Bis pueri senes?
This is supposed to be a rehearsal of some sort. I don’t know for which event.
I really want to just smile and shrug this off. I suspect this isn’t what Pope Francis meant when he said that we clerics have to get out there.
This is too far out there.
DISCLAIMER: Some mouth-breathers out there will claim that I tried to compare WYD to some sort of Nazi rally. That is NOT what I am about to do. If there is a better image of non-conformity within a large, uniformed crowd doing something that is just plain wrong, please send it to me.
It is easy for us, in a crowd, in a mob – wherein there is that unpredictable n+x factor involved – to lose our heads and do what everyone else does in the pressure of the moment. But, Your Excellencies, after watching this, … really?!?
The next time they ask you to do something like this, and they will, please – be that guy? ALL of you?
Meanwhile…. Sirach 3:12-14.
I will keep the combox CLOSED on this.