Italy's exports include expensive clothes by sodomite designers, hideously unreliable cars, and now the cult of the idol of "Saint" John Bosco.
Sick-ular "news" source:
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Catholic Saint's Relic Visits Washington; Weighs Over 1800 Pounds
WASHINGTON DC (WUSA) --- During his life, St. John Bosco pushed to change the idea that young people did not matter. He founded the Salesians of Don Bosco, the international organization of priests and men devoted to helping youth.
Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, St. Bosco's wax figure and urn traveled safely to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The public will be able to view the relic Tuesday starting at 8:30 a.m. A special Mass will be held at 6:30 p.m.
St. Bosco (aka Don Bosco) was born near Turin, Italy in 1815. He made it his business to look out for young people suffering during the cholera-rampant age of the Industrial Revolution.
Father Steve Shafran coordinated the arrival of the relic's stop in Washington. The relic has been on a world-wide tour since April, 2009 for St. Bosco's upcoming 200th birthday in 2015.
"Young people were treated like trash and abused and also really repressed. And so he wanted to come up with a system where young people can be respected," says Shafran, president of the Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, Md. The school was founded to provide high school education for youth facing financial hardship.
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A system where young people can be respected, in the Roman institution? Uh huh, sure, I believe that.
Also, show me where in the Bible it says that we should venerate wax figures of saints. Take your time; I'll wait.
Anyway, let's see what
Wickedpedophile.org says about Don Bosco:
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But many remembered Bosco’s controversies in the 1870s with Archbishop Gastaldi and some others high in the Church hierarchy thought him a loose cannon and a wheeler-dealer. In the canonization process, testimony was heard about how he went around Gastaldi to get some of his men ordained and about their lack of academic preparation and ecclesiastical decorum. Political cartoons from the 1860s and later showed him shaking money from the pockets of old ladies or going off to America for the same purpose. These cartoons were not forgotten. Opponents of Bosco, including some cardinals, were in a position to block his canonization and many Salesians feared around 1925 that they would succeed.
However, Pope Pius XI had known Bosco and pushed the cause forward.
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In other words, with a little arm-twisting by someone in power, anyone can be made a minor deity in the Roman pantheon. And look at this:
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Bosco's work was carried on by his early pupil and constant companion, Michael Rua, who was appointed Rector Major of the Salesian Society by Pope Leo XIII in 1888.
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A Catholic priest had a male constant companion? Say no more.