Grey London hatched this Dole Sunshine Company campaign that includes a letter to Pope Francis. The pontiff should impose harsh penance upon the responsible creative team.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
12686: Drilling For A Concept.
If you drilled into the heads of the creative team responsible for these ads, you’d discover empty skulls.
Thursday, May 07, 2015
Sunday, January 18, 2015
12415: Serra—Saint Or Sinner?
Pope Francis’ wish to canonize California missionary met with contempt from tribes
Pope Francis announced his desire to canonize Spanish friar Junipero Serra Thursday, which angered leaders of the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe because of Serra’s history of abuse toward Native Americans during the missionary era of California.
By Nicole Hensley
Tribal leaders have condemned Pope Francis’ wish to canonize a 18th-century Spanish friar believed responsible for the destruction of indigenous people through his missionaries.
Hailed by historians as one of California’s founding fathers, Junipero Serra baptized thousands of Native Americans, promoting Catholicism throughout the coastal region.
But his work was anything but holy, argues Chief Anthony Morales of the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe.
“There’s nothing saintly about the atrocities on our culture and our people,” Morales told KNBC-TV.
His string of nine missions in what is now known as California attracted whole villages seeking a steady food source. It was also associated with Spanish soldiers suspected of torturing and raping Indians.
“Our people were enslaved. They were beaten,” Morales Sainthood has been a long time coming after Pope John Paul II beatified Serra in 1988 for being a “shining example of Christian virtue and the missionary spirit.”
Pope Francis made his desire to canonize Serra known aboard a flight from Sri Lanka to the Philippines Thursday while explaining why he canonized St. Joseph Vaz, a Sri Lankan missionary, according to Catholic News Service.
“Now in September, God willing, I will canonize Junipero Serra in the United States. He was the evangelizer of the West in the United States,” Pope Francis said.
The decision took local Catholic leaders by surprise, and also fueled rumors of a visit extending beyond the East Coast in September.
The Vatican has yet to confirm any trips besides Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.
“I’m learning with Pope Francis, we should always be ready for a surprise,” Father Edward Benioff of the Los Angeles Archdiocese told KNBC-TV.
Despite historical concerns of abuse at Serra’s missionaries, Benioff supports Francis’ intentions.
“By canonizing a great missionary, he’s showing the whole church we’re all called to be missionaries,” Benioff said.
Serra’s beatification heralded protests at his Carmel gravesite and the Junipero Serra Museum in San Diego for rumors of harsh punishment, such as whipping while converting reluctant tribes, that have been passed down through generations.
The museum was defaced with slogans such as “Genocidal Maniac” and “Serra was a Baby Killer.”
Some historians have doubted the claims of abuse because of the lack of documentation, though it’s believed Serra wrote the following passage in 1780, according to a PBS biography:
“That spiritual fathers, the priests should be able to punish their sons, the Indians with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of (the Americas),” he wrote.
Serra died in 1784, but by the end of the missionary era in the 1830s, at least 60,000 of those Native Americans baptized had died of disease, according to the LA Times.
With News Wire Services
Thursday, January 15, 2015
12397: Pontificating On Offending.
‘You can’t insult the faith of others’: Pope on Charlie Hebdo
By Reuters
Pope Francis, speaking of last week’s deadly attacks by Islamist militants in Paris, has defended freedom of expression, but said it was wrong to provoke others by insulting their religion and that one could “expect” a reaction to such abuse.
“You can’t provoke, you can’t insult the faith of others, you can’t make fun of faith,” he told reporters Thursday aboard a plane taking him from Sri Lanka to the Philippines to start the second leg off his Asian tour.
Francis, who has condemned the Paris attacks, was asked about the relationship between freedom of religion and freedom of expression.
“I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights,” he said, adding that he was talking specifically about the Paris killings.
“Everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what he thinks for the common good … we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending,” he said.
To illustrate his point, he turned to an aide and said: “It is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends, if (he) says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal.
“You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others,” he added. “These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression there are limits.”
Seventeen people, including journalists and police, were killed in three days of violence that began with a shooting attack on the political weekly Charlie Hebdo, known for its satirical attacks on Islam and other religions.
Referring to past religious wars, such as the Crusades sanctioned by the Catholic Church against Islam, the Pope said:
“Let’s consider our own history. How many wars of religion have we had? Even we were sinners, but you can’t kill in the name of God. That is an aberration.”
The Pope was also asked if he felt vulnerable to an assassination attempt or an attack by Islamic extremists.
Earlier this week, the Vatican denied Italian newspaper reports that US and Israeli intelligence officials had informed the Vatican that there could be an imminent attack by Islamist militants.
Francis said he was more worried about others — rather than himself — being hurt in an eventual attack and that he was confident about security measures in the Vatican and during his trips.
“I am in God’s hands,” he said, joking about having asked God to spare him a painful death.
“Am I afraid? You know that I have a defect, a nice dose of being careless. If anything should happen to me, I have told the Lord, I ask you only to give me the grace that it doesn’t hurt because I am not courageous when confronted with pain. I am very timid,” he said.
Sunday, January 04, 2015
12364: Pope Promotes Diversity.
Pope names 15 new cardinals from 14 different nations to reflect church diversity
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis named 15 new cardinals Sunday, selecting them from 14 nations, including far-flung corners of the world such as Tonga, New Zealand, Cape Verde and Myanmar, to reflect the diversity of the church and its growth in places like Asia and Africa compared to affluent regions.
Other cardinals hail from Ethiopia, Thailand and Vietnam.
None came from the United States and only three European nations received new cardinals—Portugal and Spain in addition to Italy.
Francis told faithful in St. Peter’s Square that the new batch of cardinals “shows the indelible tie with the church of Rome to churches in the world.”
Five new cardinals come from Europe, three from Asia, three from Latin America, including Mexico, and two each come from Africa and Oceania.
With his picks, the Argentine-born Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, made ever clearer that he is laying out a new vision of the church’s identity, including of its hierarchy. He looked beyond traditional metropolitan area for the “princes of the church” who will help advise him and elect his successor.
He has said repeatedly that the church must reach out to those on the margins.
The Vatican’s chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the selection “confirms that the pope doesn’t feel tied to the traditional ‘cardinal sees,’ which reflected historic reasons in various countries.”
“Instead we have various nominations of archbishops or bishops of sees in the past that wouldn’t have had a cardinal,” Lombardi said.
The pontiff ignored another tradition: limiting to a total of 120 the number of cardinals under 80 and eligible to vote for his successor.
Before his announcement on Sunday, there were 12 “vacancies” in this category. By naming 15 new voting-age cardinals, Francis went above that number, although Lombardi noted, “he kept very close to it (120), so it was substantially respected.”
Pope John Paul II, who put his conservative stamp on the college of cardinals, also went beyond the 120-limit.
Among Pope Francis’ picks are churchmen whose advocacy styles seem to particularly capture matters dear to his heart.
Monsignor Francesco Montenegro, a Sicilian, was at his side when Francis made his first trip a few months into his papacy. Montenegro welcomed the pontiff to Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island whose people have helped thousands of migrants stranded by smugglers offshore. The pontiff has repeatedly denounced human trafficking and urged more attention to people on the margins of society. He also has thundered against Mafiosi, and Montenegro’s Agrigento diocese includes towns where people have dared to rebel against Cosa Nostra.
The only native English-language speaker chosen by Francis is Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington, New Zealand. Summing up his own intervention at last year’s Vatican conference on controversial family issues, including gay marriage and divorced Catholics, Dew has said the church must change its language to give “hope and encouragement.”
Francis also bestowed the honor on five churchmen older than 80, including men from the pope’s native Argentina, Mozambique and Colombia.
Speaking from a Vatican window to a crowd in St. Peter’s Square, Francis made another surprise announcement. He said that on Feb. 12-13, he will lead of meeting of all cardinals to “reflect on the orientations and proposals for the reform of the Roman Curia,” the Vatican’s administrative bureaucracy.
Francis is using his papacy, which began in March 2013, to root out corruption, inefficiency and other problems in the curia.
Francis said he will “have the joy” on Feb. 14 of presiding over the ceremony in which the 20 churchmen will receive the red hat cardinals wear.
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