From Andrew Scott Wells Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 07:58
> > "If all copies of Pope John Paul II's new CD sell, he'll claim the best > > selling record of all time. Come March 29, 100 million copies > of "Abba Pater" > > will be released in 50 countries. Produced by Sony and Vatican > Radio, the > > album features the pope doing prayers in five languages over a > background of > > world and classical music. "It's not Bach, Beethoven, or > Springsteen," says > > Sony exec Fausto Barzaghi. "More like ecclesiastical rap." > > Wow, but here's the real question: who will do the remixes? > > -Andrew Gotta have RDJ's "Come to Daddy" playing softly in the background (the church paraphrases that song in practice as it is; why not take it to the next level?). Make a video! Have little kids with pope-faces chasing people around with rosaries. Put some life back into the Vatican. They haven't had any real fun since the renaissance (an unfounded accusation of witchcraft and heresy used to MEAN something, dammit!). Those were the days, Edith! --Andy Wells, CTA (=Catholic-turned-agnostic)