the devil's raincoat."
In case you missed the point, the U's website spells it out: "[I]t is easy for a rich church to rage against abortion when millions are born into poverty, and become victims of the drug trade, from which people under the Vatican's protection can fill their pockets."
The U often trumpets its rejection of "racism, sexism,
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Don't hold your breath.
Pathetic. No Voltaire Fo.
The problem is that people take this fictional junk seriously.
If this were set up at the DNC, it would be more likely to be true than as displayed.
Just say no to libel and slander, especially by aging, bitter Italian Marxists.
I came away quite convinced that I had been mis-informed.
Ain't it funny how anyone can say anything about a Christian today? I mean, anything. And it's just protected speech.
I would advise the folks at this "university" not to try something like this with Muslims.
Man they better not show that play...I mean the riots, killing and destruction of property will be outrageous. Those Catholics are crazy!!!/ sarcasm.
Actually, they could come on down to Chapel Hill and give the locals yet another frisson thrill. Seems their lives are too bland overall (and I say this having been there).
I guess the U feels the need to instruct their students.
Perhaps they can also post some Rosie O'Donnell quotes. She's on TV, she must know what she's talking about.
Well, this doesn't sound promising, but I loved "Accidental death of an anarchist"...
Liberal politics, nothing more.
Don't ever get between a liberal and their desire to kill babies.
I guess this alum has given his last dollar to the U of M.
I suggest you sign this online petition (protest) to the president of the U of Minn. It's very simple. Tell him you won't give a dime to any of his university's fund drives as long as he allows anti-Catholic rubish on campus like the "Pope and the Witch."
http://www.tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/univ_minnesota_blasphemy.htm
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