much had it in his hand to consecrate the body and blood of christ and that s special. and lauren green is asking to take it home, i m not going to let her do that, but i think this is a side of the human element the of this whole experience we knew him, we loved him and it s nice to have a holy hero not just michael jackson as greg burke mentioned. you know, the pontiff benedict in his homily this morning talked about a variety of issues about how pope john paul ii opened political systems, fogs, and dealt with marxism. father jonathan, you met pope john paul ii and you have that chalice and the meaning to your life and others, can you describe that. sure. well, a lot has been said about the whole dealing with the sex abuse scandal in the church and how the priests have gone through so much over
this is the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world. happy are those who are called to his supper. and people saying: lord, i am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and i shall be healed. and the holy father, quietly, may the body of christ bring everlasting life. may the blood of christ bring me to everlasting life. another priest and cares for
is fascinating is today is reek easter. they don t have the pastel colors of spring, they have eggs dyed red. on blood thursday we will dye the eggs in a beautiful deep red color and cover them with oil so they become shiny and these eggs the red symbolic of the blood of christ and one of the more fun traditions of greek easter is have an egg smashing competition, take yours and mine and whoever egg smashes first is the loser but you have to go tip to tip. where do we get the easter egg hunt and the candy, is that us getting it s symbolic. the fact it s evolved into something that is candy and chocolate filled and have a look at the abundance over here, but the egg being something that is fertile, the symbol of
pastor, can t get enough people into the congregation so he s trying to think of ways to lure them in and his idea is and parpbl the guy who plays the priest in the ad is a devout catholic, so he hands out doritos instead of the holy communion, he hands out pepsi instead of the blood of christ, the wine, when you go up for communion, and that s the premise, to try to lure them in. is it really mocking catholicism, leslie? no, and i want to say to somebody baptized and although not a practicing catholic, if you re outraged about that, how about not bingo? that s in the father s house. this is humor. although i m not a spokesperson i think god as a sense of humor. he deals with us and puts up with us on a daily basis. i have to say i thought it was creative, funny and nowadays, i don t think there s anything out there that doesn t offend anyone, and that s the shame. megyn: but the argument is, we had bill donahue,
he can t feel anything. i like boehner. i like him because he smokes, but why can t the republicans just do normal please don t cry. can t they find a normal person somewhere? i think he is normal. he is normal, but he s emotional. look, i have cried in interviews. i can get choked up. the bottom line is if obama cried they would collect the tears in the bottles like it was the blood of christ. i can t be a hipocrite. if obama cried i would be the first ridiculing and laughing at him. and therefore i cannot sit here and go to boehner going, oh look at his sensitive side. frankly, that was more than crying. that was blubbering. it was intense and a little uncomfortable, but i won t hold it against him. is he just showing his