My buddy Kaiser and I have spent the past few days studying the Tradition in Action website. It’s a site that’s concerned with the “desacralization” of the Catholic church. It suffers hilariously from a neurotic disposition towards semi-nude “native” women the pope met on world tours, funny hats, punk priests, acrobats, and clowns. The last one is my favorite. I love how the author describes the reception of the clowns:
“Receiving circus clowns and acrobatic performers at the Vatican, Ratzinger and Wojtyla certainly gratify these enemies, and offend Our Lord Jesus Christ, whose seriousness they should represent.”
If clowns are your enemies, who are your friends?
Other pictures come with priceless commentary such as:
“A young woman gives an acrobatic performance for the Pope, who watches with other ecclesiastics. Her posture is clearly indecent, and one wonders when JPII applies to himself the precept of custody of the eyes.”
The site also takes time to be anti-semitic, bemoaning JPII’s accepting a menorah from a rabbi as “a practical denial of two thousand years of Catholic teaching about the perfidy of the Jewish religion.” Serious, JP. Why’d you have to ruin it for us?