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Gloria.TV News on the 21st of October. Off message: The Catholic political satirist Stephen Colbert criticized Pope Francis in a keynote speech at this year’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner …More
Gloria.TV News on the 21st of October.

Off message: The Catholic political satirist Stephen Colbert criticized Pope Francis in a keynote speech at this year’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner for Catholic charities – quote: “By the way, is the pope here?” – he said: “Pope Francis, are you here? Because if you were we probably wouldn’t know because His Humbleness would be out washing the feet of the coat check guy. We get it, you’re modest.” Or: “If Pope Francis were throwing tonight’s party we wouldn’t be in white tie at the Waldorf. We’d be in sweat pants crammed into a corner booth at the IHOP.” Colbert also criticized Francis’ playing up to the liberals: “The Pope is off message! Saying: Catholics, please stop obsessing about homosexuals, abortion and contraception. For Pete’s sake, we need something to be obsessed about now that Breaking Bad is over.”

Lachrymose: The Rapid City Journal is in tears. It published a lachrymose article with the title: “Former Catholic priest embraces the openness of Episcopalians”. It is about Chris Roussell who was a priest for 3 years in New Orleans but then ran off in order to search for a woman. He found one who – quote – “was no longer married”. An Episcopal parson held a bogus wedding for the two of them. Now, Roussell is ready to serve as an Episcopal minister in South Dakota. To clarify matters, Roussell wants everybody to know – quote - that I’m not an Episcopal priest just so I can be a married priest. It’s so much deeper than that.”

Carbonized: More than half of Minnesotans who died in 2011 were cremated. The Cremation Association of North America forecasts that by 2015 about 44 percent of Americans will choose to be burned. The process occurs in an industrial furnace to generate temperatures of about 1,600-1,800 degrees Fahrenheit to reduce the body to fragments over the course of several hours. Up until a few years ago, the Church used to teach that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and therefore the body is to be treated with the utmost respect and so the entire body should be given burial rather than to allow cremation to take place. Most of the references to the burning of a body in the Bible relate to punishment for criminal acts or improper behavior, killings by pagans, or destruction of idols. Judaism and Islam forbid cremation.

Cash: Germany’s Catholic Church may have little faith, but a lot of money. It is Germany's second-biggest employer after the state, running schools, kindergartens or the TV company which produces the Tatort crime drama. It owns breweries, sells mineral water Adelholzener, owns ten banks, insurance businesses and 30 housing associations. In 2013 it collected €5.2 billion in church tax and about 250 million Euros in state subsidy. Cologne Cardinal Joachim Meisner makes 15’000 Dollars a month. Poverty-Pope Francis has and will not criticize this wealth because German money also flows into the Vatican.