08 April 2011

Coffee Bowl Browsing

The Associated Press suddenly remembers that they are actually the media arm of B.O.'s re-election campaign and scrubs offendive presidential quote from all their on-line stories

Seminarians air some "dirty laundry" about Ireland's national seminary, Maynooth.  NB.  this is just one side of the story.

The sad state of Spain. . .under an anti-Christian leftist gov't the Church struggles to teach the faith.

Fascinating discussion about why the Catholic laity seem reluctant to evangelize.  My favorite excuse so far, "It's the priests' fault!"  Oh yea???  Get a blog.

Dominican friar sets up shop in the mall. . .this sounds like a great idea!

Neo-pagan Witch to Roman Catholic parishioner.  Sounds strangely familiar.

Here's a 2012 campaign poster that might actually tell the truth. . .hehehehe.

Annulments or "declarations of nullity" are NOT Catholic divorces.  In just the few months I've been working in a parish, I've seen several couples come back to the Church after annulments. 

U.K. atheist and scientist wins prestigious Templeton Prize.  Professionally Aggrieved Professional Atheists freak out.  Sounds like someone I'd like to be friends with.  I mean, if Richard Dawkins doesn't like you, you must be a great guy.

A difficult question to answer:  "Students often want to know which orders are 'faithful to the Magisterium' -- meaning the Vatican and core Catholic doctrines -- and which are not."  Within any given religious Order or congregation there are provinces/monasteries that may or may not follow the ethos of the larger body.  Difference among Dominican provinces can be pronounced.  You have to do your homework!

Just 6 pages of BOCare = 429 pages of regulation.  At that rate, BOCare will get us about 150,000 pages of regulation!  How many bureaucrats will each page require?  Too many.



Giving a whole new meaning to phrase "a loafing dog."

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3 comments:

  1. There's even more that AP scrubbed from the "gas-guzzler" story.

    The transcript, reported by PowerLine blog, includes the information that Obama asked the guy 'how big a family' he had to drive. The guy said he had 10 kids (bless him!!) and Obama tittered, then said he should get a hybrid van.

    Trust me on this: there is NO "hybrid van" which transports 12, nor 10, nor 9. Maybe 8, more likely 7.

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  2. Anonymous2:44 AM

    You're surprising me. We all know perfectly well which Orders/Congregations follow the Magisterium today; which allow the young to do so even if they are disinclined toward doing so themselves; and which are the stated enemy of orthodoxy. And you know it, so why pretend we don't know this information? Help those youngsters out who are asking and tell them what's what. Also, the report by the Maynooth seminarians is absolutely accurate for many, many seminaries today, especially European ones and American Religious Community seminaries (or whatever they call them). The battle lines have moved closer, don't start bailing out on us now! More importantly, why are you backstepping now about an issue like this? You're usually one of our most forthright ambassadors.

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  3. Anonymous2:44 AM

    You're surprising me. We all know perfectly well which Orders/Congregations follow the Magisterium today; which allow the young to do so even if they are disinclined toward doing so themselves; and which are the stated enemy of orthodoxy. And you know it, so why pretend we don't know this information? Help those youngsters out who are asking and tell them what's what. Also, the report by the Maynooth seminarians is absolutely accurate for many, many seminaries today, especially European ones and American Religious Community seminaries (or whatever they call them). The battle lines have moved closer, don't start bailing out on us now! More importantly, why are you backstepping now about an issue like this? You're usually one of our most forthright ambassadors.

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