I’m making a list …
Wow! Forget Macy’s - if anyone wants to buy me a holiday gift, it’s one-stop-shopping:
Those with loftier ambitions might enjoy the Vatican’s answer to Monopoly, a board game in which the winner is elected the pontiff.
Up to six “cardinals” play the game, rolling the dice in the quest to become papabile, and encountering all the usual Catholic preoccupations on the way, from theological censorship and Latin liturgical texts to beatification politics and visions of long-dead saints.
Perfect for our MRev “game nites” though I’m sure Alex will somehow find a way to make it Strip-Vaticanopoly …
it’s a marshmallow world!
These are among gifts of questionable taste included in a “12 days of Kitschmas” list unveiled yesterday by Ship of Fools, a satirical Christian website. The items have been selected by Stephen Goddard, a former Church of England press officer, and Simon Jenkins, the website’s editor, to highlight the absurdity of religious kitsch.
One of the favourites is a calendar in which scantily clad models pose in front of a range of wood coffins, created by a firm of undertakers in Rome. Described by the website as the “Pirelli Calendar for morticians”, it is on sale for 3.50 euros.
Check ‘em out here. No mention of the sexy priest calendar, though.
Forgive me, Father.
Mmmmmmmm, strip Vaticanopoly….
I’ve got the perfect wimple for this!
But do you have a confessional?
I had an Our Lady of Lourdes snow globe/perpetual calendar (in French!) but those poltergeists who hanunt cluttered apartments took it
Er, that should read, “haunt cluttered apartments. . . . “
I want that sexy priest calendar in the worst way!
Yeah, the ol’ pontiff does bear a more than passing resemblance to the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
Confessional?
Sure. The third stall over in the men’s room at the Minneapolis airport…