{"id":2223,"date":"2005-09-20T00:07:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T00:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/vatican-watcher-goes-renaissance.html"},"modified":"2005-09-20T00:07:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T00:07:12","slug":"vatican-watcher-goes-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/vatican-watcher-goes-renaissance.html","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Watcher goes Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and remarks at the total lack of any Christian characters or imagery at his Renaissance Fair of choice.<\/a> <\/p>\n

We used to love to go to the Bay Area Renaissance Faire in Largo<\/a>, and I always noted the same thing. Well, there would be a blustering bishop roaming around and a drunken friar or two, but, as Jacob notes, it was mostly Pagan\/Faux Celtic\/Blessed Be on the spiritual side.  Wouldn’t have that problem, I imagine, if such a thing (in this case, a Medieval Fair) would be co-sponosred by a Catholic parish, as Mark Shea notes.<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and remarks at the total lack of any Christian characters or imagery at his Renaissance Fair of choice. We used to love to go to the Bay Area Renaissance Faire in Largo, and I always noted the same thing. 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