A while back I wrote a piece highlighting the resonance Lady
Gaga's message of radical inclusivity has with young people, and
what the church might take from that. Now, The Economist
compares the remarkable branding success of Lady Gaga and Mother
Theresa. From the post:    Well worth a read here.  Michael J.
O'Loughlin         david power | 6/9/2011 - 7:06pm     I have
given up on Monty Python.They are no match for Mr Loughlin.The
whole problem as I see it is how to integrate monsterism into
the catholic ouvre. There is a profoundness to the Gaga argument
that has most of the best theological minds in a spin.     In
his primitiveness Aquinas never grappled with making a lie the
truth.That was the speciality of Wojtyla!Where does Lady
Gaga fit into the catholic tradition??I know that Origen tried
to express an openness to the other including those who spoke
jive but it never made the grade. I myself have been subsisting
on rations of de Chardin for the past five years.     I suggest
that we need a particular