#The Vatican

[mysharona1987]

Well, someone just cost himself a role in Scream 7.

[blade-liger-4ever]

Catholic Tumblr wake up, we got justice in this game!!!!!

[isabelle-primrose]

Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI by Frank Cadogan Cowper circa 1910

[twixnmix]

Andy Warhol meeting Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City on April 2, 1980.

Photos by Lionello Fabbri

[kisswithfangs]

bacchus at the vatican

6.20.24

[flantxo-no1]

THIS IS THE MASCOT FOR THE 2025 HOLY YEAR HER NAME IS LUCE (Light in Italian) I LOVE HERRRR

[theinimitablefuckstormkilligan]

found him in the vatican he's important

[madamemachikonew]

When one of the most evil hoarders of wealth in the world launches a marketable plush.

And Pantalone.

Reference:

And also Priestlone by @straw-bunbun

[springtime-creations]

Ain't no way we got an official anime mascot for the Vatican before GTA 6-

[blueiscoool]

Restored 'Apollo Belvedere' Marble Statue Back in the Vatican

The Vatican Museums on Tuesday unveiled the restoration of the celebrated second-century "Apollo Belvedere" sculpture following five years of work.

Once considered to epitomise classical Western ideals of beauty, the 2.24-metre-high (seven-feet-tall) marble statue shows the Greek god of medicine and poetry in motion, his left arm having just let fly an arrow from his bow.

Its around 260,000-euro ($280,000) restoration aimed to fix serious structural defects detected late in 2019, the restorers said.

Those notably included fragilities in the legs and an overall lack of balance in the structure, they told a press conference.

Thanks to the introduction of a carbon-fibre rod fixed to the back of the base, the "Apollo Belvedere" was successfully stabilised and presented to public applause at the Vatican's Pio-Clementine Museum.

The most difficult thing was "not to touch anything on the sculpture" and avoid having to move and dismantle it, the restoration workshop's head Guy Devreux told AFP.

"We found this new system, which is a dynamic structural system based on the use of carbon fibre… and which, used in the right way, can give extraordinary results," he added.

For the Vatican Museums' director Barbara Jatta, "the main challenge was to have the courage to close access to such an important icon for our museums".

Discovered in 1489 among the ruins of an ancient Roman house, the "Apollo Belvedere" was brought to the Vatican by Pope Julius II.

Besides the carbon-fibre rod, the restorers also replaced the statue's left hand with a cast taken from a fragment of a plaster copy of the original Greek statue made in Roman times.

The "Apollo Belvedere" is in fact considered to be a marble copy of a bronze from around 330 BC attributed to Leochares, one of the foremost sculptors of his time.

[reality-detective]

Mel Gibson on the Pope 🤔

[mysharona1987]

Joe Biden, the Catholic Church, Christian organisations and US Congress when they clearly give the IDF co-ordinates to avoid Christians and nuns and the IDF use the info to bomb and snipe them anyway:

Gee, guys. Guess they weren’t only after Muslims.

That’s what a genocide actually is. Everyone is collateral damage. Doesn’t matter what God you believe in.

[wandering-italy]

St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican

Rome, Dec. 2016

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Stephanie Kirchgaessner at The Guardian:

When the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sought to shut down a Catholic charity that was was providing shelter and aid to undocumented migrants at the border, the San Diego cardinal, Robert McElroy, took a robust public stand against the attempt. “The state of Texas is using governmental pressure to curtail the work of the Church in one of its most fundamental obligations: to feed the hungry, to shelter the homeless, and to provide drink to the thirsty,” McElroy said in a statement at the time. “No government can morally tell us to abandon or limit this mission.” Last week, as billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg adopted policies that seemed designed to ingratiate themselves with the incoming Trump administration, Pope Francis took a different tack when he tapped the Harvard and Stanford-educated McElroy to the role of archbishop of Washington DC – one of the most high-profile positions in the US Catholic church. It followed Donald Trump’s own announcement that he was appointing Brian Burch, a rightwing political activist and critic of Francis who heads CatholicVote, a conservative advocacy group, to the role of US ambassador to the Vatican. In his statement, Trump claimed that Burch had helped deliver him more Catholic votes than any other presidential candidate. Both allies and critics of Francis say the appointments set the stage for conflict between the Vatican and Trump’s Washington, at a time when rightwing and far-right Catholics – from Leonard Leo to Steve Bannon – wield significant influence in the US capital. It was noted, too, that Francis chose 6 January, the anniversary of the Trump-inspired insurrection on the Capitol, to make the announcement.

“McElroy is incredibly polished intellectually. He is a thinker. He is a quiet man and he can say the strongest things against a certain kind of immigration policy with a soft voice. He’s courageous,” said Massimo Faggioli, professor of theology and religious studies, who noted that McElvoy was one of closest officials to Francis in North America. “He is Francis’s voice in many ways, and being in Washington DC elevates his voice. It is the place where power is brokered, and not just at the White House. In the Congress and the supreme court,” Faggioli added. Those corridors of power have increasingly been influenced by rightwing Catholics who are opposed to Francis’s agenda. The most prominent politicians who support him are losing influence and power, from the outgoing president Joe Biden to the former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Both are devout Catholics.

Steve Bannon, the Christian nationalist Trump adviser, who is also Catholic, said Francis’s choice of McElroy showed he was on a “collision course” with the incoming White House over one of Trump’s main agenda items. “The whole process of deportations will begin when President Trump takes his hand off the King James Bible,” Bannon told the Guardian. “Immediately you are going to have the Vatican, through their cardinal, trying to confront this. Bannon, who lives in Washington DC, said he believed the Catholic church and affiliated charities could face criminal investigations by the DoJ for their role in facilitating what Bannon and other rightwing leaders of the Maga movement have called an “invasion” of undocumented immigrants into the US. “I believe this will lead to the actual technical bankrupty of the church,” he said. McElroy, he added, “is a player, not some shrinking violet”.

Bannon is not the only Maga hardliner to show contempt for church practices. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has previously said that Satan was “controlling the church” and has repeated rightwing claims that Catholic charities are being enriched by US government contracts to help migrants.

[...] Just as some supporters of Francis believed McElroy was a pick that seemed too good to be true, Bannon praised the appointment of Brian Burch to represent the US in the Holy See. The job has traditionally gone to major donors but not political operatives. Even the choice of Calista Gingrich, the wife of former House speaker Newt Gingrich, was not seen as too controversial. Bannon said he believed the choice of Burch was connected to Leonard Leo, the rightwing Catholic activist who has almost singlehandedly turned the supreme court into a rightwing power base. A non-profit linked to Leo has donated more than $1m to Burch’s CatholicVote group.

Cardinal Robert McElroy was recently selected to lead the Washington DC Archdiocese to replace the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory due to the 75 year-old age limit. With Cardinal McElroy helming the archdiocese, conflicts over Donald Trump’s fascistic mass deportation policy and other harmful anti-immigrant policies will abound.

[asgoodeasgold]

A goode dose of side glances and priestly hotness 🫠

It does not happen often but here are four rarely seen promo photographs of Matthew as Bernd Koch, the "spectacularly handsome and well-built papal secretary" in The Vatican (to quote the script). They were kindly shared by 2muchimmersion on Twitter (thank you so much 🙏🩷). I have edited them, in particular changing the original beige background to a steely blue. To me, this accentuates the mystery of Matthew's character.

I cannot get over how beautiful these pictures are. And I am feeling again utterly bereft that we can't see this pilot 😭.

📷 Promo images for The Vatican TV pilot (2013) from Scott Free. Originals shared by 2muchimmersion on Twitter. My edits.

[tinkerbitch69]

link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/baldurs-gate/astarion-has-breached-the-vatican-baldurs-gate-3-has-sold-2-copies-in-vatican-city-says-larians-director-of-publishing/

WTF IS THIS ARTICLE???!!!