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Category Archives: You must be joking!
13 yr old 8th grader uses $2 bill – school freaks out, police called, threats and ignorance ensue
From time to time we hear about the idiocies that public schools perpetrate. Here’s another which caught my eye in the wake of controversy about changing the $10 or $20 bills. From Joe For America: SCHOOL CALLS POLICE ON GIRL … Read More
The slide continues… rock in the Sistine Chapel
We saw that the Sistine Chapel was rented out to Porsche. We had the projections of critters on the facade of the Vatican Basilica. Now we have rock music in, again, the Sistina. From Reuters: U2’S THE EDGE BECOMES FIRST … Read More
Believing in two genders is a ‘hate crime’ at (Jesuit) Loyola Marymount:
More idiocy at a Jesuit-run school. Surprised? Form The College Fix: Believing in two genders is a ‘hate crime’ under police investigation at Catholic college ‘You can have your opinion’ as long as it doesn’t ‘deny my existence’ It’s uncommon … Read More
I’ve heard of “flying bishops”, but … not this
I saw at katholisches.info via the curiously-named Eponymous Flower an … what’s the word … oddity, hopefully unique. Not my translation: The new Archbishop of Palermo, recently appointed by Pope Francis, Msgr. Corrado Lorefice, swung himself in a bicycle … Read More
Wry observations about #AmorisLaetitia (aka Familiaris divortio) to make a point
First, we have now a nickname for the new Letter. Familiaris divortio Thanks to The Great Roman™! Next, I am gobsmacked by something I heard. US radio talk show host Michael Savage has been reading – on air – … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, You must be joking!
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Familiaris divortio, Michael Savage, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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John Allen on Summorum Pontificum: “Most Catholics who wanted access to the older Mass already had it”
Over at CRUX (now perhaps Crux 2.0? – the Boston Globe ended its life support – Zombie Crux? – the KofCs support it now, which I can’t get my head around… but I digress…), editor John L. Allen made an odd statement … Read More
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ACTION ITEM! Petition Jesuits to abort big-business abortion leader Cecile Richards invitation!
From CNS comes this notice about a petition. Jesuit-run (who else) Georgetown University – which covered up the Holy Name when the pro-abortion, anti-freedom POTUS Obama visited – has invited big-business abortion tycoon Cecile Richards, CEO of abortion-industry leader Planned … Read More
Obama: Worried more about climate change than ISIS – Admin may pursue “climate change deniers”
Of course he is. Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch comments on the essay at The Atlantic on the “Obama Doctrine” by Jeffrey Goldberg. Get this… “isis is not an existential threat to the United States,” he told me in one of … Read More
The Three Days of Darkness – 2016
The Three Days of Darkness took place again this year in L.A. I was actually in L.A. at the time, but I didn’t have a chance to get down there and participate. Darn. Here is a video of a typical … Read More
Talk about “gender theory”
This is amusing via PJ Media: Time Magazine: Evelyn Waugh, Leading Woman Writer This never would have happened back in my day. David Harsanyi caught the flub: TIME magazine asks: “What do 1 million reading lists reveal about higher education today?” … Read More
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