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I will never have to endure a massively tasteless homily about the power and glory of flying, all-intrusive murderbots as a metaphor for God.I remember 9/10/01, when I lived in a different country.
Had muffins for dinner the other night. Somebody asked what kind they were. Jan replied, “Banana nut” and I was irresistibly compelled to add, “DOO DOO DIH DO DO!”Peter then said, “Banana nut?”And I replied “DOO DOO DIH DO!”Luke answered, “Banana nut.”And I erupted with: “DOO DOO DIH DO DO, DIH DO DO, DIH DO…
Latest headline for the news aggregator for Taliban Catholics:“Sainthood cause of ‘martyred’ Oscar Romero technically reached the final stage”Yeah, he wasn’t *really* martyred. Cuz he was in a Central American country defending the poor from a regime in bed with Murka, so that makes him a damn librul (as members of Opus Dei so typically are,…
A reader writes:Can you please ask your readers to pray for a friend’s mother who is going in for surgery this morning (she may even be in as I write this) in an attempt to remove cancer from her lungs. They are all faithful, so far as I know. This is her third bout with…
Orthodox Radical Ponders Putin’s DivinityOne of the things I’ve noticed about religious traditions is that, just as the tend to produce their own unique sort of saints also, when they go bad, give off their own unique smell.Protestant saints don’t look or sound like Catholic saints who don’t look or sound like Orthodox saints. Catholicism…
Pope Francis says war is senseless slaughter, can always be avoided The pope’s message was presented Sept. 7 to people taking part in the International Meeting of People and Religions, organized by the Rome-based lay Community of Sant’Egidio and hosted by the Diocese of Antwerp, Belgium.So much for “Pope calls for US to Launch Iraq…
The following is a guest post by Matthew Christoff of The New Emangelization. In the post-modern “anything goes and nothing means anything” world, men are lost, not knowing what to believe or what to do. Seduced into pursuing their own selfish passions, post-modern men are manipulated like C.S. Lewis predicted they would be: “men without chests”,…
Build a man a fire and you warm him for an hour. Set that man on fire and you warm him for the rest of his life.