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September 4th, 2007

The wearing of the green

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: Uncategorized

Save the planet before it’s too late, Pope urges
 

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Intentionally wearing green vestments, he spoke to a vast crowd of mostly young people sprawled over a massive hillside near the Adriatic city of Loreto…  

I’m sorry to tell you that was not a special environmetal color, but just the liturgical color for that Sunday. In fact this part of the Catholic liturgical year called “tempus per annum,” the liturgical color to be worn in the Mass is green, that expresses the hope Christians have in Christ.

Gianfranco

Several readers called this to our attention. We fixed it very quickly in the story, but through poor internal communication, the problem word, “intentionally,” remained up in our video clip of the story quite a bit longer: GBU Editor

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In case you’re wondering why people are ignoring MSM coverage, this would be ‘exhibit A’. Y’all just don’t get it. Ever.

- Posted by gb

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