A nice little story about Archbishop John Foley addressing a group of advertisers. Archbishop Foley is the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and, as it happens, a REALLY funny guy. He came with on last year’s Catholic Answers Cruise to Alaska, and kept the attendees in stiches with his humorous reminiscences about his career in the Church. With the native talents to do stand-up comedy, he’s by far the least dry Church official I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet.
His address to a group of advertisers put me in mind of a line from the 1967 film Bedazzled, in which Peter Cook (playing the devil) explains to Dudley More what a rut he’s been in of late:
There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas. . . . I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I’ve come up with recently is advertising.
