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”.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Matthew 21:13
“It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’ “
Mark 11:17
And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’ ? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ “
Luke 19:46
“It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be a house of prayer’ ; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’ “
Pity the person who looks to make a buck (or pound) off of God or Jesus. I sure wouldn’t want to be standing in their shoes on Judgment Day.
You just painted a BIG bullseye on your back.
INCOMING.........
Thank you for the welcome.
Do you interpret those scripture passages to mean it is a sin to bury the dead? ...or a sin to venerate saintly relics?
Yep, that’s gonna leave a mark..GOOD POST, nmh!
FOTFLOL!!!!!!!
That’s funny.
What a marketing idea. They’re probably slapping themselves on the head for not thinking of that one themselves.
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Don't forget what St. Paul said about the Crucifixion of Our Lord. "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and unto the Gentiles foolishness." If the death of Our Lord itself is a "stumbling block" and "foolishness," then it's not surprising that to some eyes, something lesser, such as the veneration of the saints' relics, would appear to be "ridiculous."
Matthew 8:20
Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
Luke 9:58
Jesus replied, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
Back in those days, men took the principle of truth seriously. Today, everything is relative.
Matthew 8:20 Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
Luke 9:58 Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
If you read it thoroughly enough, you'd discover that the plenary indulgences are NOT being dispensed for a charge.
From the article you linked to:
According to church teaching, even after sinners are absolved in the confessional and say their Our Fathers or Hail Marys as penance, they still face punishment after death, in Purgatory, before they can enter heaven. In exchange for certain prayers, devotions or pilgrimages in special years, a Catholic can receive an indulgence, which reduces or erases that punishment instantly, with no formal ceremony or sacrament.
How disgusting......
How can these people do all this with a straight face?
Idolaters never admit to worshiping false idols.
The Pope is openly a monarch but, unfortunately, he has far less power than the string-pullers who hide in shadows.
Not the at all significantly different than the Buddhists et al carrying their idols through the streets of Taipei on their “Holy Days.”
Even the flower arrangements can be quite similar.
Indeed . . .
unwittingly worshiping a UFO critter playing a role.
That is the biggest leap to ridiculous conclusions I think I've ever seen. Evil Kneivel himself could not have made that jump. Nor would he have attempted it.
Spreaders of heresies and lies about the Catholic Church never admit they do exactly that. How about them apples?
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