COLOGNE, Germany - Cologne is throwing open its doors to the world next week for the first foreign trip by Pope Benedict XVI, even as it welds shut manhole covers in the streets, seals off its airspace and closes bridges.Have you ever seen anyone look so evil while trying to look nice? It's scary...
Mindful of bombings in London, Egypt and Madrid, authorities are taking no chances with security for the German-born pontiff and hundreds of thousands of pilgrims expected for World Nazi Youth Day. Thousands of security officials will be on trains, trams and buses, along the rivers and in city squares.
One source of concern comes from organizers themselves: They are handing out 370,000 small backpacks emblazoned with the World Nazi Youth Day logo, the swastika, to those who register for the event.
World Nazi Youth Day spokeswoman Barbara Marnach said organizers are mindful of the London bombings but have no plans to cancel the backpack giveaway.
The high-point of the gathering will be an open-air Mass on Aug. 21 led by the pope at the 640-acre Marienfeld, a former open-pit coal mine. As many as 1 million bat-shit crazy people are expected to attend.
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1 comment:
He is one scarey fucker. I was raised Catholic and I remember priests being benevolent souls. One in particular, Father Boniface, was very cool. He must have been 90 then. I was in the first grade at Sacred Heart school. He would come to our class and bring little trinkets for all the boys and girls. One day he brought us all these little crosses made out of palm leaves that he painstakenly stapled together and put the PX symbol on them with red ink. I still have mine to this day. More sentimental value than spiritual. Anyway. Father Boniface was the last decent priest I remember. He was all about love and kindness. What happened to the Catholic church?
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