[Catholic Caucus] Italian bishops’ newspaper — Avvenire, publishes another blasphemous cartoon

Call Me Jorge ^ | March 3, 2018 | Here is Jorge

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Italian bishops’ newspaper — Avvenire, publishes another blasphemous cartoon

Sergio Staino drawing a cartoon.

The Avvenire, a Roman Catholic newspaper published in Milan, Italy, has an ongoing cartoon, la domenica di Staino, which depicts the life of Our Lord Jesus the Christ.  La domenica di Staino translates into English as the Sunday of Staino.  The Staino in question is one Sergio Staino the cartoonist and writer responsible for the comic strip.  Often times the strip is sacrilegious and blasphemous but this particular cartoon of was so terrible we at Call Me Jorge... had to comment on it.  Not surprisingly, Mr. Staino is a card-carrying member of the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics.  Keep in mind that this paper is owned by Italian Episcopal Conference, so it is de facto the official mouthpiece of Italy’s bishops.

— English translation —

Jesus: Oh, hi Magdalena!

Mary Magdalene: How do you like it? …Isn’t my headdress nice?

Jesus: Oh my God, let me say yes… Say yes! …Say yes!

Mary Magdalene:  Well?

Jesus: It’s horrible!

Mary Magdalene: [SLAP!!]

Jesus: Father, Father… Why am I condemned to always have to tell the truth?

The whole vignette above sows heresy. The cartoon portrays Jesus and Mary Magdalene as husband and wife having a marital spat.  What happened to the Chasity of Our Lord?  Why would Mary Magdalene slap her Savior?  Why would Jesus question His Father?  Why is Christ reduced to the role of a cuckold with a vain and overbearing wife?  This particular cartoon not only mocks Our Lord but also profanes Him as it inverts and perverts the story of Mary Magdalene.

We imagine that if Francis saw this cartoon, he would laugh heartily, thinking it good fun along with the bishops responsible for its printing.  After all, Francis not only relishes telling blasphemous jokes about Our Lord, he loves doing this.  That this strip was published by the official organ of the Italian bishops should send chills down those who believe the Novus Ordo is Catholic.

[SaxxonWoods]

“Why would Jesus question His Father?”

Why not? He did so from the Cross.

The daily sacrilege that emanates from this Pope is much worse than this harmless cartoon.

[Petrosius]

Why not? He did so from the Cross.

You do realize that our Lord's words from the cross were the opening lines of Psalm 22 which describes his crucifixion and expresses complete trust in God:

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Why so far from my call for help,
from my cries of anguish?

My God, I call by day, but you do not answer;
by night, but I have no relief.

Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the glory of Israel.

In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted and you rescued them.

To you they cried out and they escaped;
in you they trusted and were not disappointed.

But I am a worm, not a man,
scorned by men, despised by the people.

All who see me mock me;
they curl their lips and jeer;
they shake their heads at me:

“He relied on the LORD—let him deliver him;
if he loves him, let him rescue him.”

For you drew me forth from the womb,
made me safe at my mother’s breasts.

Upon you I was thrust from the womb;
since my mother bore me you are my God.

Do not stay far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is no one to help.

Many bulls surround me;
fierce bulls of Bashan encircle me.

They open their mouths against me,
lions that rend and roar.

Like water my life drains away;
all my bones are disjointed.
My heart has become like wax,
it melts away within me.

As dry as a potsherd is my throat;
my tongue cleaves to my palate;
you lay me in the dust of death.

Dogs surround me;
a pack of evildoers closes in on me.
They have pierced my hands and my feet

I can count all my bones.
They stare at me and gloat;

they divide my garments among them;
for my clothing they cast lots.

But you, LORD, do not stay far off;
my strength, come quickly to help me.

Deliver my soul from the sword,
my life from the grip of the dog.

Save me from the lion’s mouth,
my poor life from the horns of wild bulls.

Then I will proclaim your name to my brethren;
in the assembly I will praise you:

“You who fear the LORD, give praise!
All descendants of Jacob, give honor;
show reverence, all descendants of Israel!

For he has not spurned or disdained
the misery of this poor wretch,
Did not turn away from me,
but heard me when I cried out.

I will offer praise in the great assembly;
my vows I will fulfill before those who fear him.

The poor will eat their fill;
those who seek the LORD will offer praise.
May your hearts enjoy life forever!”

All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD;
All the families of nations
will bow low before him.

For kingship belongs to the LORD,
the ruler over the nations.

All who sleep in the earth
will bow low before God;
All who have gone down into the dust
will kneel in homage.

And I will live for the LORD;
my descendants will serve you.

The generation to come will be told of the Lord,
that they may proclaim to a people yet unborn
the deliverance you have brought.

[SaxxonWoods]

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/naples-archdiocese-rocked-by-scandal-drugs-gay-prostitution-blackmail

[zeugma]

In my personal opinion, He wasn’t saying he was being forsaken. He was merely quoting the psalm, because the Psalm was prophecing what was happening to him at the moment. I’ve seen all kinds of folks saying that his human incarnation was being spiritually separated. More likely he was attmpting to tell people to look for him in scripture, among other things