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September 16th, 2005

When Buffoons Became Bishops

“Comedy has a long tradition of poking fun at those with power. The Church doesn’t like to think of itself as powerful, particularly when our founder, Jesus, was critical of the religious hierarchy and suffered the consequences. Yet despite protestations, the Church, for good and for ill, is a powerful body and like all powerful bodies is constantly in danger of taking itself too seriously.”

Article from St Matthew in the City, in Auckland New Zealand, ‘When Buffoons Became Bishops‘.

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  1. John Bennett says:

    B3TA.com has a weekly competition for the “puerile digital arts community”. This week the theme of the challenge is ‘How to make Church more popular’. There are some interesting posts; some are sacriligious and offensive but even they show a lot about the way the church is seen.
    Oh, I did post a link to the cartoon on this site with the caption “Some of the young people wanted church to be more exciting”

    September 17th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
  2. Dave K says:

    If you’re interested in reading a (very readable) book about the feast of fools then I’d recommend Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin.

    Dave.

    September 18th, 2005 at 6:07 pm