{"id":93375,"date":"2015-07-10T11:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=93375"},"modified":"2015-07-10T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:15:30","slug":"pope-receives-summer-re-education-camp-arts-and-crafts-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/07\/pope-receives-summer-re-education-camp-arts-and-crafts-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Receives Summer Re-Education Camp Arts and Crafts Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So the Pope is in South America right now and at a recent audience, some guy brought him a geegaw as a diplomatic gift. It\u2019s a truly ugly reworking of a hammer and sickle into a crucifix, and the pope\u2019s magnificent \u201cWhat the WTF?\u201d expression .brings tears of laughter to my eyes. Here, watch for yourself:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I often wonder how many such crappy art projects are squirreled away in the Vatican equivalent of Warehouse 13, awaiting some future spelunker a thousand years from now who will find it, shrouded in cobwebs and dust and ask, \u201cWhat the <em>hell<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis is, of course, polite (as you are when you get that VISIT ATLANTIC CITY battery powered necktie for Christmas from your brother-in-law). But it\u2019s not very hard to see that this cringeworthy attempt by a Commie to suck up to the Church is\u2026 well\u2026 cringeworthy. His remark on this piece of kitsch was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/southamerica\/bolivia\/11729834\/Pope-rebukes-Bolivias-President-Evo-Morales-for-gift-of-crucifix-mounted-on-hammer-and-sickle.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">That\u2019s not right<\/a>\u201d (delivered, I like to imagine, this way):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pXnJELh78qs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But, of course, that\u2019s not good enough for the Reactionaries at Pewsitter and similar sites, who are freaking out about \u201cFrancisChurch\u201d and \u201cCommie Jesus\u201d and similar rubbish. <\/p>\n<p>Me: I think the image of Francis looking in bafflement at that\u2026 thing is just hilarious and makes me wonder how many other winceable art projects, knicknack, tschotschkes, and trinkets the pope has to hand off to some luckless functionary every day\u2013and where it all goes. Somebody should write a book about that. Meanwhile, I content myself with this image:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KORmZi9Q7K4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Pope is in South America right now and at a recent audience, some guy brought him a geegaw as a diplomatic gift. It\u2019s a truly ugly reworking of a hammer and sickle into a crucifix, and the pope\u2019s magnificent \u201cWhat the WTF?\u201d expression .brings tears of laughter to my eyes. 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