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103. A Vatican Blessing for David Bowie

The Vatican’s cultural minister, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, wrote a generous appreciation this week of the late David Bowie, whom he described as a great, if tormented, artist and a lifelong spiritual searcher:

He prayed, in the depths of his addictions and lacerating questions: “Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing / And I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things.”

But Bowie’s quest was unfinished and it did not cease to torment him, while always enriching his art. In those days – he himself told us – he wore for many years a small silver crucifix. His was a search, a questioning, that went to a greater height and plumbed a deeper mystery than any answers or responses were able to reach.

It was mildly surprising to see a prominent Catholic Church official speak so warmly of a rock star. But it was fitting: Speaking well of the deceased is what decent people do.

But then the ratty ones started putting him down.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/a-vatican-blessing-for-david-bowie/