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Sacrilegious glory: See Fellini’s Vatican fashion show, including what was censored by the church!
09.28.2015
09:42 am
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Federico Fellini’s Roma isn’t one of his more popular films by a long shot, perhaps partially because it’s such an hardhearted departure from his previously dreamy and romantic depictions of Rome. As a partial autobiography, the film begins with the story of young Federico’s move to the idyllic city he had fallen in love with from the movies. Flash forward to modern day, and Fellini the successful director is attempting to film the new Rome, busy, noisy, dirty, dilapidated, and gaudy—the apex of which is captured in a truly tasteless Vatican fashion show.
 

 
Despite Fellini’s ambivalent beliefs and later interest in the supernatural, he always identified as Catholic, a loyalty the church never really seemed to appreciate. The Vatican actually censored some of his movies, Roma obviously was among them. You can’t blame them too much either—the garish spectacle of Catholic haute couture does seem to make a mockery of the church, with clergy on rollerskates and nuns in elaborate headgear. The garishness of it all got the scene edited down quite a bit, but you can see the uncensored version below, in all its sacrilegious glory.
 

Posted by Amber Frost
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09.28.2015
09:42 am
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Topless male acrobats perform ‘sexy time’ for Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican
12.15.2010
03:08 pm
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It’s an early Christmas for Pope Benedict XVI this year.

(via TDW)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.15.2010
03:08 pm
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Official Vatican newspaper has declared that Homer Simpson is a Catholic in good standing
10.20.2010
03:13 am
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I was born into Catholicism. Can I be un-baptised? These fuckers are nuts.

The official Vatican newspaper has declared that beer-swilling, doughnut-loving Homer Simpson and son Bart are Catholics — and what’s more, it says that parents should not be afraid to let their children watch “the adventures of the little guys in yellow.”
“Few people know it, and he does everything to hide it. But it’s true: Homer J. Simpson is Catholic,” the Osservatore Romano newspaper said in an article on Sunday headlined “Homer and Bart are Catholics.”

If Jesus were alive he’d probably find this hysterical…and pathetic.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.20.2010
03:13 am
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Sell the Vatican, Feed the World
10.13.2009
08:58 pm
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This is one of the most enlightened solutions to the world’s problems I’ve ever heard.

(Sell the Vatican, Feed the World via Osocio)

Posted by Jason Louv
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10.13.2009
08:58 pm
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