Comments on: London's gay and liberal landscape welcomes the German Pope https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/ Gardenvisit.com Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Guido Van Wilmart https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2513 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:21:32 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2513 You have seen the Wiki list of sexually active popes? Don’t you trust them. They have too much of money. They have too little of piety. Better if they all marry.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2512 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:42:57 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2512 In reply to Guido Van Wilmart.

Is it conceivable that when His Holiness considers the protection of males, rather than females (from HIV infection) that he is thinking about Catholic priests from HIV? I can imagine that he is cross with them and also that he cares for them – but surely he would not call them prostitutos.

]]> By: Guido Van Wilmart https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2511 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:38:15 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2511 Huh. See this: ‘a report has been issued that details what went on, including more than a dozen suicides linked to the abuse perpetrated by priests and a cover up that continues to this day, when a Belgian bishop suggested that a complaint be withheld until 2011, when the bishop who covered up for the offending priest will retire.’ I embarrass for my country and I hope Flemish Belgium leaves behind French Belgium. Those Walloons even can keep Brussel and they can call it Bruxelles. I care no more.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2510 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:15:06 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2510 Guido: you are too kind. I would of course be very pleased if the Gardenvisit website had contributed one small puff to the wind of change which, inexorably and inevitably, will cause the Vatican to change its ideas and its policies on HIV, homosexuality, contraception and marriage. All are important and he might as well start with his own priests.
How are you getting on with your research on ecclesiastical buggery in Late-Medieval Burgandy?

]]> By: Guido Van Wilmart https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2509 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:44:07 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2509 Hah, have you done well! I hear today the Pope has decided allow the condom for the prostitute. In Italian he say uno prosituto. This can mean either the man prostitute or the woman prostitute. But in English he say ‘a male prostitute’. Really, I think the Gardenvisit has persuaded the Pope. Please to tell him that all prostitutes MUST use the condom. Thank you very much. Keep the good work going. We will reform the catholic church together. Prostitutes today and women tomorrow. Then the population growing can stop.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2508 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:49:48 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2508 Thank you for bringing the blog back to design and for raising an interesting point. One is tempted to think that although gardens made by renaissance cardinals, like the Villa Lante and the Villa d’Esta, were departures from faith, like the renaissance popes’ ‘nephews’, but they may be better thought of as attempts by the church to embrace a wider universe of human knowledge and experience – which can properly be described as ‘catholic’. I cannot see that narrow mindedness benefits the priesthood or the laity.

]]> By: Thomas Mickey https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2507 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:13:24 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2507 Early English landscape gardeners, like John Evelyn, traveled to Italy to learn about Italian garden design. The Pope’s Vatican Garden and the summer villas of the Cardinals gave him much inspiration to bring back to England. The history of landscape owes much to the Roman Catholic Church, which feared not creating fountains, grottos, pools,terraces etc. to remind us all of the beauty in nature. Evelyn and others then Anglicized the Italian style.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2506 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:01:47 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2506 The church should stand for the virtues: truth, love, honour, kindness, humility, generosity and all the others.

]]> By: Guido Van Wilmart https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2505 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:59:04 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2505 Thank you for the picture permission.
Do you believe Cardinal Walter Kasper is not in the UK for health reasons? I think the Vatican is again telling a lie. I think Kasper is not in UK because he made stupid comments and upset the UK media.

]]> By: Adam Hodge https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/londons-liberal-landscape-welcomes-the-pope/#comment-2504 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:25:54 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5261#comment-2504 ”and it is in an absolute hellish quagmire when its bretheren do one thing and say another thing. Hypocrisy is a good candidate nomination as the Eigth Deadly Sin”

I don’t think more true words are written. It is deeply shameful that it has and does happen so much. The church needs to get on its knees and get involved in some serious contrition and reparation, to God, and each individual it has failed to honour.

]]>