Pope To Identify With Catholic Youth By Giving Up On Catholicism

I didn’t see this one coming. From The Onion:

And here’s the discussion question – all you readers can be part of the editorial committee for a bit: Is this over the line editorially? I don’t think so, but then I can laugh at just about anything.

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Anthony Ruff, OSB

Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John's Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.

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9 responses to “Pope To Identify With Catholic Youth By Giving Up On Catholicism”

  1. Fr. Jack Feehily

    Very clever and a nice comic relief.

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  2. Christian Cosas

    No, it’s not over the line, and like all good satire, it acknowledges a painful truth.

    (I hope nobody needs to point out what that truth is.)

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  3. John Drake

    Mildly amusing.

    Funnier was the crawl that read “Before death, Ravi Shankar realizes he was holding sitar upside down whole time.”

    Back to the Pope: At least the Onion need not worry about the Pope issuing a fatwa on them!

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  4. Fritz Bauerschmidt

    If this is parodying anything, it is the callow dismissal of Catholicism by young adults. So I’m all for it.

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    1. Fr. Allan J. McDonald

      @Fritz Bauerschmidt – comment #4:
      That’s how I took it too and is this really anything new? The babyboomer generation in the 1960’s and 70’s did the same thing.

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    2. Bruce Ludwick, Jr.

      @Fritz Bauerschmidt – comment #4:
      Ditto.

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    3. Samuel J. Howard

      @Fritz Bauerschmidt – comment #4:
      And also the pandering of certain older adults! (Not you.)

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  5. Robert Nugent, SDS

    I loved it but would only send it to a few carefully chosen
    individuals and definitely not post it on my Face Book page!

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  6. Robert Homan

    I’m a college-aged Catholic and I posted it on my Facebook page.. I think it’s actually pretty positive on Catholicism and is satiring youth more than the Church

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