Is the pope really just a cheap magician?

Question

I found this on the internet, he looks just like that satanist ozzy osbourne in these pictures... what's up with all the incense, trinkets, and the big phallic obelisk out in the vatican courtyard... plus they have dead popes bronzed up inside there, I've been to the vatican lol it's the creepiest place I've ever been! The pope is a weirdo!

http://www.geocities.com/popeorozzy/popeorozzy.html

Answer 1

no, he is a nazi to.

Answer 2

Almost every religion uses incense at one time or other. Pictures are only as good as the person who takes and edits them! Trinkets? Phallic Obelisk? Bronzed popes? I know they display replicas to honor the past popes, and they collected a LOT of art over the years for the public to see (like museums do). Aside from that he is not a magician, he is a man who was elected to a position by the bishops. Get a life and quite putting meanings to things that have nothing to do with reality! By the way, I look bad too if I am caught before I have gotten ready to go out for the day....

Answer 3

how foolish. the dark circles are generally due to heritage (eastern european) and exhaustion.
grow up abd get a clue.
if you were creeped out but the vatican - i'm scared of you. it is an exquisite place with beautiful artwork representing the life of Christ.

Answer 4

No.

The Pope is the senior pastor of the world's one billion (plus) Catholics.

+ Incense +

Incense has been used to accompany and symbolize prayer in Judaism and Christianity for thousands of years.

In the Old Testament, God mandates the use of incense in Jewish worship:

"For burning incense you shall make an altar of acacia wood, ... "On it Aaron shall burn fragrant incense. Morning after morning, when he prepares the lamps, and again in the evening twilight, when he lights the lamps, he shall burn incense. Throughout your generations this shall be the established incense offering before the LORD. (Exodus 30:1-9)

Aaron makes an offering of incense:

"Thus shall Aaron offer up the bullock, his sin offering, to atone for himself and for his family. When he has slaughtered it, he shall take a censer full of glowing embers from the altar before the LORD, as well as a double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bringing them inside the veil, 3 there before the LORD he shall put incense on the fire, so that a cloud of incense may cover the propitiatory over the commandments; else he will die. (Leviticus 16:12-13)

See also Numbers 7:13-17.

And in the New Testament, the Magi bring frankincense, a type of incense, as an offering to Christ himself:

Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. (Matthew 2:11)

John the Baptist's father, Zechariah makes an offering of incense in the Temple sanctuary:

Once when he was serving as priest in his division's turn before God, according to the practice of the priestly service, he was chosen by lot to enter the sanctuary of the Lord to burn incense. Then, when the whole assembly of the people was praying outside at the hour of the incense offering, the angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right of the altar of incense. (Luke 1:8-12)

John describes an angel with a golden censer offering large amounts of incense before the throne of God:

Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne. The smoke of the incense along with the prayers of the holy ones went up before God from the hand of the angel. (Revelation 8:3-4)

In modern use, incensing is a symbol of purification and sanctification.

Incense may be used during the Mass during:
+ The entrance procession
+ The beginning of Mass, to incense the altar
+ The procession and proclamation of the Gospel
+ The offertory, to incense the offerings, altar, priest and people
+ The elevation of the Sacred Host and chalice of Precious Blood after the consecration

During funeral Masses, the priest may incense the coffin as a sign
+ Of honor to the body of the deceased which became the temple of the Holy Spirit at Baptism
+ Of the faithful’s prayers for the deceased rising to God

"Let my prayer come like incense before you." (Psalm 141)

For more information, see: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07716a.htm and http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/incense_offering.htm
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/INCENSE.htm
http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/current/revmissalisromanien.shtml

+ The Obelisk +

Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590) directed the obelisk to be re-erected at the center of the square in 1586, in front of the "new" Basilica of Saint Peter, which was being built at that time.

The Egyptologist Labib Habachi gives the most accepted reason in his book, "The Obelisk of Egypt" (1977 Charles Scribner's Sons):

"Legend has it that in the Vatican Circus innumerable Christians, including St. Peter, were put to death and that the reason this obelisk was not later overturned as were all the others in Rome was that it was looked upon as the last witness to the martyrdom of St. Peter."

To think that this obelisk, this exact piece of stone, may have been the last thing that Saint Peter looked upon before his death while being crucified upside down is awe inspiring.

http://members.aol.com/Sokamoto31/vaticano.htm

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 5

he is just a man made to be more than he should

Answer 6

Elected official.....

Answer 7

im scared :-O