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‘Jesus died for somebody’s sins’: Patti Smith invited to perform at Vatican Christmas concert!
11.14.2014
01:13 pm
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...in excelsis deo

You have to commend Pope Francis for his good taste in music—it’s been announced that Patti Smith is slated to perform at the Vatican Christmas Concert in Rome—but you have to wonder if he’s ever heard The Patti Smith Group’s cover of “Gloria”?

You read that right, the poet/singer who shocked an entire nation nearly forty years ago singing “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine” on Saturday Night Live back in 1976 was asked to take part in the festivities at the Auditorium Conciliazione on December 13th after Pope Francis personally invited her, according to The International Business Times.

Obviously Smith, who shook hands with the Pontiff at St. Peter’s Square last April, is an odd choice of performer for the Catholic Church to make and already certain groups are up in arms about it.

The Holy See’s announcement of Smith’s participation comes as one Catholic group is trying to ban “blasphemous” Smith from playing a gig at the Basilica of San Giovanni Maggiore in Naples set for four days prior to the Vatican concert.

The entire event is set to be broadcast live on TV.

Below, Smith on SNL in 1976. I saw this as it went down on live TV when I was ten years old. It might not seem as shocking now, but back then it was absolutely inconceivable that someone would do or say something like this on television. The date was April 17, 1976 and since Smith didn’t go on until after midnight, this meant that she technically sang this on Easter Sunday!
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.14.2014
01:13 pm
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Vatican spells ‘Jesus’ wrong on 6,000 papal medals
10.11.2013
01:56 pm
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Now that Pope Francis has signaled, in the Jesuit magazine America, a desire to pull back “on issues related to abortion, gay marriage, and the use of contraceptive methods,” the Vatican finally has an occupant that even liberals can learn to love.

Pope Francis is apparently even challenging the doctrine of papal infallibility.

The Italian State Mint recently issued a set of gold, silver, and bronze medals to commemorate the beginning of Pope Francis’s papacy—but a key error was spotted after the production process.

Referring to a pivotal quotation that inspired the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio to seek his destiny in the Catholic Church, the medallions were suppsosed to read, “Vidit ergo Jesus publicanum et quia miserando antque eligendo vidit, ait illi sequere me” (“Jesus therefore sees the tax collector, and since he sees by having mercy and by choosing, he says to him, follow me”), but instead the medallions read, “Vidit ergo Lesus publicanum et quia miserando antque eligendo vidit, ait illi sequere me.”

The Vatican has recalled the six thousand medals. Four of the medals had been sold before the recall, according to the Vatican press office. Those lucky people may have received a keepsake that may become a valuable collector’s item someday—praise Lesus!
 
via Spiegel Online

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
The Pope after apologizing to U.K. victims of priestly abuse

Posted by Martin Schneider
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10.11.2013
01:56 pm
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Odd couple: Patti Smith meets the Pope
04.10.2013
10:46 pm
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Patti Smith pressed the flesh with Pope Francis yesterday on St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. They seemed to have hit it off.

I’m keeping my mouth shut. I like Patti.

 

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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04.10.2013
10:46 pm
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