Bush Appoints Chick With Crazy Jesus-Eyes as Ambasador to The Vatican

[Ian David]

Views mixed on Bush pick for envoy to Vatican
Harvard professor is called conciliatory


Mary Ann Glendon was an adviser to Pope John Paul II and has tiny little crazy Jesus-Eyes set way too far apart.

By Peter Schworm
Globe Staff / November 7, 2007

Mary Ann Glendon, a prominent legal scholar and a papal adviser poised to become the next US ambassador to the Vatican, is known for staunchly defending Catholic doctrine while striking a conciliatory tone with opponents, colleagues said yesterday.
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Supporters said Glendon would bring a measured sensibility to a politically sensitive position, but opponents criticized her as a social conservative in lockstep with the Vatican's opposition to contraception and gay marriage. In recent years, Glendon has been a leading legal specialist on same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and was tapped this summer to lead an advisory group on judicial matters for presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

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Glendon, 69, also an opponent of abortion rights, is considered an authority on family law and social policy, bioethics, and international human rights. In 2004, she became the highest-ranking female adviser in the church when Pope John Paul II chose her to lead the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a powerful panel that helps the church establish social policy.

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"American political opinion is often at odds with the Catholic Church," Flynn said. "It's a fine line you have to walk, and sometimes it can be very difficult. But she's really not a political person. She approaches a lot of issues from a legal standpoint and keeps personal opinions out of the mix."

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/11/07/views_mixed_on_bush_pick_for_envoy_to_vatican/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News

Bush loves Crazy Jesus-Eyes!

[woodsprite]

1. Anybody think she reminds them of Harriet? n/t

[MichaelHarris]

2. everyone one of those people

smoked a fattie right before they had their picture taken. Someone need to let them know about Visine.

[SoCalDem]

3. Won't the chains hanging from her underpants set off the airport security thingy?

One of the most senior Italian members of Opus Dei, the ultra-conservative Catholic movement, has advocated the use of a vicious spiked chain designed for self-torture in the name of God.

Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei
Founder of Opus Dei Josemaria Escriva stipulated self-harm is mandatory

Paola Binetti, a senator in the government, admitted in a television interview that she has used a metal cilice, which is wrapped around the upper thigh for two hours a day and leaves small pin-pricks.

"It forces us to reflect on the hardship of life and the sacrifices of the mother who has to wake up in the night because her child is wailing," she said.

Originally, a cilice was a hair-shirt, or any garment designed to cause its wearer discomfort. The metal cilice is the most controversial of the tools used by members of Opus Dei to inflict self-harm.

Generally, members of the order are reluctant to admit that they use them and go as far as to avoid wearing swimming costumes around non-Opus members. Recently, it was used by Brother Silas in the film of The Da Vinci Code.

Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, stipulated that self-harm is mandatory if one wishes to live the "Spirit of Opus Dei" fully.

In his book The Way, he wrote: "Blessed be pain. Loved be pain. Sanctified be pain. . . glorified be pain!"

Aside from the metal cilice, some members of the Opus use a "discipline", a whip that is used once a week on the back. They also take cold showers, remain silent or fast.


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http://www.odan.org/corporal_mortification.htm

[Dorian Gray]

8. My favorite quote in that article:

"Generally, members of the order are reluctant to admit that they use them and go as far as to avoid wearing swimming costumes around non-Opus members. Recently, it was used by Brother Silas in the film of The Da Vinci Code."

Like Brother Silas is a real human being, wearing the cilice. Hah.



Also, did I miss in the article where she was a member of Opus Dei?

[SoCalDem]

9. Nope..but I'm guessing that she might be..

If she's that well-connected and going to the Vatican, it would seem possible to me.. :)

[SoCalDem]

10. I guessed correctly :) here she is at the Opus Dei "prom" or whatever they call it

http://www.opusdei.us/art.php?p=5234

[KittyWampus]

27. The 'Opus Dei Prom'! lolololol Now there's another funny concept for a SNL skit

that will never get done.

[malaise]

30. I nearly fell off my chair laughing at those photos

:rofl:

[Raven]

4. I've known Mary Ann Glendon for years.

She is a brilliant legal scholar, a very decent person. She was a great friend of my father's and, in fact, lived down the street from us in Newton. She is about as far to the right as you can get on Catholic issues and on sexual politics but you can actually have a reasoned discussion with her. Knowing her, this would be her dream job.

[Hekate]

29. Thank you Raven for adding the voice of facts and reason. nt

[Sanity Claws]

5. A scholar as an Ambassador

This is a huge improvement over past appointees, most of whom were wholly unqualified except they made huge contributions to Republicans.

[Ian David]

7. And then there's Victor Ashe (some people say). n/t

[NNN0LHI]

6. I know I've been saying that people who think we have been invaded by space creatures are nuts

Can I take a step back from that statement?

Don

[LibertyLover]

11. If I recall the book, The Theocons, correctly

Ms. Glendon is one of those individuals working to enmesh the US government with Christian, specifically Catholic, religious conservative views. She is a fellow traveler with Weyrich, Neuhaus, Novak and Weigel. Lovely. :sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

12. An article she wrote in 2002

http://sandbox.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2096&var_recherche=opus


The Hour of the Laity
by Mary Ann Glendon

Copyright (c) 2002 First Things (November 2002).

Throughout the twentieth century, leaders of the Catholic Church implored lay men and women with increasing urgency to be more active as Catholics in society, and-since Vatican II-to become more involved in the internal affairs of the Church. The earlier call found a warm response among Catholic Americans in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. But as Catholics gained in affluence and influence, the lay apostolate has suffered, while new opportunities for service in the institutional Church have gone begging. No wonder that John Paul II, with his history of close collaboration with lay men and women, often refers to the laity as a “sleeping giant.” For decades, the giant has seemed lost in the deep slumber of an adolescent. Now that the sleeper is beginning to stir-roused by media coverage of clerical sexual misconduct-it is beginning to look as though the Leviathan has the faith I.Q. of a pre-adolescent. Can this be the long-awaited “hour of the laity”?

The current resurgence of interest in lay organization suggests that the time is ripe to explore what has happened to American Catholics’ understanding of the lay vocation over the years during which they made unprecedented economic and social advances. Are the sixty-three million or so Catholics who comprise over a fifth of the U.S. population evangelizing the culture, as every Christian is called to do, or is the culture evangelizing them?

Since poets and novelists often help us to see things afresh, I propose to approach that question through a lens borrowed from an acute literary observer of the modern world. The protagonist of Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller is arguably not a person, but a group-a nomadic tribe of rainforest-dwellers. To outsiders, they are known as the Machiguengas, but they call themselves the people-who-walk. The reader never meets the Machiguengas face to face; we only hear of them from a narrator who is trying to find out whether the tribe still exists. We learn that from time immemorial, the stories and traditions of the people-who-walk were remembered, enriched, and handed down by habladors-storytellers. These stories helped the tribe to maintain its identity-to keep on walking no matter what, through many changes and crises. But as the rainforest gave way to agriculture and industry, the Machiguengas scattered. For a time, their habladors traveled from one cluster of families to another and kept them bound together. The storytellers “were the living sap that circulated and made the Machiguengas into a society, a people of interconnected and interdependent beings.” But anthropologists think that the storytellers eventually died out, that the Machiguengas were absorbed into cities and villages, and that their stories survive only as entertainment. The narrator suspects otherwise, and the drama of the novel comes from his effort to find out whether it is really true that a mysterious red-haired stranger has become the hablador of the Machiguengas so that they will not lose their stories and their sense of who they are.

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[onelittleindian]

13. crazy jesus eyes

I looked at the picture provided and did not see crazy jesus eyes and I have never heard of the term.
did Jesus have crazy jesus eyes? this comment shows that some of us posting are childish and have nothing to add. instead of bashing her looks, lets bash her for trying to take away a right established by the courts, ROE !

I notice that my co workers that make bull shit comments like this are those with no ideas and then complain about not going anywhere. why should the vatican have an envoy anyway!

[Ian David]

14. No, Jesus (as far as I know) didn't have Crazy Eyes.

Religion is a drug.

And like any drug, it can be used or misued or abused.

There's a crazy look that people stung-out on too much of The Holy Spirit get, and this lady has it.

See also:


"Crazy Runaway Bride Eyes."

[onelittleindian]

15. Is that a young Nancy Pelosi ?

[SoCalDem]

16. Maybe it's your Mom

:)

[Ian David]

18. No, that's not his Mom. Then again, I've never seen his mom with the lights on. n/t

[onelittleindian]

20. My Mom!

You haven't seen my mom with the lights on because anyone supporting kucinich does not see the light.
He cannot be elected and should step aside or go on a ufo trip. let the real candidates take the stage. It's the big three and the rest. Kucinich is one of the rest. Other that the shirley McClain crowd he has no chance. Hillary would be a good VP for John Edwards!

[Ian David]

24. That's what your mom said to me last night, too.

You know I'm just messin' with you, right?

[Ian David]

17. Ooh, you're bad! bad! Bad! See also:

[Javaman]

19. I prefer crazy in the glased eyes look, but crazy jesus eyes works well. LOL nt

[book_worm]

21. The lady in the third picture looks uncannily like Carol Channing!

I think she would be a great Ambassador to the Vatican. When the Pope comes in she can sing, "Hello, Popie."

[Ian David]

25. That's because it IS Carol Channing.

"This prick by my hand may be non-compos mental..."

[CorpGovActivist]

22. Did He Give Her His Da Vinci Code Decoder Ring...

... and ask her to go find the treasure to pay off the national debt?

; )

- Dave

[rucky]

23. Did Marcia Cross leave Desperate Housewives?

didn't anybody tell Dubya she's playing a fictional character?

[DemGa]

26. Republics in general got that crazy eye thing going

A tell-tale sign of a crazy-ass Republic. Truly bizarre looking.

[Ian David]

28. No, most of them have that brain-dead drone look. Or the Hastert / Sensennbrenner / Vogon look.