If Carla Bruni Sarkozy were to call IHateTheMedia.com and say she wanted to stop by for a visit, the Editor would scurry around cleaning up the empty pizza boxes while the Administrator ran down to the corner 7-Eleven to buy the finest beer they had in stock. We’re givers, damn it.
The Pope, not so much.
Time.com has the details of Bruni’s schism with the Catholic church:
Ahead of President Sarkozy’s 30-minute audience with the Pontiff earlier this month, Vatican officials sent the French ambassador a message saying:
“Carla Sarkozy is not welcome in the Vatican.” The message, which led her to stay in Paris, is said to be over the Pope’s fears that more racy photographs of her days as a catwalk model would emerge. Nude and semi-naked pictures from her days as a model are regularly published in the media. In one, she’s seen posing in just a pair of knee high boots and a diamond ring. (The U.S. didn’t seem to mind.)
President Sarkozy set up the meeting with the Pope after polls showed his popularity rating with French Catholics had fallen from 61% to 47% in the past year. Although raised a Catholic himself, Sarkozy is twice divorced and his current wife has an illegitimate child. The Elysée Palace in Paris had no comment on why the first lady stayed in Paris for the Vatican trip.
Let us make this clear. As much as Carla Bruni is not welcome at the Vatican, that’s how much she is welcome at IHateTheMedia.com. Feel free to drop by any time, Carla.
We also take confessions.
Source: Time.com
