Newsletter #128
Dear Friends and Benefactors,
Vulgarity, slang language, and tattoos are some of the bad fruits of a corrupted society influenced by the devil and his agents. On the other hand, the good fruits of a Catholic civilization elevate man to the highest perfection that he can attain with the help of grace. In the past, this quest for perfection – trying to reflect God in everything – led to the constant refinement of man, not only in the order of knowledge and morals, but also in his customs, dress and language. In these times of apostacy and immorality, we are seeing a “civilized” society return to paganism.
VULGARITY IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE DEVIL
“What is man that thou art mindful of him or the Son of Man that thou visitest him? Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor.” (Psalm 8:5-6)
The passage of Psalm 8 declares that God has made man a little less than the angels. Thus, we should act in a manner similar to that of angels.
One way this was manifested in Christian civilization was in speech. People lived up to their Christian witness by adopting languages used in polite company.
Swearing, cursing and vulgarity, as the Catholic writer F. Slobodnik explains, have always been associated with those who do not live Christian or virtuous lives. This stigma made even those who were not Christian mindful of avoiding foul language on many occasions.
This negative perception of vulgarity is no longer valid. The increased acceptance of vulgar language is everywhere. Vulgarity has swept over society in every aspect, much like a tsunami. What was once so rare today is common. People do not consider whether priests, religious, women or children are present. There is a total absence of self-restraint.
The use of foul language now extends to every race, sex, age and state of life. Instead of being castigated as something censorable, people use vulgar speech as a way of fitting in with a culture that idolizes this usage as “cool” or “radical.”
Vulgarity has a leveling influence, which reduces everything to the lowest possible level. Thus, the rich, the highly educated and even religious think using such language is a sign of equality, not depravity.
Some who identify themselves as religious, conservative, pro-life or pro-family sometimes use vulgarity and seem to feel no shame in doing so. For our godless society, using vulgarity somehow makes one’s opinion stronger.
Vulgarity is associated with all things evil. The most intense examples of vulgarity come from the possessed. Accounts of satanic possessions or manifestations have one common denominator: extreme use of vulgarity. Vulgarity and blasphemy might be called the language of demons.
Some might ask what is wrong with vulgarity. First of all, it is an offense against God and Christian charity. Saint Paul commands, “Put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander and foul talk from your mouth” (Colossians 3:8). Secondly, foul speech goes against the nature and end of speech, which is the communication of the truth, good and beauty to others. Thus, good speech should elevate and ennoble. Vulgar speech is barbaric and animalistic. It drags a person down into the mud.
The reasons for this flood of vulgarity are many.
The first one is the destruction of the walls of decency that used to defend society from its attacks. In the past, vulgarity was not only frowned upon but strongly censured. Public expressions of vulgarity were met with disgust and even confrontation.
Children were formed to avoid using vulgarity. In the past, good mothers warned children that if a vulgar word was used, a bar of soap awaited them.
Another cause of increased vulgarity is today’s horrible culture of death. When society accepts the murder of unborn children, counterfeit marriage and pornography, it cheapens all life. People no longer are focused on the practice of virtue but on selfish narcissism. If the body cannot be controlled, language also suffers since it requires effort and virtue to speak well. Those who do not defend innocent human life, traditional marriage or the traditional family easily avoid restraint in every facet of life, including language.
Another reason for an increase in vulgarity is the extreme casualness of our society. Those who do not make the effort to groom and dress in an uplifting manner will tend to be lax in the use of language. To use good posture, wear a suit and tie, wear a nice dress, etc., requires effort and self-restraint that is often (but not always) reflected in language. The accepted uniform of our times is denim, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes. This manner of dress is seen everywhere and in almost all situations, including at Holy Mass.
If one is casual and lazy about the little things in life, this can also lead to casualness and laziness about important things in life, including the use of language. Vulgarity is especially reflected in ripped jeans, dirty t-shirts, and grubby tennis shoes. Grooming and dressing well encourages good behavior and cleanliness in manner and language. Vulgarity and unnecessary casualness can create a sense of feeling dirty that manifests itself in language.
If we want to demonstrate our love for God above all things, we should do all that we can to adore and please Him. We should act like angels.
Let us reject today’s vulgar, contemporary culture that wants to push us away from God and toward Satan.
“From filthy speaking, we ourselves must entirely abstain and stop the mouths of those who practice it by stern looks and averting the face and by what we call making a mock of one: often also by a harsher mode of speech. For what proceedeth out of the mouth, He says, ‘defileth a man, ‘ – shows him to be unclean, heathenish, untrained, licentious, and not, select, proper, honourable and temperate.” (Saint Clement of Alexandria)
SLANG LANGUAGE (“KIDS”)
It was in the 1960s and 1970s, as Dr. Horvat writes, that a slang term began to be introduced in certain circles that were trying to be up-to-date and modern. I am talking about the introduction of the word ‘kids’ used to refer to children.
It certainly was not common usage then. Kids was never used by a priest on the pulpit or a teacher in the classroom. Parents with any grain of culture did not call their children ‘kids’. The media shunned the term. Persons who prided themselves on a good English never used ‘kids’ in their daily speech.
I remember the first time my mother heard one of my brothers use the term, she reacted energetically. “You are not kids,” she firmly told us – her children. “Kids are young goats. You are children.”
She was right. Kid comes from the Middle English “kide”, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse “kidh”, a young goat. This was the first definition in my 1969 American Heritage Dictionary. Only under the heading ‘Slang’ does it note that the word may also refer to “one especially younger or less experienced, e.g. the kid on the pro golf tour, or poor kid.” Today, if you go to an online dictionary, you find a subtle but important difference in the definition. The first meaning is still “a young goat.” But now, as a second or third definition – without the warning signal of slang – we are told that kid means a young person or child.
That is to say, what once was considered vulgar jargon is now being accepted as part of everyday speech. Today, unfortunately, almost everyone calls children ‘kids’. I have even heard traditional priests preaching: “Parents, if you want your kids to say their prayers, you have to give the example.”
A bulletin for conservative parents notes that “home schooling is working well for the kids, even though the practice is coming under increasing suspicion, and even attack, as in California.” How paradoxical, I think. The same traditional-minded groups who are fighting the vulgar, dumb-down influences of the schools are nonetheless adopting – and thereby legitimizing – the same vulgar, dumb-down jargon of the masses in their daily language.
The word is all-pervading – “Buy Big Kids or Little Kids shoes or boots.” The implication, of course, is that we are all kids – frolicking little goats that never grow up. Then there is the “Big Songs for Little Kids” – gospel music for little goats?
Even nice restaurants, museums and exhibitions have taken to using the term: “Kids’ meals available,” “Kids under 12 enter free.” Book titles justify the word for parents and offspring: we have Real Kids’ Readers, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Everything Kids’ Cookbook, and so on.
MAN’S DIGNITY
Today we hear much about the importance of the dignity of man. At the same time, we adopt language, customs and dress that persistently reduce the dignity of men and women.
Need I recall the daily clothing of men and women – the unisex sweat suit, the tiresome blue jean and t-shirt, the perpetual tennis shoes – that diminish the dignity of men and erase differences in professions and social levels? Not to mention the immoral women’s fashions that give even teenage girls the appearance of women of the street, not children of God.
Our customs have likewise been transformed: Gone are the formal greetings, the polite address of Mr. Jones or Miss Greene, gentlemen opening doors for ladies, and so on. The list is interminable and gloomy for those who oppose the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and do all they can to oppose and fight it in the ambiences of their own homes.
But the Cultural Revolution does not just influence customs and clothing. The same leveling, vulgarizing trend has found its way into daily language, habituating a generation to accept common and egalitarian forms of speech. Men and women are addressed ambiguously as ‘guys’. Persons are said to ‘crack up’ instead of laugh. They are no longer described as ‘blushing’, but turning red. Instead of distinguishing an event with an appropriate adjective, everything is ‘cool’ – to the point that the word has no meaning. And children are, of course, just ‘kids’.
Young goats… Unfortunately, the term applies in many cases. Many children prance around, careen and react spontaneously to every stimulus or feeling like mountain goats, instead of well-disciplined boys and girls. Perhaps there is a lesson in the tendencies to be learned here: If you anticipate your children acting like young goats, call them kids. If you want your offspring to behave with decorum and Catholic manners, please call them children.
MORALITY OF GETTING TATTOOS
As our world sinks further into neo-paganism, it is tragic but foreseeable, as one Catholic writer explains, many people nowadays are adopting the styles and fads of barbarians.
Tattooing was (and is) widespread among barbarians and pagans.
One can read accounts of the many parts of the world where tattooing was practiced among the pagans and savages. See, also, for example, the tattooing among these pagans:
Regarding the pagan Huron tribe: “They practiced tattooing, sometimes covering the whole body with indelible devices.” (The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century)
Let us examine twelve reasons why getting tattoos is sinful.
- WISE AND VIRTUOUS MEN EXPLAIN HOW TATTOOS ARE SINFUL
Even without the aid of Catholic revelation, reason tells us we should be guided by old and wise men. Thus, the great philosopher Aristotle declares:
“We ought to attend to the undemonstrated sayings and opinions of experienced and older people or of people of practical wisdom not less than to demonstrations; for, their experience is, as it were, an eye by which they see rightly.”
The greatest Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, confirms Aristotle’s teaching, in these words:
“Prudence is perfected through experience and age and so we should pay attention to the thoughts of old and wise men on matters of conduct, as much as if we have a proof for their position.”
Thus, we should follow their lead even if they lack a full explanation for their moral insights.
Such men do not get tattoos themselves and do not approve of other persons getting tattoos. This shows tattooing is a sin. We should listen to old and wise men and should avoid tattoos. - CHRISTENDOM PROHIBITS TATTOOS
We see tattoos are sinful because Christendom prohibited them. The founders of Christendom, Catholic missionaries, show us that tattooing is evil, by ending this vice among their converts.
Among many examples, Smithsonian Magazine made this comment about the pagan savages of New Zealand: “Maori women were tattooed on their faces, the markings tended to be concentrated around the nose and lips. … Christian missionaries tried to stop the procedure”.
A history of tattooing stated: “Christian missionaries from the west attempted to purge tattooing among the Samoans”.
Catholic rulers traditionally forbade tattooing (when and where Catholicism had influence).
One encyclopedia stated: “After the advent of Christianity [i.e., Catholicism], tattooing was forbidden in Europe.” (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
One history account explained that, in the Roman Empire after the conversion of the Emperor Constantine: with “the emergence of Christianity, … tattoos were felt to ‘disfigure that made in God’s image’ [viz., man] and so were banned by the Emperor Constantine (A.D. 306-373).”
These rulers understood that they were fulfilling their duty to guard the morals of their people and make their people virtuous.
As St. Thomas Aquinas explains, “it belongs … [to] the function of the ruler to provide the good life for the many, in terms of what will obtain for them the beatitude of heaven”.
If we were in a truly Catholic society, tattooing would be illegal. We should not do now while living among the godless, what we would not do in a truly Catholic society. - ST. BASIL CONDEMNED TATTOOS
St. Basil the Great, a Doctor and Father of the Catholic Church, condemns tattoos and warns Catholics:
“No man shall let his hair grow long or tattoo himself as do the heathen, those apostles of Satan who make themselves despicable by indulging in lewd and lascivious thoughts. Do not associate with those who mark themselves with thorns and needles so that their blood flows to the earth. Guard yourselves against all unchaste persons, so that it cannot be said of you that in your hearts you lie with harlots.” - TATTOOS ARE AGAINST THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT
If one of our limbs is gangrenous, we amputate it to save our life and the rest of our body. However, except in this type of situation, mutilation is a sin condemned both by right reason and also by the Catholic Church.
Pope Pius XI condemned sterilization because it was an instance of the more general sin of mutilation of our bodies. Here are his words in his ‘Encyclical on Christian Marriage’:
“Christian doctrine establishes, and the light of human reason makes it most clear, that private individuals have no other power over the members of their bodies than that which pertains to their natural ends; and they are not free to destroy or mutilate their members, or in any other way render themselves unfit for their natural functions, except when no other provision can be made for the good of the whole body.”
A tattoo is not obtained to save one’s life or prevent greater harm to his person. It is permanent or semi-permanent discoloration of the skin and thus, is a mutilation and is sinful.
Catholics know that our bodies belong to God. (see I Corinthians 6:19-20) As Pope Pius XI explains, man has no right to voluntarily mutilate his members.
Pope Pius XI taught this in the context of voluntary sterilization, but he invokes the more general prohibition against voluntary mutilation. Just as it is sinful to take our own life, it is sinful to voluntarily mutilate ourselves. - TATTOOS HARM OUR PERFECTION
God made man to be without sin and to be perfect in soul and body; tattoos are sins because they harm that perfection.
God made all creation in the best way for creation to be. There are no flaws in creation as God made it and it cannot be improved. He made creation “very good”. (Genesis 1:31)
God made man to be without sin and to be perfect in soul and body. He made man to have flawless skin and made man to lack nothing he should have.
St. Augustine praised the way God made the perfect beauty of the human body. Here are his words:
“In the human body, if we praise the eyes alone, if the nose alone, if the cheeks alone, or the head alone, or the hand alone, or the feet alone, and the rest, if we praise them as beautiful singly and alone, how much more the beauty of the whole body, to which all these members, which singly are beautiful, unites beauty in one whole!”
Pope Pius XII declared that “the human body is God’s masterpiece in the visible world” in his Address to the Latin Union of High Fashion, November 8, 1957.
This is why Catholics and Catholic rulers put an end to tattooing because it disfigured man as God made him. For example, as stated in Smithsonian Magazine: With “the emergence of Christianity, … tattoos were felt to ‘disfigure that made in God’s image’ [viz., man] and so were banned by the Emperor Constantine (A.D. 306-373).”
Man ruined himself through original sin. God intended man to be without original sin and without any flaws in his skin or anywhere else. At the Resurrection of the Body, the saints will all have glorified bodies free from all defects and blemishes, except those glorious scars which show what we suffered for Christ, e.g., during martyrdom (and these scars will be beautified).
During this life, man has defects in his body because of original sin. It is sometimes not a sin to take reasonable steps to cover up/conceal defects caused by original sin, in order to restore our appearance closer to the perfect way we would have appeared without original sin. For example, a young woman with a very visible, hairy mole on her face, might be entitled to take reasonable measures to conceal the defect and restore her face more to how it would have looked without original sin, by removing the hair on the mole, and by applying a cosmetic to blend the color of the mole with the color of the rest of her face.
When someone hides an imperfection of his body, this is an attempt to conceal an effect of original sin and make his appearance more like the way God originally intended humans to look, viz., the way God created man (without defects) before original sin.
This is different than a tattoo, which alters the appearance of the body not to cover up a blemish, but to make man different than what God intended. Such tattoos are blasphemous and prideful because they intend to “improve upon” and to “perfect” the perfect work of God. This is a sin. - TATTOOS GO AGAINST GOD’S RIGHTS OVER OUR BODIES
Our bodies belong to God, and tattoos are sins against God’s rights over our bodies.
Our bodies are not our own. They belong to God and are temples of the Holy Ghost. We may not do whatever we want with them. We are admonished not to defile them. As St. Paul declared:
“Know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own? For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.” (I Corinthians 6:19-20)
When we are given custody of someone else’s property, we must preserve it as best we can in its original condition. Thus, if our neighbor entrusts his house to us while he is on a journey, it would be unjust (and a sin) to paint his house a different color or even paint on it a replica of a Michelangelo masterpiece, because the house does not belong to us.
Your body is God’s property and a tattoo vandalizes His property with graffiti. It is unjust (and is a sin) for you to tattoo your body, which belongs to God, no matter how beautiful you think the tattoo is. There is no beauty-and-tastefulness exception to justice, which would allow you to paint your neighbor’s house or tattoo your skin with anything, even a reproduction of a “beautiful Michelangelo masterpiece”. - TATTOOS ARE SINS OF VANITY AND IMMODESTY.
Tattoos are sins of vanity and against the virtue of modesty (regardless of where they are on the body).
A tattoo can be against the 6th and 9th Commandments when it contains words, symbols or pictures which are contrary to purity.
A tattoo can be against the 6th and 9th Commandments when it is located on part of your body which should not be seen (even by the tattoo shop personnel).
But modesty is more than properly covering one’s body and even without those sorts of impurity, tattoos are immodest. Modesty is a virtue requiring moderation in how we look, act and display ourselves.
Here is how St. Thomas Aquinas explained this truth in the Summa Theologica:
“Modesty, which is reckoned a part of temperance, moderates man’s outward life – for instance, in his deportment, dress or the like.”
This is why St. Paul instructed Christians: “Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.” (Philippians 4:5)
The purpose of modesty is to avoid drawing undue attention to oneself. Tattoos are inherently attempts to get undue attention by permanently discoloring our skin to get attention we would not receive if we looked more like God created man to look. Thus, all tattoos are sins against modesty. - TATTOOS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY
One sign that tattoos are sinful is that society accepted them only as part of a broader acceptance of evil beginning in the 1960s.
A further sign that tattoos are evil, is that they were accepted only by Western society’s decadent freaks and fringe groups until about the 1960s. But in the post-Christian Western World of the 1960s, tattoos began to be popular and “acceptable” along with decadence in many other forms, including hippy promiscuity, drug use, and rock music.
Before then, society considered tattoos to be “unsavory”.
Tattoos were part of the “1960s counterculture” which corrupted society.
As one history of tattoos explained, tattoos became “more socially acceptable, less stigmatized, and popularized” by “the countercultural and anti-war movements of the 1960s, [and] also by the self-help and New Age movements of the 1970s and 1980s.”
Because tattoos only became “acceptable” when society became more wicked, this shows that tattoos are evil and are a sin. - TATTOOS ARE HEALTH HAZARDS
Tattoos are sinful because they are needless, long-term health hazards.
There are no U.S. FDA-approved tattoo inks.
See, for example, this Washington Post news report concerning a woman whose tattoo caused her to first develop the symptoms of lymphoma (a cancer of the lymphatic system) fifteen years after receiving the tattoo.
Sometimes, tattoo inks contain pigments used in printer toner or car paint. Sometimes, tattoo inks are contaminated with bacteria or mold. The FDA states that there is no sure way of knowing if tattoo inks will cause infection or disease.
Tattoos can cause cancer-type symptoms even beginning many years afterwards. Infections can first arise many years after receiving a tattoo and cause problems which require surgery.
It is a sin against the Fifth Commandment for a person to expose himself unnecessarily to infection and disease. Thus, tattoos are also sinful for this reason. - PEOPLE COMMONLY REGRET DOING SO
It is unreasonable and sinful to get a tattoo because people commonly regret doing so.
A tattoo is appropriately called a permanent souvenir of a passing whim. About one-third of people regret the tattoo they have obtained.
Of course, everyone who gets a tattoo thinks he will be among those who do not regret it. But one out of three of these people are wrong and do regret it.
Tattoos can only be imperfectly removed. The removal process can cause permanent scars.
Removal of a tattoo is painful, time consuming and costs about ten to twenty times more than the cost of obtaining the tattoo.
It is unreasonable for a person to do something on a whim, which has lasting consequences, when there is such a high chance he will regret it later. It is a sin to act unreasonably.
St. Thomas Aquinas explains this truth as follows:
“Now in human actions, good and evil are predicated in reference to the reason; because as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv), ‘the good of man is to be in accordance with reason,’ and evil is ‘to be against reason.’” — and thus obtaining a tattoo is a sin. - TATTOOS IMITATE BARBARIAN BEHAVIOR
Tattoos are sinful because they are against our duty to look and act different from the barbarians around us. Tattoos, piercing, and such things are pagan and there is now a new rise of paganism bringing a corresponding rise in tattoos, piercings, etc.
Any Catholic is on the wrong path if people cannot tell he is a Traditional Catholic by how he looks and acts. His appearance and actions must tell barbarians that he is not “one of them”. We must be a sign of contradiction to the world and this must be evident in the way we look and act.
For this reason, God forbade the Israelites to be like the neighboring pagan tribes – including God forbidding their getting tattoos:
“You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.” (Leviticus 19:28)
As quoted above, St. Basil the Great commanded that we should not look like the barbarians around us. He teaches us not only to avoid all tattoos, but also all piercing and that men should not grow their hair long:
“No man shall let his hair grow long or tattoo himself as do the heathen, those apostles of Satan who make themselves despicable by indulging in lewd and lascivious thoughts. Do not associate with those who mark themselves with thorns and needles so that their blood flows to the earth. Guard yourselves against all unchaste persons, so that it cannot be said of you that in your hearts you lie with harlots.”
When we do not look like the barbarians around us, it helps us to avoid acting like them. It reminds us that we do not ‘fit in’. Tattoos are against this Catholic duty and are sinful.
One might make the superficial objection that in order to look different from the barbarians around us, we should obtain “Catholic” tattoos, such as a cross or picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, it is un-Catholic (and is a sin) to use a pagan method to profess the Catholic Faith. A Catholic may profess his Faith by wearing a religious medal, crucifix or other Catholic emblem. - TATTOOS ARE NOT CHRIST-LIKE
Tattoos are sinful because they are not Christ-like or Mary-like. We should imitate the saints because they are mirrors of Christ and His mother. Saints would not get tattoos.
We should always live in the presence of Our Lord and His Blessed Mother. We would be embarrassed to have them see us obtaining or displaying a tattoo.
We should live our life for Christ. Obtaining a tattoo is contrary to that spirit of detachment and to a Christ-centered life.
All voluntary human acts (i.e., all things we make a decision to do) are either a sin or a virtuous deed.
Obviously, obtaining a tattoo is not a virtuous deed. Therefore, it is a sin.
We should always act in the way that at our Judgment we would want to have acted. At our Judgment we will not want to have obtained a tattoo. Therefore, we should not obtain one.
Be displaying a tattoo, we are not a good representative of the True Catholic Religion.
WHAT SHOULD ONE DO IF HE HAS TATTOOS AND IS REPENTANT?
If a man stamps on a crucifix or spends a night in drunken carousing and then posts pictures of the sinful conduct on Facebook, even after he confesses the sinful actions the social media posts are a continual scandal, i.e., bad example. It is his duty to remove those pictures which might otherwise lead others to imitate him.
Likewise, even after a man confesses obtaining a tattoo, he must do what he can to conceal the tattoo ever afterwards, so that he does not lead others to follow his sinful example.
Both those who have tattoos and those who do not, are more likely to consider tattoos acceptable if they see others have them and display them. By considering tattoos more acceptable, people are more likely to themselves obtain a tattoo (or an additional tattoo).
Therefore, since tattoos are sinful, a person with a tattoo has a continual obligation to take all reasonable steps to conceal the tattoo so as not to give scandal by bad example:
Among people he knows, a person must conceal the tattoo so that he does not lead them to think tattoos are acceptable to reasonable men and to Catholics;
Among members of the general public, he must conceal the tattoo to avoid contributing to the impression of the public at large that tattoos are “normal” and good;
Especially among weak-minded and impressionable people, he must conceal the tattoo because such people are prone to follow fads; and
Even among those who themselves have tattoos, he must conceal the tattoo to avoid confirming them in their own bad conduct.
Sin does not cease to be sin because everyone is doing it.
One might make the superficial objection that tattoos are no longer a scandal because “everyone has them”. But sin does not cease to be sin because it becomes common.
Society can deteriorate and people can become accustomed to sins. But those sins still offend God. When a person (or society generally) “sees nothing wrong with” sin, this condemns him (or society) but does not make sin cease to be sin. To “see nothing wrong with” a sin merely shows that a man’s conscience is callous and he has become spiritually blind.
Concerning the idea that sin ceases to be sin when everyone is “used to it”, Pope Pius XII called this the most insidious of sophisms in his ‘Address to the Latin Union of High Fashion’, November 8, 1957. Here are his words (in the context of people falsely “justifying” immodesty using this excuse):
“The most insidious of sophisms, which are usually repeated to justify immodesty, seems to be the same everywhere. One of these resurrects the ancient saying “let there be no argument about things we are accustomed to”, in order to brand as old fashioned the rebellion of honest people against fashions which are too bold…”
Therefore, a person has the permanent duty to take reasonable steps to conceal (if it is not practically removable) any tattoo he has.
Ave Maria!
Father Joseph Poisson
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