Irish company installs 'giant drive-thru confession box'
Aug 27, 2018 14:54:14 GMT
Post by Admin on Aug 27, 2018 14:54:14 GMT
Irish company installs 'giant drive-thru confession box' for Pope's visit
USA Today Aug. 22, 2018 | Updated 12:24 p.m. ET Aug. 22, 2018
A company in Ireland built a 40-foot drive-thru confession box to help sinners repent for their sins in preparation for the Pope's weekend visit to the country for the first time since 1979.
Paddy Power, an Irish sportsbook company, is pulling a rather large prank to help the Irish repent for "decades of sins in seconds" before Pope Francis visits this weekend to speak with victims of sexual abuse.
The oversize confession box drive-through will act as "an express lane to eternal salvation for Ireland's lapsed Catholics," according to the company website. A quarter of Catholics haven't attended confession — the act of admitting your wrongdoings to a priest and receiving the forgiveness for sins in return — in over a decade, the betting company claims.
Citing a "specially commissioned survey" that claims 80 percent of Irish people don't attend confession regularly with 60 percent of people saying confession isn't convenient, the drive-through will help motorists "clear their conscience on the go."
Pope Francis's visit marks the first time a pope has journeyed to the island since 1979 when millions of Catholics turned out to greet Pope John Paul II. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend Francis's mass in Phoenix Park Sunday.
“Ireland has changed a lot since the last Pope’s visit – gay marriage is legal, we’ve repealed the Eighth Amendment, and even secretly cheered for England in the World Cup,” Paddy Power said in a statement on the website.
“With decades worth of sins clocked up since then, we’re providing a convenient means to complete your contrition with your keys still in the ignition.”
Ahead of @pontifex's visit this weekend, we thought we'd erect a drive-thru confession box, to enable the people of Ireland to repent decades of sins in mere seconds... pic.twitter.com/gln9vUDbMB
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) August 20, 2018
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[Mockery of the Catholic Faith is becoming more commonplace in the world today. Recall these words of Mgsr. Jouin regarding the continuous fight against the Faith by the dark forces of Freemasonry:
Speech by Monseigneur Jouin, December 8, 1930
Papacy and Freemasonry, those are the two powers active throughout the world and each is seeking to dominate it. The solution of the struggle taking place between them is, at the present moment of the utmost importance; for we are face to face not only with the crossroads of history but also with a radical transformation of humanity itself. Either Roman Catholicism will lift us up again to the level of Christian civilization or else Judeo-Masonry will drag us down the path of barbarism and decadent paganism. The whole world oscillates between the two: Christianism and Paganism. On December 8th, 1892, Pope Leo XIII wrote to the Italian Episcopal Hierarchy:
Papacy and Freemasonry, those are the two powers active throughout the world and each is seeking to dominate it. The solution of the struggle taking place between them is, at the present moment of the utmost importance; for we are face to face not only with the crossroads of history but also with a radical transformation of humanity itself. Either Roman Catholicism will lift us up again to the level of Christian civilization or else Judeo-Masonry will drag us down the path of barbarism and decadent paganism. The whole world oscillates between the two: Christianism and Paganism. On December 8th, 1892, Pope Leo XIII wrote to the Italian Episcopal Hierarchy:
"It is necessary to fight Freemasonry with those weapons of divine faith which in past ages vanquished paganism."
Moreover the Papacy and Judeo-Masonry are both so fully conscious of the diametrically opposed parts that they are playing that they assume that from it must issue the political, economic, intellectual and religious future of individuals as well as of nations. It is a fact and the better proof of it is their irreducible antagonism toward each other.
What is, indeed, Judeo-Masonry today if not the concentration and mobilization of all evil forces? This Sect with its threefold claim of being Counter-Church (against the Church), Counter-State (against the State) and Counter-Morality (against traditional morality) takes pride in being above all and for all times the enemy of the Catholic Church; one of its rallying calls is that of Tigrotto, one of the Alta Vendita chiefs who, in 1822, proclaimed:"Catholicism must be destroyed throughout the whole world." ]