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  • 28 August 2008

    Archbp. Chaput on Fox News about Speaker Pelosi

    CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 8:34 pm

    UPDATE: We now have the video!

    Neil Cavuto of Fox News just interview the Archbishop of Denver, His Excellency Most Reverend Charles Chaput.  He spoke about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s serious errors about the beginning of human life made last Sunday on Meet The Press.  He also clarified why pro-abortion Catholics are in serious error and should not receive Holy Communion.

    Here is the audio.

    Perhaps we can hunt up the video too.

     
    icon for podpress  08-08-28 FNC Cavuto & Archbp. Chaput on Pelosi [4:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

     
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    WDTPRS Pelosi parody songs

    CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 8:27 pm

    This entry may be updated from time to time. Please check back often! o{]:¬)


    I just got a wonderful Pelosi parody song from the Official WDTPRS Songwriter, Timothy the Parodist.

    I am waiting for the final version and I’ll post it!

    UPDATE from Timothy the Parodist:

    Nancy singing I left my heart in San Francisco
     
    Planned Parenthood contributes,
    To my campaign each year,
    NARAL, NOW and Move-On:
    Agendas I hold dear,
    Though raised a faithful Catholic,
    Faith’s precepts I’ve forgotten,
    I’m standing firm,
    for abortion on demand!
     
    I sold my soul in San Francisco,
    Abortion mills? They’re fine by me!
    I stand with Biden and Kissling;
    Patristic proof-texting,
    The bishops scowl and pull their hair,
    I don’t care.
    I still believe, that I am Catholic,
    Though I put babies to the knife
    I’m glad that Burke’s not here in San Francisco,
    Or I’d be running for my life.
    More to come!  Keep checking!

    UPDATE

    To the turn "Nancy With the Laughing Face" (Where’s the Nelson Riddle Orchestra when you really need them?)
     
    She’s on TV each day now Mister,
    Bending dogmatic truth that twisted sister,
    She causes huge headaches,
    Our Nancy, with the double face
     
    She twists Augustine into a pretzel,
    Causing more scandal than Johann Tetzel
    Picture Cthulu in lace
    That’s Nancy with the double face
     
    Someone grab those bells and start ringing
    I’ve the candle and book in tow
    It’s “Lacrimosa” the monks are singing
    “Anathema sit,” you know!
     
    Archbishop, tell her “Stop! Desist!” Her
    Logic is making my cortex blister,
    She has become a disgrace,
    That Nancy, with the double face!
     
    Egan and Wuerl and Chaput all diss her,
    All of those unborn children sure wouldn’t miss her
    Believe me, they’ve got a case
    With Nancy, of the double face
    UPDATE:

    I received the following from a reader:

    Hello Fr. Z,
     
    I like to write limericks, especially when people like Nancy Pelosi give me good material to work with!

    Ode to Nancy

    Senator Nancy Pelosi,
    Has theology weak as Jello-si,
    She quotes from Augustine
    But must take a dustin’
    From those who are in the know-si.
     
    Nancy Pelosi’s the Speaker,
    But her theology is really much weaker
    Than she’d like to admit;
    It’s giving her fits,
    But it hasn’t made her much meeker.
     
    Communion’s important, she’s announcing,
    As the Church’s teaching she’s renouncing.
    She wants to receive;
    She says she believes.
    But the Bishops gave her a trouncing.
     
    We witness amazing contortion,
    Not to mention doctrinal distortion,
    When Nancy comes in
    With her version of sin,
    And her political stance on abortion.
     
    “Abortion just might not be wrong
    If the woman’s not too far along.”
    Roe v. Wade preaching
    Replaces Church teaching
    As Nancy’s political song.
     
    Abortion is wrong – she must know!
    But with her record, it sure doesn’t show.
    She’s Catholic, she said,
    But her faith must be dead.
    Nancy: you’ll reap what you sow.
     

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    The bones of St. Augustine of Hippo

    CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 4:43 pm

    Augustine died on 28 August 430.

    Sometime before the early 8th century, Augustine’s remains were translated from N. Africa to Sardinia for fear of desecration. It is possible that St. Fulgentius of Ruspe took Augustine’s body to Sardinia. Fulgentius had run afoul of the Arian Vandal overlords in N. Africa and was driven out.

    During the 8th century Augustine’s remains were in danger again, but this time by another gang of vandals called Arabs, who were swarming all over the Mediterranean as pirates and brigands.

    Sometime between 710 and 730 King Liutprand of the Lombards translated Augustine a second time and, on some 11 October, had him interred in Pavia in the church of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro.

    It is thought that Liutprand had to pay a huge ransom the bones from some muslim thug. (Hard to believe, I know.)

    Eventually, with the passage of time people simply forgot where the saints bones actually physically were in the church.

    In the passage of the years, the church itself came to be controlled by two different Augustinian groups, the Canons Regular and the Hermits. Let’s just say their relations were strained and leave it at that