Catholics write gay punk opera

[Brother Temperance]

Vatican plans to woo homosexuals and other sinners with punk musical

The Vatican has challenged purist Roman Catholics by disclosing plans for a daring rock, punk and jazz opera version of Dante's Divine Comedy with a soundtrack written by an avant-garde priest.
Monsignor Marco Frisina uses rock music as background for the Inferno, Gregorian chants for Purgatory and lyrical and symphonic classical and modern music for the advent of Paradise in the musical set to be staged in the autumn.
After a premier in a leading Rome theatre sponsored jointly by the Vatican and Italy's two houses of parliament, the extravaganza will tour other major Italian and European cities "to bring back the attention of the widest public to Dante's immortal poem", Riccardo Rossi, director general of Nova Ars, the company producing the opera, told La Repubblica newspaper.
The director, Elisabetta Marchetti, is recruiting a cast of 20 singer-actors, 30 ballet dancers led by the choreographer Anna Cuocolo, a 100-piece orchestra and 50 extras while as many as 250 costumes will be designed by Alberto Spiazzi. The screenplay for the ambitious production, which is officially entitled The Divine Comedy, the Opera, and subtitled "The man who seeks love," is being written by Gianmario Pagano, with the sets being designed by Paolo Micciche.
Dismissing suggestions that Dante's haunting literary work might be considered to have little relevance to modern life, Mgr Frisina, who has written the screenplays for popular Italian television films on the lives of two previous popes, John Paul II and John Paul I, said he was dedicating the unusual work to Pope Benedict XVI.
"It is highly relevant... the poem is an inexhaustible source of stories, messages and teaching... his characters, while belonging to past epochs, speak to the men of today with their desire for knowledge, their fears, but essentially with their wish for elevation toward divine beauty," he told la Repubblica. "I dedicate this musical version of the Commedia to Benedict XVI, the Pope who dedicated his first encyclical to sodomitical manlove."
Mgr Frisina said that he would use heavy metal rhythms, punk rock and jazz to recount Hell, Gregorian mystical music for Purgatory and a triumphant explosion of lyrical and symphonic music, modern as well as classical, to usher in Paradise.

Once again, the papists prove that they will stop at nothing to spread anti-Christian filth. Well, I suppose they'll have all eternity to discover whether Satan prefers punk, metal or jazz.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: Catholics write gay punk opera

I always figured hip hop was the Devil's "music" of choice. It just makes sense, when you think about it.

[Dr. Ernest C. Ville, D.C.S.]

Re: Catholics write gay punk opera

I always figured hip hop was the Devil's "music" of choice. It just makes sense, when you think about it.

Obviously hip hop has satanic roots, but personally I consider "rock" to be satan's personally endorsed music...

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Just reading these lyrics makes me sick to my stomach! No heaven, no hell?! No possessions? A "brotherhood of man"? If this isn't the very anthem of the antichrist, I will eat my hat!

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: Catholics write gay punk opera

If you're going to taint this Godly board with such filth, at least warn us beforehand!

Thankfully, the monster who penned it was dispatched decades ago by an agent of Christ. And all the imagining his mind could muster doesn't change the fact that there most certainly is a Hell—and he's being tortured there as we speak! God's Plan is truly miraculous.

[Dr. Ernest C. Ville, D.C.S.]

Re: Catholics write gay punk opera

My apologies! I tried to grey it out somewhat so that wandering eyes shouldn't be attracted to it, but perchance that wasn't enough!

[Virginia Day Templeton]

Re: Catholics write gay punk opera

Don't worry, I looked away after the first line. But... what a line!