Posted on 08/03/2010 7:54:39 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
The online store is offering a baseball cap, a jacket and a range of T-shirts bearing Benedict XVI’s image and the motto of the historic trip – Heart speaks unto heart.
One of the shirts, costing £20, can be customised to include the name of the pilgrim’s local church.
Also on sale are a flag and an £8 electronic flashing candle, which can be waved during the open-air events just as music fans hold cigarette lighters aloft at festivals.
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The online store for the first-ever state papal visit to Britain, which coincides with London Fashion Week, is also selling a £30 blue bracelet featuring “bling” Swarovski crystals.
More traditional items include bookmarks, fridge magnets, keyrings, mugs, plates and a glossy programme.
For the particularly devout there are candles, rosary beads and crosses.
The Roman Catholic hierarchies of England and Wales, and Scotland, will be hoping that sales help cover their costs associated with the visit, likely to be more than £7million.
But there is also a brisk trade in unofficial merchandise, with a website called Catholics With Attitude selling hooded tops bearing slogans such as “Vatican All Stars”, “Team Benedict” and “Top of the Popes”.
The National Secular Society, which is planning public protests during the visit, is selling T-shirts bearing the message “Pope Nope”.
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Your premise is ridiculous, since it’s the very Catholic Church that you criticize that is doing more than any other religious body in the world in doing exactly that. In fact, the whole “feeding the hungry, clothing the poor” duty is encouraged in Catholic teaching through what is labeled the Corporal Works of Mercy. I encourage you to look into that.
Another wrong premise- veneration of the saints doesn't "take away" from Jesus, but glorifies Him by recognizing those who best followed Him. It's not an either/or proposition, but a both/and.
Do not make the issue about me.
Sources? You have anything to back that up?
Please accept my apology.
Apology accepted. :-)
Time directed towards someone else is time taken away from God.
Prayer offered to anyone else is less prayer directed to God.
Money spent on trivial useless trinkets is money not given to God.
well ok then..;)
He seems more interested in politics and appears to have better things to do but I could be wrong.
Do you know otherwise?
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I did not know that! Is it the Bilderberger's or the Illuminati who are really running the show? Or the Democrat Party?
Prayer offered to anyone else is less prayer directed to God.
Money spent on trivial useless trinkets is money not given to God.
Can you provide citation for these doctrines or are they metmom originals?
Indeed, who are the movers and shakers behind the Pope?
You, mas, first spoke of the string-pullers who hide in shadows. This was your post 95. Perhaps you could fill us in.
For the edification of all:
From Wikipedia:
The pope (from Latin: papa; from Greek: πάππας (pappas), an affectionate word for father) is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church (that is, the Latin Rite and the Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the see of Rome). The current office-holder is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected in a papal conclave on 19 April 2005. The office of the pope is known as the Papacy. His ecclesiastical jurisdiction is often called the "Holy See" (Sancta Sedes in Latin), or the "Apostolic See" on the basis that the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul were martyred in Rome. The pope is also head of state of Vatican City State, a sovereign city-state entirely enclaved within the city of Rome.
And a third to lies told by bornigans....
I suspect that your conjecture is at least 90% correct.
So what are you saying? That Obama pulls the Pope’s strings. Or George Soros?
No. String-pullers work against the Church and Christian morality.
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