While Catholics stagger and stumble from one outrage after another coming from certain quarters in the Church the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano once again jumps right in with another exercise in cultural cluelessness. Now it is extolling the virtues of the newest James Bond film, with special emphasis on those lovely Bond girls!
RT reports: http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/vatican-newspaper-skyfall-bond-644/
Can someone please find me a sick bag?
With thousands of beautiful, touching, well-made films to talk about (all of them made prior to 1970 of course), films which could be the subject of intelligent and meaningful discussion, the Vatican newspaper instead chooses to write about such mind-numbing rubbish as the Bond films...and those hot Bond girls (who have not been so hot lately anyway).
Bond girls. Seriously discussed in the Pope's newspaper.
Just go ahead and keep on making the Church a laughingstock, you erstwhile editors of the Vatican newspaper. Keep extolling the virtues of rock music (an oxymoron if ever there was one), childish literature, bad music, poor architecture and stupid motion pictures. "We must engage the culture", say these liberal churchmen. Yes, we agree. But engage in it to uplift it. Instead of praising such things as the latest mindless Bond movies and all those sexy gals adorning it how about praising some films that will uplift as well as entertain, films made by people with brains and original ideas, films made by artists?
Perhaps that is asking too much.
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