Friday, January 9, 2015

Angelina Jolie Screens Unbroken at the Vatican

Angelina Jolie was invited by Pope Francis to screen her film Unbroken at the Vatican. Us Weekly reports that while the Pope missed the screening, he met with Jolie afterwards. She was given a rosary. Jolie released the following statement: "To be invited to screen Unbroken at the Vatican is an honor and a tribute to Louie's legacy as a man of faith and someone who exemplified the power of forgiveness and the strength of the human spirit." Jolie was accompanied by two of her children, Zahara and Shiloh aka John.
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  1. cheesegrater15January 9, 2015 at 8:33 AM

    Did she make him kiss her ring?

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  2. Krystie RachelleJanuary 9, 2015 at 8:33 AM

    I wish the Shiloh thing wasnt such a thing. And the Vatican screens movies? Who knew.

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  3. SherryJanuary 9, 2015 at 8:46 AM

    The Vatican has everything! I understand the Pope eschewed the opulent dinners and instead went for something simple. Note that I care two poops about a Pope but as they go this one seems more of the people. Bless him.

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  4. Its just UJanuary 9, 2015 at 8:47 AM

    Coolaboola

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  5. MeanieRhysieJanuary 9, 2015 at 8:48 AM

    I thought Angelina was an atheist??

    Yeah, this guy certainly doesn't seem to be the usual Pope.

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    1. Its just UJanuary 9, 2015 at 8:58 AM

      Hey Rhysie. I think she is Atheist, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't respect the Vatican.
      At least, I'd hope she would.

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    2. cheesegrater15January 9, 2015 at 9:05 AM

      I'm an atheist and I freaking love this pope.

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    3. SugarTitzJanuary 9, 2015 at 10:08 AM

      anjie and brad are both atheists but she is downplaying her feelings on religion in order to sell the movie b/c it's playing well with the religious folks..
      i bet she made brad stay home so he wouldn't outshine her!!

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  6. auntliddyJanuary 9, 2015 at 9:04 AM

    I think its wonderful that two such seemingly random people are united in their goal of betterment of humanity. I wish more people had improvement of humanity as their goal. I mean, look at our senators and Reps. Are they doing anything to help americans? That behavoir disgusts me. Anyway, props to Angie!

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  7. UnknownJanuary 9, 2015 at 9:22 AM

    His first misstep.

    I read as St Angie of the blood vials SCREAMED....

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  8. Seven of ElevenJanuary 9, 2015 at 9:23 AM

    Same here, @cheesegrater. This pope seems to be the bee's knees.

    The things that are at the Vatican would boggle your mind. I would give my eye teeth to visit the secret archives there. Fun fact: Pres Lincoln's secretary had beautiful handwriting. I love beautiful handwriting.

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    1. auntliddyJanuary 9, 2015 at 9:38 AM

      7-11-the universe is right again! I agree!!

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    2. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM

      Seven, as a non Catholic I found The Vatican to be a very spiritual place. The art, the tombs it really is special.

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  9. ticklemyfancyJanuary 9, 2015 at 10:10 AM

    Angelina leaves me cold,I don't know why but she makes me bristle

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  10. RowdyRodimusJanuary 9, 2015 at 11:31 AM

    I forget what post it's on, but I posted a story near the beginning here where I relayed some of the stuff a nun that was a librarian at the Vatican told my Dad and Uncles about when they were her students. Not the usual "Original handwritten copies of the gospels", no, this was the "hidden library". I'll see if I can fi9nd where it was an repost it.

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    1. SugarTitzJanuary 9, 2015 at 12:08 PM

      rowdy i copied it

      Now, this is second or third hand about the Vatican's "Hidden Library" but according to my Dad, Uncle's and Aunt who went to a Catholic School held in a convent here, one of the nun's was a former Vatican nun who worked as a "librarian". Supposedly, she worked in the "Hidden Library" for a while and told some interesting things that were in there to the other nuns who then told students. According to what they were told:
      1) They have texts going back to the Old Testament days showing the real story of Moses and the Egyptians.
      2) Pieces of the "True Cross" and the cross Peter was crucified on.
      3) Epistles written by "Peter" that weren't included in the N.T.
      4) The nails that pierced Jesus' hands and feet (4, his feet were attached on opposite sides of the cross, not one on top of the other as in popular culture)
      5) Proof that Jesus was married and had children and that they were sent away after the Crucifixion for their safety.
      6) The proof that could change everyone's view of Judas showing that Jesus was never betrayed but was just arrested for basically breaking the laws of the Torah and the Romans.
      7) A lot of the books that were considered "The Library of Alexandria"
      8) Works by Newton, Michelangelo, Plato, Aristotle and Da Vinci
      9) The crypt/body of St. Peter
      10) Thousands of pounds of gold and silver coins from centuries ago (imagine the value in gold and silver content, let alone the value to collectors)
      And the one piece I find the most interesting:
      11) Letters to and from Saul/Paul of Tarsus to other church leaders at the time discussing the way they could get more converts by inventing a story of being blinded by a light that turns out to be Jesus coming from the clouds and changing Saul's life and giving him the name of Paul while making him a convert to Christianity, therefore making the entire story of a person who persecuted Christians converting and seeing the "truth" a lie. The early church was trying to get converts so they would have two things that they felt they were promised by Jesus but not given, money and power. Seemingly, they felt that by gaining many, many members, they would be able to gain their "kingdom" and were still abiding and doing the works that they were promised thereby still serving their "master" Jesus.

      You can see why they would send someone like that to a small(er) convent in Arkansas. You couldn't send her to one of the "major" states like New York, California, etc... there would be too big of a chance for those types of things getting out to the press and people. They sent her here but they never imagined something like the internet where the things she told people 60+ years ago could go out throughout the world with one button press like.
      Right.
      Now.
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      From
      I would love to find out the true story of a woman named Lori Erica Ruff. 

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    2. SugarTitzJanuary 9, 2015 at 12:09 PM

      i had it saved in my notebook

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    3. Sincerely,Your FriendJanuary 9, 2015 at 12:57 PM

      @Rowdy. @Surgar T
      Very cool on both UR parts.
      That's some sweet tea there.

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    4. RitaJanuary 9, 2015 at 1:07 PM

      Wow. And if that's just the things she could remember off the top of her head, it's unimaginable what else they have tucked away in there.

      Thanks for sharing!

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  11. SherryJanuary 9, 2015 at 1:21 PM

    So that means that Jesus could have just been delusional and think he was God's son...Not surprising.

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  12. UnknownJanuary 9, 2015 at 2:16 PM

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  13. UnknownJanuary 9, 2015 at 2:18 PM

    Pope Francis is the cool Pope y'all.

    Apparently at the time of Jesus a lot of young men were going around saying they were the Messiah. Jesus just had the IT factor. It would be like Messiah Idol. The Messiah Factor.

    The Christian church needed a Roman emperor to bring in the bling. I am a fan of the Martin Luther story myself. Another example of how one man can change the course of history. When you consider the wars it fueled and still fuels.

    Okay should I duck now? I purposely did not mention Mohammad though I could hav

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  14. RowdyRodimusJanuary 9, 2015 at 2:26 PM

    Thanks, Sugar! I knew I had put it on one post.

    Sherry, in all honesty, Jesus never claimed to be God's Son. The dogma of Jesus being God's son started with Paul as he and the rest of the living apostles tried to spread their new form of Judaism, which we call Christianity. The very earliest church's looked at Jesus the way they looked at Moses or Isaiah, as a prophetic teacher however, they looked at his prophecies and teachings to mean the end of the world was on it's way. It was only after the end didn't come did the leaders of the church begin teaching that Jesus was God's son and that the "Kingdom" he spoke of would be coming someday so until then Jesus' death and "Resurrection" (Something that wasn't brought up until decades after the fact) paved the way to Heaven for the believers. We call it Christianity and are taught that the first real leader of the church was Peter, but the person behind the scenes that did the most to spread it in the early years was Paul, hence why we have the "Pauline Gospels" as the accepted texts for the New Testament instead of some of the other Gnostic Texts that might be closer to what Jesus' original teachings were like.

    (Get that from most Gossip Sites lol)

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  15. Kat has left the buildingJanuary 9, 2015 at 3:47 PM

    I wonder if anyone has read The Da Vinci Code

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  16. RowdyRodimusJanuary 9, 2015 at 4:04 PM

    Kat, I've read it. Basically Brown took a lot of differing theories, threw them together and came up with a plot. His book is pretty much just a rewrite of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" with an action movie thrown in. The things I mentioned from the Vatican Libraries are things that were told to me from someone who was told by someone who was told by someone that worked there, so I'm not saying that's 100% what they have, they might have made it up for all i know.

    The part about early Christianity I mentioned is my theory/hypothesis based on years of studying the historicity of the religion and Jesus himself. It might not seem like it, but for a long time I was considered one of the best historians we had in the state and that was when I was a teenager. My Uncle is still pissed at me because I didn't finish school and become a historian, but like I told him, I was in school for that when I had my stroke and it's hard to pay for college when doctors won't let you work lol (He has plenty of money, dudes a literal multimillionaire so he could pay for it if he wanted to, he did for his other nephew and nieces).

    (And I realize you weren't saying I got that stuff from The DaVinci Code, but I wanted a reason to explain my theory and how I got to it. I'd be more than happy to produce a bibliography of the books and studies I've read lol)

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  17. MinPinGirlJanuary 10, 2015 at 1:23 AM

    @rowdy I've got Bloodline of the Holy Grail, the one you mentioned and Woman with the Alabaster Jar by Margaret Starbird. The last one is the easiest read if someone is interested in all that (have you read that one?). I have absolutely NO doubt they have texts that would completely undo "Christianity" as we know it in those vaults. They want to keep religion a patriarchy and so they'd never want to confirm that Jesus was married and had a family. Those guys are the biggest politicians of all. I will say, it's been great that this new pope has been promoting so many open minded views on things that would have gotten you killed during the Inquisition. Let's hope he keeps it up (and doesn't get assassinated for it).

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  18. Seven of ElevenJanuary 10, 2015 at 3:12 PM

    I have read the DaVinci Code and hated it. The writing is so clumsy ("his eyes turned white like a shark about to attack"? WTH does that even mean?) and derivative, and anytime he's called on his conspiracy theories, he responds that it's a work of fiction - despite the fact that he's said dozens of times in interviews and in print that everything he wrote is based on fact. BS, in the book he asserts that the Gnostic gospels were all about how God's totes feminist, but in fact the Gnostic gospels say that a woman can't be saved until God turns her into a man.

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