Dodgy pope-oshopping riles Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI has been busy showing off his rabid right wing credentials recently. A court has ordered the Italian branch of Indymedia to suspend its activities because it published a photoshopped image of the pope in a Nazi uniform which was “offensive to the Catholic Church” – a crime punishable by up to one year in jail.
Happily, Indymedia have ignored the order, and both the website and the offending image are still up and running. Forza!
In another example of Vatican bullying, the editor of an influential Jesuit weekly mag has been forced to resign. Thomas J Reese edited America for seven years, and was a thorn in the side of the then Cardinal Ratzinger. Hardly surprising when the liberal Jesuit editor can come out with a statement such as this:
A church that cannot openly discuss issues is a church retreating into an intellectual ghetto.
The cheek of it.
Surely they should be jailed for a year for the appalling quality of their photoshopping.
Did the BNP complain?
After all the time they spent creating their new public image as decent law-abiding folk the last thing they need is to be associated with an old hypocrite who covers up for kiddy-fiddlers.
I need a copy of this picture.
richt-click, save as…
Aha! Hhmmm why didn’t I think of that?!
because you’re closedminded?