What is the Met Gala? A simple enough question but, sadly, the answer is that no one truly knows (editor’s note: this is not the answer). All we can piece together from what little evidence there is available is that, each year, a bunch of millionaires are caged within thematically-coordinated costumes and forced inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. What occurs within the confines of the building, we simply cannot say.
But it’s not just big-time celebs that are invited to these mysterious events, it would seem. Rather thematically appropriate to the theme of this year’s ball, it would appear there are also priests – priests like James Martin.
Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of the magazine America, tweeted about some very interesting praise that he got as a result of attending a Catholicism-themed costume ball while in his regular, ordinary dress as a Catholic priest.
Actually said to me at the #MetGala tonight:
“I love your costume.”
“Is that, like, for real?”
“Funky outfit!”
“You’re the best dressed dude here, bro.” (High fives me.)
“You look just like the real thing.”
And, truly: “I love that you got dressed up as a sexy priest.”— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) May 8, 2018
This seems like an immensely self-serving thing to tweet but, he assures you, he is not lying:
Those are verbatim.
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) May 8, 2018
As far as I’m aware, priests aren’t allowed to lie, so this checks out (I was raised Protestant so honestly I have no idea what the rules are for Catholics, this may or may not be true).
