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Offline poche

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The Secret Catholic
« on: April 06, 2018, 04:42:07 AM »
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    • When we think of Andy Warhol we think he represents everything that is antithetical to the Catholic Faith. There was another side to him that very few people know about;
     
    On April 1, 1987, the most popular artists, actors, fashion designers, writers and musicians in America converged on St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Liza Minnelli showed up, along with Calvin Klein, Tom Wolfe and George Plimpton. Yoko Ono arrived a bit early; she was giving a speech.
    One could have easily mistaken Andy Warhol’s memorial service for a society event rather than a religious one, were it not for the eulogy given by the artist’s friend John Richardson. He spoke of Warhol’s “secret piety”, which “inevitably changes our perception of an artist who fooled the world into believing his only obsessions were money, fame and glamour, and that he was cool to the point of callousness. Never take Andy at face value.”

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    Offline monka966

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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #1 on: April 06, 2018, 07:27:36 AM »
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    • Thank you for posting, poche. A very interesting article.
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #2 on: April 06, 2018, 08:15:32 PM »
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    • I think he was a very sick man, in mind, body, and soul.  Only God knows where he is now, but he is certainly not someone who lived a life worthy of study.


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    In 1964, Warhol opened his own art studio, a large silver-painted warehouse known simply as "The Factory." The Factory quickly became one of New York City's premier cultural hotspots, a scene of lavish parties attended by the city's wealthiest socialites and celebrities, including musician Lou Reed, who paid tribute to the hustlers and transvestites he'd met at The Factory with his hit song "Walk on the Wild Side" — the verses of which contain descriptions of individuals who were fixtures at the legendary studio/warehouse in the '60s, including Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, "Little Joe" Dallesandro, "Sugar Plum Fairy" Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis. (Warhol was a friend of Reed's and managed Reed's band, the Velvet Underground.)
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #3 on: April 07, 2018, 02:25:09 AM »
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    • Quote from: Marlelar on April 06, 2018, 08:15:32 PM
    I think he was a very sick man, in mind, body, and soul.  Only God knows where he is now, but he is certainly not someone who lived a life worthy of study.

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    He is an example of why we pray for the souls in Purgatory. It will be a huge surprise for many people to see who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell. 
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #4 on: April 07, 2018, 09:24:49 AM »
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    • That goes without saying.  Aside from those men and women canonized prior to V2, only God knows the final disposition of a soul.
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #5 on: April 07, 2018, 10:45:11 PM »
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    • It is this secret piety that the Vatican Museums hope to uncover in their major exhibition of his work next year. Indeed, the Catholic faith is the only constant theme in his strange life.
    Warhol’s parents were born in a village on the northern border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They were Ruthenians: members of a small Byzantine Catholic Church that grew out of Cyril and Methodius’s mission to the Carpathian Mountains. In 1909, his father moved to Pittsburgh, home of the largest Ruthenian community outside Europe. His mother followed in 1921, and their son Andrew was born seven years later. His father worked as a coal miner until he died when Warhol was 13.



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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #6 on: April 07, 2018, 11:14:10 PM »
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    • Anyone can call themselves Catholic, that doesn't make them so.  

    Warhol did not live in a country, like China, where being Catholic invites persecution and would explain a perceived need to be a closet Catholic.  

    IF he was a closet Catholic he had no excuse for being so, but his ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ life speaks otherwise.  Contrary to his own claims to have remained celibate, numerous men have come forth to contract him, too many to be ignored.

    Only God knows where his soul is now, and only God cares. 

    The End.
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #7 on: April 07, 2018, 11:45:41 PM »
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    • Quote from: Marlelar on April 07, 2018, 11:14:10 PM
    Anyone can call themselves Catholic, that doesn't make them so.  

    Warhol did not live in a country, like China, where being Catholic invites persecution and would explain a perceived need to be a closet Catholic.  

    IF he was a closet Catholic he had no excuse for being so, but his ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ life speaks otherwise.  Contrary to his own claims to have remained celibate, numerous men have come forth to contract him, too many to be ignored.

    Only God knows where his soul is now, and only God cares.

    The End.
    He could be in Purgatory.
    May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
    :pray: :pray: :pray:
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #8 on: April 08, 2018, 12:16:01 AM »
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    • Quote from: Marlelar on April 07, 2018, 11:14:10 PM
    Only God knows where his soul is now, and only God cares.

    The End.
    As I said.
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #9 on: April 09, 2018, 03:48:48 AM »
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    • In 1955, the shoe brand I. Miller hired Warhol to illustrate its advertisements in the New York Times. Critics compared the results to Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters. This drawing upon commercial themes in the pursuit of high culture came to define the Pop Art movement. It also placed Warhol at the centre of the New York avant garde, and his studio (nicknamed “the Factory”) became its headquarters.
    The contrast with his working-class, immigrant Catholic boyhood could not be starker. All the hallmarks of the Sixties were there: drugs, sex, radical politics, more drugs. Several of the Warhol Superstars – minor artists whose work he promoted – overdosed or committed ѕυιcιdє in their twenties or thirties.


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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #10 on: April 09, 2018, 09:29:29 AM »
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    • No one cares. 
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #11 on: April 10, 2018, 03:34:15 AM »
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    • Religion kept Warhol from going over the brink. He attended Mass almost daily. Other days he would just slip into St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, drop into the back pew and pray. He spent his Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters volunteering at a soup kitchen, and befriended the homeless and poor whom he served. He put his nephew through seminary. Though openly gαy, he endeavoured to remain celibate throughout his life. When he refused to support the gαy rights movement, many of his friends blamed his faith.
    He lived with his mother until she died, and every morning they would pray together in Old Slavonic before he left for the Factory. He always carried a rosary and a small missal in his pocket.


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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #12 on: April 10, 2018, 10:31:41 AM »
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    • No one cares. 
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #13 on: April 11, 2018, 01:28:48 AM »
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    • Quote from: Marlelar on April 10, 2018, 10:31:41 AM
    No one cares.
    I think we should care. Andy Warhol has a what is an understandably bad reputation, he did go to daily mass and lived a life of prayer in his private life. He financed his nephew's education through the seminary. He endeavoured to remain celibate. He refused to support the gαy rights movement. He lived with his mother until she died, and every morning they would pray together in Old Slavonic before he left for the Factory. He always carried a rosary and a small missal in his pocket.
    He is an example why we should pray for the souls in Purgatory and why we should not be so quick to judge those who we know only superficially.  
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    Re: The Secret Catholic
    « Reply #14 on: April 11, 2018, 11:35:49 AM »
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    • Only God will judge the soul.
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