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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “Perhaps world events are making some nervous international travelers. Personally, I would have loved to go to Poland on a…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “The bit about Claudius thinking that a return to the republic was likely or even possible may take its inspiration…”
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- on 15 April 2019 – Notre-Dame de Paris: “I was wrong. It’s not a Cramnerian table. It’s a……. Ikea coffee table made to resemble a half Easter egg,…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “The BBC “radio play” of I,Claudius is also rather good. https://share.libbyapp.com/title/505092”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “To MB: THE BEST TIME was a long time ago before Paul VI and Bergoglio and their hand-chosen sycophants decided…”
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- on 15 April 2019 – Notre-Dame de Paris: “Looking at the pictures, one can be grateful that the artist at least didn’t use this as an opportunity to…”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “@MB “When a man feels like he has something no one else can give, something essential, and no one to…”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “There was a time when if you wanted to know the miracles of the Church, the great teachings, the stories…”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “Out of my wife and my siblings & spouses, half are not RC anymore but are probably still on the…”
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Ingrasso dolce per dolce.
Is that like brandy on fire over cherries jubilee is better than brandy on ice? But is it really?
“But most of all beware that boy!”
Wow, not only is it a platitude rather than a fortune, but it’s also wrong. I’m pretty sure underutilized knowledge is far less dangerous than overutilized ignorance.
I don’t know… there are times when a flaming idiot can be much more entertaining…
Sharper than a serpeant’s tooth
it is to have a fangless child
Ignorance on fire is more DESTRUCTIVE than knowledge on ice
“It is best never to eat anything
that is able to wink back at you”
‘For the glamorous look, choose plain-looking dining companions.’ ~ Miss Piggy
My hovercraft is full of eels.
That could be the sequel to “Snakes on a Plane.”
With a platitide like that, is it safe to eat the cookie?
It depends on the ignorance. An invincibly ignorant Catholic on fire is a lot better then a Catholic theologian that doesn’t pray or go to mass. One can at least claim ignorance to grave sin and has the possibility of being catechized, the other may be in trouble when St. Peter checks his I.D.
@Random Friar,
Your assertion would depend, I think, upon where one draws the line between entertainment and Schadenfreude, or at least on how willing one is to be entertained by a walking disaster.
After all, ignorance on fire is but one (very short) step removed from incendiary stupidity.
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer
The first thing to come into my mind:
“Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I have tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great, and would suffice.”
Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice.
Fire + Ice = Frost