From the Department of Accurate First Impressions
I don’t know if I wrote about it when he became pontiff (and our relevant archives have, sadly, not yet been restored), but the first moment I saw pictures of Pope Ratz I thought to myself, “He looks like the perfect stereotype of a movie villain who’s getting away with some evil scheme.”
Now I know why. Though my gut hunch can’t top that of Michael Signorile:
Suddenly, I jumped up on one of the marble platforms and, looking down, I addressed the entire congregation in the loudest voice I could. My voice rang out as if it were amplified. I pointed at Ratzinger and shouted:
“He is no man of God!”
The shocked faces of the assembled Catholics turned to the back of the room to look at me as I continued:
“He is no man of God — he is the Devil!”
I had no idea where that came from.
Also, from the adjacent Department of Looking Good in Retrospect: Sinead O’Connor.
Tags: Catholic church, child abuse, Pope Ratz
March 26th, 2010 at 6:17 am
Benny the Ratz always looks like a cross between Uncle Fester and Boris Karloff.
(With apologies to Mr. Karloff, who was known in Hollywood as a gentleman who, aptly, gave generously to children’s charities. And, he was married six times.)
March 26th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
And, O’Connor’s op-ed is a must-read.
March 26th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Or as I said more simply when I heard he was selected: “Surely among 800M Catholics the Cardinals could have picked one that *wasn’t* a Hitler Youth.