Headline AP: Break-Dancers Perform for the Pope

VATICAN CITY – In an unusual spectacle at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II presided Sunday over a performance of break-dancers who leaped, flipped and spun their bodies to beats from a tinny boom box.

The 83-year-old pontiff seemed to approve, waving his hand after each dancer completed a move, then applauding for the entire group. He watched the performance from a raised throne.

“For this creative hard work I bless you from my heart,” he said….

“Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it,” John Paul said.

But this leads to the questions: Is Sabbath break-dancing Sabbath breaking? If Sabbath break-dancing is Sabbath breaking, shouldn’t Sabbath break-dancers break the Sabbath breaking break-dancing habit?