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Category Archives: You must be joking!
What kind of dumb is this?
This is so weird that, at first, I thought it was a joke. We find this at Protect The Pope. Dissenting on homosexuality Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP is a keynote speaker at Dublin’s 2014 Divine Mercy Conference Fr Timothy Radcliffe … Read More
Posted in One Man & One Woman, Pò sì jiù, You must be joking!
Tagged homosexuals, Timothy Radcliffe
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Satanic woman attacks Card. Meisner, Cathedral during Christmas Mass
From Der Spiegel (biretta tip to a reader) we read that an idiot woman who, apart from being deeply stupid, surely is doing Satan’s will disrupted the Christmas Mass of Card. Meisner in Cologne, Germany. It was also his Eminence’s 80th … Read More
Hint: It ain’t Mozart.
A way to reach out to people or a violation of identity and decorum? You decide. In St. Stephen’s, the Cathedral of Vienna? Hint: It ain’t Mozart. Is this what we need for the New Evangelization? Reason #87637 for Summorum … Read More
Seriously annoying
The “holiday” season is upon us. I don’t watch much broadcast or cable TV. I try not to watch commercials when I do. I keep a remote handy to “mute” the thing when commercial time comes. But sometimes I … Read More
You have GOT to be joking: Making the sacred as ugly as sin!
From a reader. I’ve visited Dresden in Germany yesterday and my first steps led to the Catholic cathedral. To my greatest horror and shock, I’ve discovered this monstrous “thing” in the side chapel. I have asked the lady working in … Read More
Thanks, once again, to all of you who stayed home rather than vote
He sure can pick ’em. From LifeSite: Gay teen activist honored by Obama charged with sex crimes against a 14-yr-old boy PHOENIX, November 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An openly homosexual teenager, who was given a position as an “adviser” to … Read More
PBJ = RACISM
Here is something for your “You Must Be Joking!” file. From Portland comes this bizarre story. Portland school sees racism in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches [You can’t make this … stuff up.] In an effort to combat perceived discrimination, one Portland … Read More
Of catacomb paintings, wymynprysts, and rocks on Mars
My email box is under siege by people who want me to comment on the recently restored ancient Roman fresco that feminists and members of COW… no… the Women’s Ordination Conference… that’s WOC… claim as evidence for the ordination of … Read More
Gonzaga U punishes the victims
Even as I write, my chamber is still perfumed with Hoppes Bore Cleaning Solvent: I cleaned my non-liturgical Beretta (9mm PX4 Storm) and my Springfield XD-S (.45 ACP – just back from its factory recall) after sending a couple hundred … Read More
“Affordable” Care Act advertisement
What mentality is really driving those who have pushed the ludicrously entitled “AFFORDABLE” Care Act (aka Obamacare)? Here is a real ad. Read it carefully and look with a critical eye at the imagery. What is Pres. Obama’s and Nancy Pelosi’s … Read More
mickeyfitz on SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels: “I have never attended a SSPX Mass and never would have except in an emergency, but now I’m actually tempted…”
