The Times got the Cardinal to comment on the Catholic-imagination clothing on the celebrities. He happened to say, "That I want to look at more closely," which I think he probably meant as I have been concentrating on the museum treasures and don't have anything to say yet about what these live people have on, but it came out — at least in this article — sounding like he was planning to gape at the live fleshly bodies on display. As if what's really going on in his Catholic imagination is that other passion — sexual passion. Magnificent!
Here's a series of 61 photos of the celebrities at the gala, in case you want to see how they interpreted "the Catholic imagination." Rihanna has a bejeweled bishop's mitre on her head. Lots of the ladies had headpieces that look like the stylized halo in a medieval icon. Katy Perry wore huge angel wings that insured that no one could stand next to her. Kim Kardashian had crosses on her body-as-a-chalice dress. Kanye approved of his wife:
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i guess i was confused about the Catholic church?
I had thought they were Christians, not pagan* orgy people
pagan* People Against Goodness And Normality
I don't have time to look at the pictures right now, but did any hot chick, like, dress up in a Catholic schoolgirl skirt and shit?
Because that fucking rocks. Even a chick who isn't that hot looks like she could be hot when dressed up like that. I think that's, like, the power of God and shit.
Unfortunately the prelates of the Church have been, at best, weak defenders of the faith for some time now.
#5 at the link, "Solange Knowles wearing Iris van Herpen."
What the....?
It's like one of those costumes where it looks like you're riding a horse only she's riding a giant, black patent vulva.
I haven't encountered the word "chasuble" since I was an altar boy (not sure what they call them now - altar boys, not chasubles).
Since I left home after high school, my shadow hasn't darkened the door of a church except for weddings and funerals.
Joan of Arc she ain't.
Wilbur, acolyte? Or Acolyter Kardashian.
Rev. Chasuble was the clergyman in The Importance of Being Earnest.
None tried a version of the typical cofradia procession outfit. Would certainly make a splash and freak out some idiots.
Not much there thats Catholic as such, though one of the ladies had on a mantilla, which certainly is typically Southern European and Catholic. So one point.
On the whole a general case of a lack of imagination and research. There is plenty they could have used had they known where to look.
Ritual sacrifice to gods that can only be performed by properly attired Priests is as Pagan as the hills. Catholics claim that since the risen Christ conquered the pagan cults, they now like to show off the pagan loot. But what Catholics avoid acknowledging is that adding Christ to the pagan brand is not enough to to justify their also reinstituting dependence on sacrifial rituals called sacraments. The theology of Paul, St. Augustine, and Calvin is the needed antidote. It alone acts as Kryptonite to the many pagan god cults of the Roman Empire nonsense.
Most of whats going on there looks a lot more like a black mass-themed party. Satanists of the theatrical Anton LaVey type like using Catholic symbolism and twisting it.
Did anyone show up to turn the tables over? That would have been good.
Kanye is right again.
Good thing the Church is going easy on sin and stuff.
No perfumed altar boys?
I'd like to know how much money this makes for the Met, net. Bet it's like the WHCD, most goes to expenses.
I loved the dress made out of chain mail. I wonder how much it weighed?
Kim is starting to look like the dame from Who Framed Roger Rabbit without the red hair.
Kim can turn muddy water into wine.
Hillary and Huma... wearing handcuffs.
“Did anyone show up to turn the tables over? That would have been good.”
Threadwinner for certain. This is the kind of shit that makes cracker Evangelicals assert that Catholics aren’t Christians.
Next year, a Muslim-themed gala. Now that would make some heads, um, explode.
Kendall Jenner, no. 45, has short trains on her slacks following her around. Locomotion must be dangerous.
Is there an actual party involved or just a fashion show?
No Catholic schoolgirls.
That "schoolgirl" look attached to Catholic parochial schools is a very American thing, and is very recent, mainly because Catholic parochials had uniforms in the first place, unlike US public schools. The US has been an outlier in not requiring school uniforms.
School uniforms are typical in schools all over the world, most of Europe anyway, and Catholic girls schools are not usually identifiable that way.
the golden calf ball.
I find this to be just bizarre. And I am not Catholic. Why would anyone in their right mind participate in such a thing? But then, I look at the guest list...
Hardly a breast on display, unlike red carpets.
Catholic = no breasts visible.
buwaya: None tried a version of the typical cofradia procession outfit. Would certainly make a splash and freak out some idiots.
My thoughts exactly. That would've rocked.
Fellini did it better.
" a very American thing, and is very recent,"
and the Japanese have even more recently taken that ball and ran with it; to great effect
Fellini did it better.
I was just thinking the same thing.
"Fellini did it better"
Of course. Fellini was Catholic, and knew his subject.
He knew what to mock.
Fellini was Catholic, and knew his subject. He knew what to mock.
I always found it a critique of the profane and not the sacred, but I take your point.
Scarlett Johansson wins by a mile. She always does and always will, but her competetion is bleak.
Cindy Crawford wins the Dorothy Kilgallen look. By a neck.
Someone should have dressed normally and brought an entourage of poor people who could never afford to go to such an event on their own.
@FreemanHunt- that would have been perfect!
I've always thought of New York City as the Whore of Babylon. First time I've seen it actually represented in real life, though.
The overall effect is unsettling. Looks like a party of the damned. Like a prophet needs to run in off the street and cry, "Turn now! Repent and believe! For the kingdom of God is at hand!"
Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" is an interesting way to look at such functions.
This was in our Catholic school readers of course.
Jessica Rabbit!!!
-sw
I don't know if they do it in NY, but there have been Masses given with specific invitations to prostitutes.
That sort of thing seems very apt, and I am surprised it's not done more often.
These people aren't happy, the poor and drug addicted on the street, or the rich and drug-addicted preyed on by Weinsteins and Schneidermans.
This is the first time I have ever seen the word chasuble outside of Stephan R. Donaldson's excellent Mordant's Need duology:
The Mirror of Her Dreams
and
A Man Rides Through
This is Donaldson's, I won't say happiest, but perhaps most approachable work. If all you know him from is the angst-fest of Thomas Covenant, or worse the Gap books, this is well worth your time. A Donaldson messed-up protagonist who actually grows, resolves the problems facing her, and finds happiness in the end.
Kim's "waist trainer" in full effect
Blogger the 4chan Guy who reads Althouse said...
did any hot chick, like, dress up in a Catholic schoolgirl skirt and shit?
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Schoolgirl, one cup
How is this not cultural appropriation?
What a garbage event.
Maybe Kim's not insipid. She's just drawn that way.
Dolan is giving Chaucer a run for his money assifying Catholic ministers.
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