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Some movie quotes
"I’ll be back"
"Go ahead. Make my day."
"I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."
"Get away from her you BITCH!"
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
Behold! His mighty hand!"
"You can’t handle the truth!"
"May the force be with you."
"I love you guys."
"It’s not my fault!"
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
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"Frankly Scarlet, I don’t give a damn."
"Houston, we have a problem."
"I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse."
"’"E.T. phone home."
"Here’s looking at you, kid."
"Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me."
"The name’s Bond, James Bond"
"Are you talking to me?"
“Well. nobody’s perfect.”
“This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
“I am your father.”
[Good one!]
“People come and go so quickly here.”
“Nevertheless, it is not for the supremacy that you have sought my blood, but because I would not bend to the marriage!”
Comment by Antiquarian — 6 August 2008 @ 11:40 pmDear Lord, Father, you could shut down the blog with a post like this.
My head already exploded and obscured my monitor with splattered brains just thinking of all the possible quotes to post.
“Well, finally, it isn’t a matter of reason. Finally, it’s a matter of love.”
Comment by Thomas — 6 August 2008 @ 11:43 pmHaha!
Antiquarian, great minds think alike.
Greatest. Movie. Ever.
And I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Comment by Thomas — 6 August 2008 @ 11:45 pm“I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.”
Comment by Ed Rooney — 6 August 2008 @ 11:46 pmThomas: Father, you could shut down the blog with a post like this.
I am thinking of shutting it down anyway. It may have run its course.
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 6 August 2008 @ 11:53 pmFr Z: Will you be posting the answers? I confess I can’t quite get them all! :-)
I’m afraid I can’t think of any of my own… :-(
Comment by Geoffrey — 7 August 2008 @ 12:16 am“I drank your milkshake
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“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
All if my other favs are here already.
Fr. Z said: “I am thinking of shutting it down anyway. It may have run its course.”
Comment by Phillip — 7 August 2008 @ 12:17 am:(
Fr. Z. – I am thinking of shutting it down anyway. It may have run its course.
It would be a great loss…you have edified us with your knowledge and wisdom (in a highly accessible medium too). I hope the blog sticks around for a while.
“I can’t believe he’s gone.”
DK
Comment by Daniel Kirkland — 7 August 2008 @ 12:26 amFather, I am offended by your quote referring to the “Bitch”.
Comment by Lay Catholic — 7 August 2008 @ 12:33 am[Wow. You need some context!]
That isn’t appropriate for priests and men of God. Remember the opening quote of John XXIII’s journal: “Frivolous words in the mouths of men are frivolous words, in the mouths of priests they are blasphemies.”
Don’t forget these quotes from one of the greatest movies of the 1980’s:
“Inconceivable”
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
“No more rhyming now, I mean it.”
Comment by Fr. Cory Sticha — 7 August 2008 @ 12:45 am“Anybody want a peanut?”
“What family doesn’t have its ups and downs?” Eleanor of Aquitaine
“In a world where carpenters get resurrected, anything is possible.” Eleanor of Aquitaine
“What shall we hang first? The holly, or each other?” Henry II
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“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” Margo Channing
“Is it possible, even conceivable, that you’ve confused me with that gang of backwards children you play tricks on? I’m nobody’s fool, least of all yours.” Addison DeWitt
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“I’m still big. It’s the pictures that got small.” Norma Desmond
“Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.” Norma Desmond
Comment by Lubeltri — 7 August 2008 @ 12:46 am“This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.”
“You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you could’ve picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.”
Comment by Jason — 7 August 2008 @ 12:51 amYeah, how come you can get away with that kind of language and I can’t? :-)
Comment by Atlanta — 7 August 2008 @ 12:52 am“What shall we hang first? The holly, or each other?” Good one!
To Lay Catholic: Relax! Get out your dictionary. Bitch is an acceptable word. And don’t go around judging what is acceptable for different people or not.
I needed some levity this evening, and thank Fr. Z for this post!
Comment by Geoffrey — 7 August 2008 @ 1:06 amLots of good lines from “The Lion in Winter”.
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 7 August 2008 @ 1:21 amI see all the good Casablanca quotes have been included already. Excellent.
Father, your blog is a source of inspiration for many; I’m definately appreciating my Catholic heritage more, and you make one ask oneself hard questions at times. If you can, please keep up the good work.
Praying for you.
Comment by Phil — 7 August 2008 @ 1:24 amAll: “I am thinking of shutting it down anyway. It may have run its course.”
Not kidding,folks. All good things need a clean end.
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 7 August 2008 @ 1:25 am“I am thinking of shutting it down anyway. It may have run its course.” Quote from Fr. Zulsdorf.
Father, the beginning may have run it’s course but there is much more to come e.g. the new translations in the Novus Ordo and, of course Summorum Pontificum II. The recovery of the sacred is not a done deal yet!
Comment by David O'Rourke — 7 August 2008 @ 1:29 am“Friends come in and out of our lives like busboys in a restaurant.”
Comment by pdt — 7 August 2008 @ 1:33 amKids: This may be over. The blog was based on translation of prayers. That is being resolved.
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 7 August 2008 @ 1:35 am“Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”
“That’s no moon. It’s a space station.”
“When 900 years old, you reach, look as good, you will not.”
“I have a bad feeling about this.”
[Excellent!]
“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
Comment by Geoffrey — 7 August 2008 @ 1:46 am“But Father, but Father”—your blog is not merely a “good thing” it has become a truly valuable Catholic forum for thought-provoking and inspirational exchanges about our faith. Adult education that’s more than training for conducting confirmation classes or some “ministry” or other is nowhere to be found in the archdiocese where I live. For folks like me your blog is like a drink of fresh water in the desert and, I daresay this sentiment is shared by many, many others. Although I am most sympathetic to your wish to lay down what may have become a burdensome task, you are the 21st century equivalent of someone like the apostle Paul or St. Dominic. The internet is the 21st century’s version of the world where those saints wandered until called home by the Lord.
By all means take a break if you need one, but please consider the needs of your web-based flock and don’t abandon us altogether.
Comment by rcesq — 7 August 2008 @ 1:49 am[Everything needs a purpose. This blog must develop or die.]
Father,
Comment by Bruce — 7 August 2008 @ 1:52 amI think the quote is actually, “Frankly MY DEAR, I don’t give a damn!”
[Imagine my response.]
Well, as long as you don’t call me dear. Thanks for the fun.
Comment by Bruce — 7 August 2008 @ 2:02 amBruce: That sums it up.
Comment by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf — 7 August 2008 @ 2:04 amGood job on omitting the popular but incorrect “just” from the Gone With the Wind quote (Usually recited incorrectly as “I just don’t give a damn”).
Comment by Michael Hallman — 7 August 2008 @ 2:15 amOh yeah, I focused on the “just” and didn’t realize you got the “my dear” part wrong :-)
Comment by Michael Hallman — 7 August 2008 @ 2:16 amAll right, someone beat me to Princess Bride Quotes, so all I’ve got at this late hour is:
“There can be only one.”
Maria S.
Comment by rosebudsal — 7 August 2008 @ 2:27 amFather,
Comment by Anna — 7 August 2008 @ 2:54 amIf you close down this blog, could you re-open the “Ask Father” website? It was really helpful.
Thank you.
Anna
“There’s no place like home.” – Judy Garland in “Wizard of Oz” [How could I have forgotten?]
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” – Anthony Hopkins in “Silence of the Lambs”
“Round up the usual suspects.” – Claude Rains in Casablanca
“I see dead people.” – Haley Joel Osment in “The Sixth Sense”
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” – Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – Al Pachino in “Godfather II”
“Toga! Toga!” – John Belushi in “Animal House”
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” – Wicked Witch of the East in “Wizard of Oz”
“We rob banks.” – Warren Beatty in “Bonnie and Clyde”
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” – Roy Scheider in “Jaws”
“I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody” – Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront”
One of the most famous:
Comment by John Enright — 7 August 2008 @ 3:38 am“Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” – Mae West
Dear Father,
Comment by Michael of Ware — 7 August 2008 @ 3:49 amDon’t even think of shutting down your blog, unless there are health or personal reasons we don’t know about.
Why? Let’s take just one example. What you call (very modestly) a post entitltled “Transfigurative ramblings”. As a “wannabe” Latinist of your quality (and I’m working hard on it, I can assure you)this post was invaluable. But not just for that. The point is that there was food in it for all of us to bring to our meditation on this great Feast – real spiritual food.
Your’e doing a great job and that job isn’t even half-done yet!
When I attend the TLM Mass locally next Sunday, I’ll offer up my Holy Communion for you. Be of good heart. All will be well
Michael of Ware
“Why spoil a beautiful thing with legality?” – Brian Keith as TR in THE WIND AND THE LION
“You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?” Nicholson as Joker in BATMAN
“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” – O’Toole as HII in BECKET
and, more antiphona
“...you lifted your finger, pointed at me and said, ‘Thomas Becket, you are noble.’”
And, really, the whole blessed script of the ‘64 version with Burton as Becket.
Comment by Chris Altieri — 7 August 2008 @ 3:56 amI forgot one of my favorites: “We’re on a mission from God” – Dan Aykroyd in “The Blues Brothers”
Comment by John Enright — 7 August 2008 @ 4:03 am“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.” (Goldfinger)
“Art Deco, very nice.” (Ghostbusters)
“Don’t drive angry. Do not drive angry.” (Groundhog Day)
“Excuse me, stewardess, I talk jive.” (Airplane!)
(Star Trek II: The Wrath of) “KHAAAAAAAAN!”
“Open the pod bay door, HAL.” “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” (2001: A Space Odyssey)
“What did you DO, Ray?!?” (Ghostbusters)
And my all time favorite Star Wars quote:
Comment by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 7 August 2008 @ 4:28 am“...but I was going in to Toschi Station to pick up some power converters!”
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUF?!
Comment by Kradcliffe — 7 August 2008 @ 4:29 am“Snakes. Why did it have to be…snakes?”
“Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.” (RotLA)
“There’ll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate, except those in your own mercenary little heart.” (QM)
Comment by Ioannes Andreades — 7 August 2008 @ 4:52 am“I mean, say what you want about the tenants of National Socialism, but at least it’s an ethos.”
Comment by Mr. WAC — 7 August 2008 @ 4:55 amI had pretty much given up posting on this site, but this thread has drawn me back in.
Now, regarding shutting down the blog, I have two observations. Firstly traditionalist blogs are like raindrops in autumn: They are nor exactly rare! I am sure if it comes to it, you people will be able to find what you are looking for elsewhere.
Secondly, the more time I spend on line (running a semi-large Catholic website and contributing to more than a few) the more I am becoming convinced that websites can never replace face-to-face ministry, and the more I am becoming convinced that they are often frequented by people with agendas and people who have an axe to grind. wdtprs has some good content and some good people writing comments, but it has it’s fair share of others who balance them out too!
Now, some of Jack’s favourite movie quotes:
“I take it the odds are against us and the situation is grim… sounds like fun” [Kirk, Star Trek Generations]
“You who would kill 100,000 Iraqis to save a dime on a tank of gas, would dare to lecture me about the rules of war??” [Air Force One]
“Hoorah!” [Scent of a Woman]
“Get busy living, or get busy dying” [The Shawshank Redemption]
“There’s always time for lubricant” [Evolution]
“Bring the Noise” [Hot Fuzz]
“I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.” [Zoolander] (a sentiment I share myself)
“I want your cloths, your boots, and your motorcycle” [You have to ask?]
“If it bleeds, we can kill it” [Predator]
“England is under threat of invasion, and though we be on the far side of the world, this ship is our home. This ship is England.” [Master and Commander]
..and finally, a few from Amazing Grace..
“Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly. I’m a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”
Pitt the Younger: As your Prime Minister, I urge you caution
Comment by Jack Regan — 7 August 2008 @ 5:07 amWilliam Wilberforce: And as my friend?
Pitt the Younger: To hell with caution.
I would miss the sermon podcasts. We need them.
Comment by Limbo — 7 August 2008 @ 5:13 amLeave the gun. Take the cannoli. [Good one.]
Comment by Tim Ferguson — 7 August 2008 @ 5:15 amoh, and…
“But it’s Aristotle
!!”
Comment by Tim Ferguson — 7 August 2008 @ 5:16 amI find your lack of faith disturbing
Comment by Tom — 7 August 2008 @ 5:26 am“Yondda lies the castle of my Fadda” Tony Curtis, The black shield of Falworth.
“I always say, my east window has all the exuberance of Chaucer with none of the concomitant crudities of his age” Alec Guinness as the aged vicar in Kind hearts and Coronets
And Fr Z if you do the unthinkable
“here’s looking at you kid”
Comment by Tecumseh — 7 August 2008 @ 5:28 am“I was sitting here thinking of the final words of Socrates…’I drank what?’”—Real Genius
Comment by Adonis33 — 7 August 2008 @ 5:33 amFrom my favorite movie:
“I’m not Mr. Lebowski, I’m the dude, man.”
“You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish.”
“Nihilists
? I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”
“No, without a hostage, there is no ransom. That’s what ransom is. Those are the rules.”
“Man, could you change the channel? Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the Eagles, man!”
“Darkness warshed over the Dude – darker’n a black steer’s tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.”
“Also, let’s not forget – let’s not forget, Dude – that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city – that aint legal either.”
Comment by Sean — 7 August 2008 @ 5:35 am“I must go now Clarice, I’m having an old friend for dinner.” [Silence of the Lambs]
“Keep the website going Father” [to be included in future biopic of Fr Z]
Comment by Dominic — 7 August 2008 @ 5:39 amFather Z,
This is THE most important blog in the Catholic blogosphere.
You are appreciated and very much needed to encourage the rest of us!
Comment by David in Toronto — 7 August 2008 @ 5:45 amYou taking off Fr.?
Whats/where the new job?
Anyway, movie quotes –
” What is your name, 41?” (Ben-Hur)
“Ecce Homo” (POTC)
“Up down and around…like a circle” (Happy Gilmore)
“Lets have a beer, hey?” (the nugget)
Comment by Corboy — 7 August 2008 @ 5:47 am“Nobody expects him be normal; he’s a bishop.”
and
R: I don’t believe in it anyway.
G: What?
R: England.
G: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
(from The Bishop’s Wife and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, respectively)
Comment by David Cheney — 7 August 2008 @ 5:49 am“I’m here Huckleberry”
Comment by Sacristy_rat — 7 August 2008 @ 5:50 amFather, please don’t shut down your blog- I found it while searching for something else, and remembering your weekly Wanderer column, came back for more, several times a day. If you need to limit your time on it for face to face ministry, let that be our cross to carry for you. Let us help you keep this wonderful place of insight and refuge going. I have learned so much about the Faith (and I am a cradle Catholic- shame on me)and your work has given much hope.
if you do close this down, go in peace, and thank you for this treasured gift
Comment by Agnes B. Bullock — 7 August 2008 @ 5:56 amMarvelous. Simply, Marvelous.
Comment by Faith — 7 August 2008 @ 6:04 amBilly Crystal
But Father, but Father….
You can’t take away this happy place where we learn so much.
Please don’t do it.
Oh and how about
Comment by Jim — 7 August 2008 @ 6:15 am‘This is the story of a ship…’
Quit? I’m afraid not, Father. It would be like Rush Limbaugh waking up tomorrow and deciding to quit. There is no other hill on which to rally, and no other captain to rally us.
An appropriate movie quote?
“Moses, stand on the rock, where the people can see you and have hope!”
Comment by Jon — 7 August 2008 @ 6:22 amLeiah: “I love you.”
Han Solo: “I know.” (My favorite response to my wife, though the reciprocity is understood)
“Bob, this town needs an enema.” The Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman
“Do the chickens have large talons?” Napoleon Dynamite
Father, do you really think the proper translation and understanding of liturgical texts has been rectified? Even if the words are now correct, what the prayer says must also take into account the proper meaning of the text. This will be a perpetual endeavor until the parousia.
Comment by John H. — 7 August 2008 @ 6:22 amSurely you don’t mean that!
I do, and don’t call me Shirley!
Comment by Forrest — 7 August 2008 @ 6:30 am“You’ll get plenty of celery down at Mount Mellary” Freddie the alcoholic being encouraged to visit a Trappist monastery by way of getting sober. From The Dead, the last film of John Huston.
Comment by Tecumseh — 7 August 2008 @ 6:32 am“We ain’t got time for no hushpuppies!”
Comment by Clem — 7 August 2008 @ 6:34 am“Ooof…you sound much taller on the radio”
“You can be from my loins”
“When I get home, I’m gonna punch yo momma in the mouth!”
—Sheriff Buford T Justice
Smokey and the Bandit
“I was lost, when your honour found me” A Dublin cab driver trying to come to terms with getting from A to B. From John Huston’s The Dead.
Comment by Tecumseh — 7 August 2008 @ 6:37 amFrom the Third Man
Harry Lime: Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
Comment by Tecumseh — 7 August 2008 @ 6:42 am“Say it ain’t so, Joe. Say it ain’t so.”
Then again, it ill befits your readers to be jealous of your limited time and energy, particularly if it seems to you that the blog has run its course.
“Thanks for the memories.”
Comment by Gregg the obscure — 7 August 2008 @ 6:43 amBut Father, but Father….”
Blogs reinvent themselves over time to stay “fresh” – Welborn did this last year and didn’t miss a beat.
If you do go that route, Fr. Z., I have a suggestion for a name. :)
Comment by Paul Stokell — 7 August 2008 @ 6:49 amAnd the newest classic:
“Let’s put a smile on that face.” (The Dark Knight)
Comment by Emil Berbakov — 7 August 2008 @ 6:52 amLay Catholic : I think Father’s quote is entirely valid. I think you’ll find “Get away from her you BITCH!” features in that wonderful family favourite “Lassie Come Home”.
Father Z : By all means close down this blog if you feel it has run its course : your blog, your choice! But you’d better start another one straight away because some of us are hooked and will need rehab without our daily Z.
Do you really have NO idea of how much good you do? (And I guess you might reply “Do you really have NO idea how much hard work it is?”)
Comment by Christabel — 7 August 2008 @ 6:58 am.
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[from The Great Silence
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Comment by Fr Renzo di Lorenzo (Trilogy) — 7 August 2008 @ 6:59 amYes comrade, we’ve come very far very fast… but at what price? Did you know there were children who lived off of human flesh in those days? – Yevgraf Zhivago (Alec Guiness)
Excuse me, I was out walking the parapet – Governor Petomaine (Mel Brooks)
Do you know how you got that little indent above your lip? Before you were born, I told you a secret, I put my finger there and said “Shhh…” – The Angel Gabriel (Christopher Walken- “Prophecy”)
Comment by Chironomo — 7 August 2008 @ 7:03 amWhat some Bishops need to hear, from the Shoes of the Fisherman, Anthony Quinn, when all the Hierarchy, kept arguing with him
“Am I Pope or am I not Pope.”
Comment by David Osterloh — 7 August 2008 @ 7:11 amNot fade away
! What everyone else has said about your blog. By all means change the name, but pleeeeezzzz don’t disappear. This is always my first port of call when I switch on the machine. Your work really is a ministry and you touch far more people than you know (this side of heaven).
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“Oh Jerry, let’s not ask for the moon when we have the stars” (Now Voyager)
Comment by Calleva — 7 August 2008 @ 7:20 am“Which one of these pies killed my daughter?” – The inimitable Herbert Lom in ‘the Pope must Die(t)’ (alt. UK and US titles)
“At least all her tattoos are spelled correctly” (Steel Magnolias)
“It’s hard to kill someone with whom one is not on social terms” (Kind Hearts and Coronets)
James Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?” Goldfinger: “No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!” (Goldfinger)
“We’ve come on holiday by mistake!” – Withnail and I
“We want the finest wines available to humanity and we want them here and we want them now!” (ibid)
“Shoot straight you bastards, don’t make a mess of it!”
Comment by jarhead462 — 7 August 2008 @ 7:43 amEdward Woodward (in front of the firing squad)in Breaker Morant
“Mister, if you say three, you won’t hear the man count 10.” [Excellent.]
Sean Thornton to “Red” Will Danaher in “The Quiet Man”
Comment by Michael — 7 August 2008 @ 7:48 am“What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.” (Groundhog Day)
Comment by John H. — 7 August 2008 @ 7:49 am“Oh Moses, Moses, you stubborn, spendid, adorable fool!”
Dear Father Z
Please continue blogging in some form – you don’t know what an inspiration you are!
A xx
Comment by Ann — 7 August 2008 @ 7:49 am“Like I told my last wife, I said honey I don’t drive any faster than I can see. And besides, it’s all in the reflexes.”
“Okay, you people sit tight, hold the fort, and keep the home fires burning, and if we’re not back by dawn, call the president.”
“You were not put on this earth to Get It, Mr. Burton.”
“Have you paid your dues, Jack? Yes sir, the check is in the mail.”
(All from “Big Trouble in Little China”)
Comment by David Palm — 7 August 2008 @ 7:51 amFather Z,
Maybe this blog in its present form has run its course, but you certainly can’t run out of things to blog about. A bit of organic development here might be healthy. If you want to keep the same domain name (wdtprs.com), here are some suggestions for new blog names and themes:
What Did The Pope Really Say? – Analysis of past and present papal writings
What Did They Preach Regarding Salvation? – Analysis of sermons by the Church Fathers
Who Didn’t Take Precautions Repressing Scandal? – Commentary on bishops’ handling of abuses, liturgical and otherwise
We Didn’t Totally Prepare Rational Statements – Analysis of USCCB documents
I’m sure everyone else can come up with better ideas.
Comment by Dave — 7 August 2008 @ 7:51 amWhat? not one from “O Brother Where Art Thou”
Comment by cordelia — 7 August 2008 @ 7:56 am