Christmas- now the time for open season on all that is good and holy

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This is a parody of the great Christmas hymn, Ihr Kinderlein kommet.

I suppose we should not be surprised when the Christmas shopping season opens on the day they call Black Friday.

Pussy Riot now on rampage in Cologne Cathedral- report and video

Anzeige gegen Aktivisten: Pussy-Riot-Nachahmer stürmen den Kölner Dom - Aus aller Welt - FOCUS Online - Nachrichten

The prayer of Punk Pussy Riot in Moscow went around the world. In Cologne Cathedral on Sunday, there was a similar scene to be seen. A colorfully costumed trio stormed the church - Bishop Heiner Koch was very relaxed.

The service in the cathedral on Sunday was in full swing when suddenly three young people stormed to the altar armed with banners . "Having a 20-year-old woman and two men aged 23 and 25 years of wild chanting slogans and held up a banner reading," said a police spokesman. On the banner in pink letters, the slogan, "Free Pussy Riot and all Prisoners" (Freedom for all prisoners and Pussy Riot) was to be read.

The colorfully costumed trio was seized by security in the Cathedral Church. According to police, they offered absolutely no resistance. Outside, they continued with their protest . By his own admission, the three activists wanted to show solidarity with the punk musicians in the band Pussy Riot who have been sentenced to a prison camp.

Bishop will pray for Pussy Riot

Bishop Heiner Koch is said, according to a report from "ZDF", during the protest to have remained quiet at the altar. After the incident, he said, the concerns of these people and the people of Russia should be made the subject of prayers.

The Russian punk band staged in February at the Moscow Church of the Redeemer a punk prayer in which they had asked the Virgin Mary to free Russia from President Vladimir Putin. Three of the women involved have now been sentenced to two years in a penal camp by a Russian court for "hooliganism" .

Provost Norbert Feldhoff already announced at the beginning of the trial in Russia that such a performance would not be well tolerated in the Cologne Cathedral: "The dignity of the Cathedral forces us to take action. Lawsuits for trespassing and disturbance of religious worship have now been taken out against the Cologne activists.

There also took a chain saw to a Cross in Kiev. Caution- half-naked woman.

See also Topless Russian feminist throws herself at Russian Patriarch

Right wing political party denies responsibility for blasphemous poster

Voorstelling Lam Gods misbruikt op valse poster Vlaams Belang - Kerknieuws - Kerk & Religie

Since Wednesday posters from the political party Vlaams Belang (Flemish movement) in Belgium have emerged bearing the image of "the Lamb of God." The scene, painted by the brothers Van Eyck in the fifteenth century, hangs in the St. Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. According to the church, copyright has been infringed.

The poster is a paste and cut made ​​from the large polyptych by Jan and Hubert van Eyck. The white lamb has been made black. At the top and bottom of poster, an old Vlaams Belang slogan can be read, "Keep away from our country! Asylum Swindlers, criminal aliens, illegal immigrants, radical Islam, immigration profiteers ".

The posters were discovered Wednesday morning in places like Antwerp, Ghent and Ekeren according to ​​the local media Der Staandard and Knack.

The poster does not come from the Vlaams Belang. It is not yet known who the publisher of the false PR material. Leader Filip Dewinter of the Flemish party claims to have no idea who the creator of the posters can be. He assumes that the initiator wants to take lead the party on. According to him, people like "asylum cheats" illustrated by the poster as black sheep are unfairly maligned. Vlaams Belang is making a legal complaint because the party is otherwise likely to be fined for nuisance.

The Saint Bavo Cathedral has indignantly responded to the abuse of the picture by Van Eyck. A spokesman speaks of an insult to the Catholic community. To display the image, the user must also have asked for consent from the digital image bank for Flemish heritage, Luke.   That has not happened.

The original- first the detail and then the whole

Naked Last Supper in Germany has clergy support

Würzburg: Nackt-Abendmahl in Kirchen-Museum nervt Besucher - Nachrichten Regionales - München - WELT ONLINE

With a new work by the Munich artist Henning von Gierke at the Würzburg Cathedral Museum, a talking point is generated. "The picture will perhaps trigger reservations if you focus on the term Last Supper and expect a depiction, said Juergen Lenssen, Arts Officer for the Diocese of Würzburg.

In the tryptic of the 1947-born artist, people are sitting, standing and lying around a table. They act like a normal family, some of them are naked, some sit on the sidelines, some look sickly. The scene is reminiscent of the famous "Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci. But the space in the center is free. At this point an image is projected of the visitor who is standing in front of the painting . He or she is thus part of a modern supper. (Cathcon- and takes the place of Christ in the scheme of things)

Clergy support the artist

"Communion for me is wherever the celebration of life happens," said Lenssen who is a priest. The picture does not show the Lord's Supper, but rather life at its different poles. Young and old, healthy and sick, beautiful and ugly, disappointment and joy. As a" declaration of love for life, " the artist Gierke describes his work.

Around the picture are twelve small paintings, showing details. Before one of them hangs a frame with a fig leaf in it. It hides the pubic area of a nude woman. "We were just wondering if we should remove the whole image, but decided against it. Instead, the artist has created later this fig leaf." The installation is called "The Last Supper and twelve companions."

Criticism by e-mail

Nevertheless Lenssen has already reaped criticism. He had already received a negative reaction in vulgar language by email, says the art historian. "Behind this stands, as far as I am concerned, a pathological relationship with sex or nudity. We speak of the paradisiacal nudity, which is completely pure."

Run by the Catholic Church, the museum houses the largest church in Europe collections of contemporary art. According to Lenssen about 50,000 people visit the Cathedral Museum annually.

See also Erotic Church Service

Two German political parties attempt to disrupt Good Friday

Kultur und Medien - online: Anti-Stille-Feiertage-Proteste zu Karfreitag: Piraten-Tanz-Demo in Frankfurt verboten, Grüne Jugend protestiert in Wiesbaden

Anti-Day of Rest Protests for Good Friday. Pirate Party Dance Party banned in Frankfurt. Green Party Youth protest in Wiesbaden

The Frankfurt authorities responsible for public order have banned the demonstration of the Pirate Party, which was to take place on Good Friday. During the protest loud music was to be played to "invite people to dance," says the Pirate Party. The spokesman for the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau called the project of the Pirate Party "disrespectful." The Young Greens, who organized in 2011 in the Frankfurt Römerplatz a demonstration and thus disrupted the Good Friday procession of the Croatian community, hace shifted their annual protest to Wiesbaden. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 4 April 2012, supported the measure of the Frankfurt authorities and commented: To disrupt the special nature of Good Friday and "by noisy events in public to make them unrecognizable, would simply be wrong."

Cathcon- of all the political parties, the Greens are always clashing with the church- probably because of large number of lapsed Catholics in their membership. The Pirate Party who are gaining rapid influence in Germany will never get my vote.

Video showing that the Green Party Youth have no shame and no respect, neither for the church nor for democracy.   See especially around 0.26 the faithful blocked in by the demo, and at 1.46 when the procession starts.

Marriage of two homosexual priests

The shocking advertising campaign of a former tennis star.

Cathcon translation of Modelabel schockt mit Hochzeit schwuler Priester- Fashion label shocks with the marriage of homosexual priests.

Cathcon- caution- this links to a report including the video.

Fashion label shocks with the marriage of two gay priests
Björn Borg presents a highly controversial taboo video for his new Internet dating site. See it here

Björn Borg: Many still remember the resonant name of the smart Swedish tennis player, up until today considered one of the best players in tennis history. Björn Borg’s name for several years has been the godfather of the successful eponymous clothing and perfume brand.

In search of love
Borg, known as a marketing strategist, now wishes to pull off a new coup. Besides clothes and accessories, the label now also offers a free speed dating service on the Internet. Help in the search for true love, Björn Borg Love – and as the press release says, promises that everyone can find love. The web page can be found under the slogan "Love For All" (www.bjornborg.com/love).


Wedding of two priests
The message is implicit in the accompanying video campaign: Two male priest married by a priest in a church . A highly controversial video was created under the direction of Oscar Bard which has shocked religious and conservative circles alike. But the brand seems not to be disturbed - on the contrary. " This video is about love in its purest form. We at Björn Borg are proud and happy to have created a platform which permits all interpretations and expressions of love, "said Rocky af Ekenstam Brennicke, PR manager of the brand.

Cathcon note: the "priests" were deliberately not dressed as protestant clergy but as Catholics, although the female officient could be taken as a member of any number of Protestant denominations. The church shown was deliberately chosen, so that it could be either Protestant or Catholic.

Blasphemous film Jesus of Montreal

greets visitors to the Cardinal Danneels' evangelisation extravaganza.

More pictures from Cathcon in the churches of Brussels this afternoon coming soon!