Jesuits like Tom Waits
I'm still thinking about redoing this site in the very near future, but couldn't help circulating this article:
Drugs, alcohol and sex: why the Jesuits like Tom Waits -
The Times Online
At last the Vatican has found a rock oddball who embodies the softer side of Christianity.
Even if Tom Waits’s songs, which include Dragging a Dead Priest, are sung in a rasping voice that seems to have been soaked in a whisky barrel, he has won over friends in the Jesuit order. Barely a week after Pope Benedict XVI disclosed his dislike for the “prophets of pop” and Bob Dylan in particular, the Jesuits in Rome have embraced Waits as a Christian role model.
Drugs, alcohol and sex: why the Jesuits like Tom Waits -
The Times Online
At last the Vatican has found a rock oddball who embodies the softer side of Christianity.
Even if Tom Waits’s songs, which include Dragging a Dead Priest, are sung in a rasping voice that seems to have been soaked in a whisky barrel, he has won over friends in the Jesuit order. Barely a week after Pope Benedict XVI disclosed his dislike for the “prophets of pop” and Bob Dylan in particular, the Jesuits in Rome have embraced Waits as a Christian role model.
