{"id":228,"date":"2009-04-05T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2009-04-05T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T15:00:12","slug":"cardinal-sins-catholic-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avatarplanet.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/cardinal-sins-catholic-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Sin’s Catholic Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cardinal Sin has to be the most cleverly named business proprietor in Second Life! When I first visited his Basilica Cardinale Cathedral Church Supplies site, I thought it had to be a joke, or a goth enterprise. It’s not. Cardinal Sin has written, "While I often take on the appearance of a priest when in-world, I am not a priest ‘in real life’. I am just a regular person with a love for religious beauty!" He’s apparently not even Catholic – he also writes, "I create religious vestments and church supplies for various religions; currently I am focussing on Catholicism."<\/p>\n

Falling from grace is not the only way a visitor should fear falling here. The Cathedral sits high in the sky, with only a small unfenced lawn in front, where rain was falling every time I visited. If you step over the edge, you’re likely to have a very long fall to whatever awaits you below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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When you first enter, you are in Cardinal Sin’s Cathedral. It’s not a functioning Cathedral – Cardinal Sin explicitly states that he is not a priest, and that he does not perform weddings here, though people are welcome to get married here on their own.<\/p>\n

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You’ll find this Renaissance-looking room to the left as you enter, complete with a confessional booth.<\/p>\n

Despite the pious appearance of Cardinal Sin’s Cathedral, it is a business, with the purpose of selling Cardinal Sin’s beautifully crafted Catholic clerical garb, animations, and other goods, such as stands of votive candles.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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To the right of the Cathedral, in the West Wing (Cardinal Sin has a knack for naming!) you’ll find the business end of the Cathedral, where you can buy anything you might want, whether you want to set up a complete Catholic church or simply to worship. <\/p>\n

In this picture, a prospective customer tries one of the devotional animations sold here.<\/p>\n

Is there really enough business outfitting Catholic churches in Second Life to support a business like this? Judging by some of the other customers I saw while here, I suspect that some customers have other motivations.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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One customer I observed shopping here belonged to a bevvy of slavery & bondage, vampire, and goth groups, while another, who claimed to be a priest who wanted to set up a Catholic Church in Second Life, said something about adults and children, asked me my ag,e and when I told him, he replied "legal" and teleported away. Judging by his profile, he is no priest.<\/p>\n

Gothic and other motivations aside, devout Catholics and Catholic priests will find an assortment of well crafted devotional items here. If you’re a Second Life member, you can teleport to it at slurl.com\/secondlife\/Braunworth\/109\/121\/584<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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