The Pope

TABLOIDS MAKE GWEN STEFANI LOOK LIKE A RELIGIOUS FANATIC

David Pecker’s tabloids are in a religious frenzy over Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton – and her ex-husband Gavin Rossdale has been pulled into the mix. Gwen IS a good Catholic girl and she takes her kids to mass every Sunday. Blake Shelton often goes along for the ride, even though he’s not particularly religious. In Touch claimed awhile back that Blake was converting to Catholicism to please Gwen. He’s not, and she doesn’t expect him to. The National Enquirer says Gwen is appealing to the Pope to have her marriage to Gavin annulled so she can marry Blake in the church. Radar Online claimed Gavin nixed the annulment. None of it is true. In fact, Gwen and Blake are happy with their relationship as it is, and have no plans to marry, much less pester the Pope…

Above, Gavin Rossdale is perfectly calm with his kids in Beverly Hills

KANYE WEST CAN OUTSELL THE POPE – BUT NOT DIDDY!

Kanye West uses the art of distraction nearly as well as a certain presidential candidate. He recently bragged that he was “bigger than the Pope” by pointing out that he sold more t-shirts at his Madison Square Garden performance than the Pope did. He certainly did NOT want to acknowledge Forbes new list of The Forbes Five – the highest earning hip hop artists of the year. Kanye’s rival, Diddy was number one, followed by Dre, Jay Z, 50 Cent, and Birdman. Kanye, despite outselling the Pope with his overpriced t-shirts and bragging incessantly, didn’t even make it into the TOP TEN!

Photo Credit: AKM-GSI

PLEASE, NO MORE POPE CEREMONIES!

Is anybody else annoyed by this “Pope-mania” on TV and everywhere else? MUST we have continuous news coverage of this religious event in Rome? Is the Catholic religion REALLY of general interest? It’s not as if an American would ever end up as Pope. Why do Americans need to have a blow by blow report on the Pope election? We find that whole wealthy, male dominated, and conservative church difficult to relate to in modern times. We also believe most of the newscasters interrupting shows to breathlessly report papal smoke colors etc, were really bored out of their minds. When the new Pope FINALLY appeared we were relieved and then remembered there might be all kinds of swearing-in ceremonies and parades to come…