Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
The Roman Church: Unable to have sex? You can’t marry.
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
I admit, I didn’t know about this. And I was pretty shocked to read that a young Italian couple from Viterbo, was prevented from getting married after the man was victim of a bad car accident and was forced on a wheelchair for the rest of his life. So, basically, according to the Roman Church, that should promote unconditioned love, one of the prerequisites to marry the woman you love is being able to have an erection. Amazing stuff. The guy pictured on the right is bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli, who refused to meet the young couple and was the one responsible for denying the wedding. You can read the original article here. (in italian)
Congratulations Lorenzo, I’m not even sure why I posted your face on my blog wasting kilobytes of precious bandwidth, but I guess I want people to look in the face the guy that denied two persons truly in love with each other to have their marriage.
The couple was of course still able to get married by civil ceremony, because the Italian laws, strangely enough, do not require penis erections in order to be able to marry young couples.
Padre Pio
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Padre Pio was apparently faking his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to historian Sergio Luzzatto.
A document found in the Vatican archive reveals how the “saint” (lol) was secretly getting the acid from a pharmacist:
“I was an admirer of Padre Pio and I met him for the first time on 31 July 1919,” wrote Maria De Vito.
She claimed to have spent a month with the priest in the southern town of San Giovanni Rotondo, seeing him often.“Padre Pio called me to him in complete secrecy and telling me not to tell his fellow brothers, he gave me personally an empty bottle, and asked if I would act as a chauffeur to transport it back from Foggia to San Giovanni Rotondo with four grams of pure carbolic acid.
“He explained that the acid was for disinfecting syringes for injections. He also asked for other things, such as Valda pastilles.”
As expected, the Catholic Church immediately dismissed the news and said Mr. Luzzatto is a “liar” and was “spreading anti-Catholic libels”.
I personally think they are right.
Not only Padre Pio’s stigmata is real, but he was also able to transform into a werewolf and shoot lightning bolts from his eyes.
I saw him once kicking Batman’s ass, too.
I swear, its true.
