I’m saving for box seats to Beatitudes Nite.
Saturday, April 19th, 2008*
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Images: (Pope) Jim Bourg (Reuters) (crowd) AP photo(?) (Wonder bread) media.linspire.com; (Mrs. Paul’s Fish Sticks) foodfacts.com;
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I love the way the media gushes over the Pope’s deigning to speak of the sex scandal. Is that not the reason he came? It is important to keep those offering baskets full for the kick upstairs to the V.
Saturday, April 19th, 2008*
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Images: ((Background police) REUTERS/Larry Downing traffic; (Pope & candles) (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert);
Behind the scenes of the Pope’s visit…
Saturday, April 19th, 2008*
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Images: (cuffs) via indiana.typepad.com; (Miami Vice) lovefilm.com; (real photo) Associated Press;
In 1960, Khrushchev oddly lacked red shoes.
Friday, April 18th, 2008*
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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Image: (shoe) via inquirer.net
Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, pezzo novante at the Vatican “Apostolic Penitentiary, announces new sins–as fresh as this morning’s headlines.
Monday, March 10th, 2008Causing environmental blight is a sin, but the Church certainly seemed to want the boy king and his more sinister compatriot in pollution for the top USA jobs.
I wonder if ‘Child Buggery by a Clergyman’ has dropped on the
Vatican’s Sin-O-Meter (sih-NAM-etter).
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Vatican lists “new sins,” including pollution
By Philip Pullella
Reuters
March 10, 2008
Thou shall not pollute […]
Sorry, Huck, but that train left the station 468 years ago…
Monday, January 7th, 2008 and the engineer was Ignatius Loyola. The Society of Jesus–Jesuits to you and Jebbies to me–was the formal name for his Soldiers of Christ (a.k.a Jesus). And–dare I say it–Ignatius wasn’t running for president in a land which has a constitutional clause against the establishment of a state religion.
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Huckabee Steps Back Into the […]
There is something odd about using an ancient, semi-secret ceremony to combat the rise of the occult.
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan
By NICK PISA
Last updated at 16:34pm on 29th December 2007
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Pope Benedict XVI during his Urbi et Orbi
This is the photograph used with the Daily Mail article.
I am not joking.
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Satanism on the rise: Pope Benedict has unveiled plans to set up specialist exorcism squads
The Pope has ordered […]
I hear he’s backed by a Louis Prima Tribute band.
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007*
(AP Photo/L’Osservatore Romano, HO)
Talk about a no-win situation!
Thursday, December 6th, 2007L.A. Cardinal Badly Beaten By Abuse Foes
(Because I was not a victim of clerical abuse, I cannot comment on the possible rage–but a 71-year-old man?)
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Cardinal Roger Mahony, 71, Was Hospitalized Following Attack Near Church Last Summer
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5, 2007
(AP) Cardinal Roger Mahony was attacked last summer by one or more people apparently angered by […]
Ersatz saints Philomena and Christopher will probably be relegated to hand crank phones.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Saints on cellphones spark controversy in Italy
By Philip Pullella 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
ROME (Reuters) - If you are a Catholic looking for a saint in heaven to protect you, you no longer have to carry a small “holy card.” You can get the image sent to your cellphone.
A company in Italy started offering the […]
Science and the Baltimore Catechism…
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007LESSON 5 — The Creation and the Fall of Man
48. What is man?
Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and made to the image and likeness of God.
{And God created man to his own image. (Genesis 2:7)}
Baltimore Catechism
I lay no claim that your god is not as legitimate as mine. Competition […]
Why wear heavy vestments in Myanmar’s heat?
Friday, October 12th, 2007*
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Prince Soe Win models one of the short-sleeved vestments which can be worn on the bus, in a bowling alley or the beach.
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Myanmar’s Prime Minister Soe Win, seen here in Cebu in January 2007, a hardliner best known for allegedly orchestrating an attack on democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has died at age […]