Not a parody
A poster promoting a 2006 parish carnival at Hollywood’s Blessed
Sacrament Church has provoked a series of escalating problems – to the point
that some parishioners have asked the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to reign in
their pastor.
Parishioner Larry Bugbee, spokesman for the “Committee of Hundreds of Parishioners
and Friends” of Blessed Sacrament parish, says that their pastor, Fr. Michael
Mandala, S.J., has promoted indecent entertainment at the last two parish carnivals,
which included scantily-clad dancers making sexually suggestive movements in
front of an audience of all ages.
The committee’s foremost complaint is over a poster promoting the 2006 carnival,
which prominently displayed photographs of scantily clad women in suggestive
poses. When a similar poster was circulated for the 2007 carnival, Fr. Mandala
told one parishioner, “It’s not as bad as last year’s.”
...Copies of the 2006 poster have been hand-delivered to Cardinal Roger Mahony,
as well as his Vicar for Clergy, the Clergy Misconduct Oversight Board and the
director of Safeguard the Children for the Archdiocese. In March 2007, a detailed
letter was delivered to the same people, as well as to the Jesuit provincial.
One of the signers of the letter was a former prioress of the Monastery of the
Angels, a cloistered Dominican nun who lives near the parish. Neither Cardinal
Mahony nor anyone else from the Archdiocese has responded to the letter, Bugbee
said.
During the 2006 carnival, parishioner Russell Brown came out of church after
Mass to find several men whistling. He witnessed a female performer shaking her
breasts, then her buttocks onstage.
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Given the root of the word 'carnival' (carne - 'flesh' or 'meat'), perhaps the pastor is just trying to stay true to etymology?
Sex definitely sells, but often the cost is your soul.
Let's see...time to insert joke "here"...
sell-ibate?
spirituality con carne-val?
How many vocations to the sisterhood have they produced? Nun!
Church of the Blessed Sacrilege?
Fr. Mandala's flesh-fest-o-rama?
No response from Mahony? I'm shocked! Shocked!
Copies of the 2006 poster have been hand-delivered to Cardinal Roger Mahony
I hope His Eminence was appropriately grateful.
-Copies of the 2006 poster have been hand-delivered to Cardinal Roger Mahony-
Must. Not. Say. Joke. Disrespectful. Irreverent.
Maybe the reason that no one has responded is simple, Cardinal Mahony is simply planning a Spanish Inquisition, no one will expect a Spanish Inquisition.
Really, if I were that pastor , I would look out, the prioress of the local domincans broke the cloister to remedy the situation as she doesn't like it??? oh wow, look out, u r in trouble.
Under the Mercy,
Matthew S
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This is about 100 degrees above the unacceptable limit. No reason whatsoever that this should be happening. Ever.
If the pastor suffers any consequences, will it be because the event discriminates unfairly by not including gay entertainment?
Sad to see the name "Blessed Sacrament" debased this way.
I thought I was looking at another poster of the Folsom Street fair in San Francisco--no kidding.
"Given the root of the word 'carnival' (carne - 'flesh' or 'meat'), perhaps the pastor is just trying to stay true to etymology?"
The root of carnival is not just meat, but a "farewell to meat," as in Lent. Carnival is most related to Mardi Gras.
Actually, that DOES make the point, doesn't it?
Unfreakingbelieveable--I thought the poster was a joke at first.