Well, as long as B-16 is going to bless a breakdancing crew like JP-2 did, right?

He said that in 1986. Maybe he was refering to Cyndi Lauper? Not that she's neither rock nor anti-religion. Maybe he was confused.

oh wow look! a pope who's catholic. surprise, surprise.

chris, are you implying all Catholics are anti-rock?

oh my... i guess he was refering to The Beatles and The Eagles, saying it's full of "diabolical and satanic messages."

the Catholic Church is like OMFG... have nothing against christians though

WHY NOT JUDGE FOR YOURSELF WHAT
THE POPE WANTS TO DO!

Just to get it clear this time, for Der Papst has many hatreds to tell us about. They stretch over so many centuries that we -- the faithful followers -- cannot keep track of them, even with the aid of armies of priests, nuns, bishops, Opus Dei and the like -- not to mention the billions and billions of taxpayers' monies in every country.

The neurotic legions of the Pope's liege lackies -- the hidden thousands of Opus Dei warriors, spread out in every Civil Service, Police Force, Parliament, Law Library and Judges' Bench in the Western world -- were out in force telling us that John Paul 11 was a rock star, he even played the guitar and told them in Austria (believe it or not) to make babies. What do Catholic schools need most? Catholic Austrian babies! (As it happens, the black non-catholic babies in Ireland can't even get into a school -- the church owns them all, while the 'Republic' looks on. ! And the Roma are not Catholic enough to stay in Catholic Ireland either!)

Now, a few years later, we get another Pope, but I don't think the message is really different. It's just that the liege lackies are given web-sites all over the world, so that they can blog themselves to a drug-like sleep every year without a hint of what they said they year before. Some say the Vatican is buying into Google to save the souls of bloggers. The idea of history and integrity (secular integrity,that is) are unheard of in the religious bubble.

But judge for yourself, what the Pope is up to. What exactly is the Pope saying about Rock?

The Vatican, apparently, is concerned that young people are being exposed to Satanism through the media, of rock music and the Internet.

Under medieval Canon Law (1172) all priests -- the ones with the holy fingers -- can perform exorcisms. But in reality only a select few are ever called on to do so.

Personally, I attribute all this nonsense to the denial of woman -- and all these pedophelia cases are a reflection on the proprietorial notions of what must be a perverted church.
Without going into the history of either music or the Vatican's peculiar notions of music , let us put the argument in a simple context. Needless to say the infinitely lugubrious tones of Gregorian Chant, the Vatican finds OK. Even Mozart is OK, because Benedict XV1 dabbles on the old harpsichord. But when poor Mozart was alive,he could not get away from Bishops, especially Bishop Colarado, his master.

In more modern time, of course, when you wanted a Pope with a little pluck to ban music, you could not find one. For example, the Papacy never condemned this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhS4px-xuqU#5IAG_j6JXes

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxL0w90dZdI&feature=related

The present Pope remembers both of these above tunes, because he served the Wehrmacht with these dulcet tones in his ears. Now, he has decided to condemn rock, as in Rock 'n Roll. He has no wife and he has no children, that is, no one in the Vatican whose lives, customs and habits he could refer to over the last sixty years. Nevertheless, he feels he can take it upon himslef to condemns rockers, like this ,for example, (and sung by a fine-thing unrepentent chanting Buddhist as well!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwsGanJ-oUQ&feature=related

One must wonder if the Infallible One is on a bum steer, or has that old celibate grind caught up with him at last, or is it just his conversation with Habermas .

As a war baby and not far from the Pope's age, I can say ,thankfully, that without the need for drugs, religious or chemical, I am personally quite happy if the Pope could be prevented from stirring up or preaching any more crusades in Europe or elsewhere, and that includes preaching agasint youth or trying to divide and destroy them in order to bring them under his will.

At least then , even if one enters the mad-cap company of FitzGeraldo, one can go back to sleep on YouTube by listening to ordinary things like these two old warblers and 'gamle flibbers' :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O85Kxovra_Q&feature=related

Seamus Breathnach

www.irish-criminology.com