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A reader sent me a link to this years edition.

Tired of all those voting guides and varying statements. Well here is the tried and true way for the Catholic vote which has worked for years.

Step 1: Pick the candidate you like most.

Step 2: Then justify it via selective quotes from the Catechism and other Church documents.

That's all there is to it.

Coming to you on EWTN!

Our brand new show is a story of clergy and laity with extraordinary liturgical abilities who fight against the various liturgical catastrophes around the world. Our liturgical heroes do not have superhuman abilities, but follow the supernatural inspirations of grace in the reform of the reform.

Our heroes include Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Pell, Cardinal Hoyos, Cardinal "do-it-yourself liturgy is over" Arinze, Monsignor Marini, Father "Slavishly accurate liturgical translations" Z, Father Fessio S.J., Helen Hull Hitchcock, Jimmy Akin, Colin Donavan, Shawn Tribe and a cast of thousands dedicated to protecting and enriching the liturgy.

Each week our heroes fight against villains that do no simply rollover at the mention of the GIRM. A good action show requires capable villains that you love to hate and you won't be disappointed by villains such as Bishop Fishperson and his hordes of liturgist minions such as Syler the liturgist who has the power to suck the beauty out of anything he touches. Though this is actually a common power to most liturgists who suck the liturgy dry of beauty in the name of relevance. Each week you will be sitting on the edge as you wonder will the heroes defeat the plans of Fr. Richard S. Vosko in his latest wreckovation scheme or whether a clown Mass will go on as scheduled.

So whether our heroes are fighting to protect against attempts to quash the Extraordinary Form of the Mass or ensuring that the Ordinary Form of the Mass is celebrated as it was intended you will stand up and cheer as our heroes go up against the worst of liturgical villains each week.

"Heroes" is an epic drama that chronicles the lives of those protecting the liturgy and go beyond just griping and moaning about it. This is must see TV to save our litugy.

I am starting to feel sorry for Doug Kmiec. After his most recent article for the L.A. Times in defense of Obama on abortion you got to wonder how deep of a hole he is willing to dig for himself. At the rate he is going he is going to run into copyright infringement on Jules Verne's Journey ot the center of the earth.

I do wonder how he found himself in this predicament of going from a vocal Gov. Romney supporter to a vocal Sen. Obama supporter which is not exactly a normal progression. Though maybe it is not as hard to go from saying that Mitt Romney is now pro-life and had a pro-life conversion to saying that Sen. Obama is the best hope to reduce abortion. Though the defense of Romney is at least plausible.

Sometimes I get the sense that Kmiec went to Sen. Obama in a fit of pique instead of being willing to support McCain and he has been trying to justify himself ever since.

Now many of us probably have taking a position that we later realized was foolish, but were too prideful to admit our mistake. Though when you take such a public position, pride can really kick in to keep you from saying "What in the world was I thinking, boy did I screw up."

This is why I propose a "Witless Protection Program." The Witless Protection Program would take people who took really stupid public stances and relocate them to somewhere else in the United States and give them new names and new lives. U.S. Marshals would oversee the Witless Protection Program or Witless Security Program (WitlessSec) and make sure that the Witlesses stay our of political life or make future stupid public opinions.

I am sure that if Doug Kmiec was offered such a program he would surely avail himself of it. Surely it would be a relief to be able to stop defending Obama as someone who would actually reduce abortions. He wouldn't have to explain how the The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which Obama promised to sign as soon as presented to him which overrides all existing restrictions on abortion in the states will actually reduce abortion. So write your Senator and Congressmen and support the Witless Protection Program to help save so many like Professor Kmiec.

In a stunning development that's left the political world shocked, accusations are surfacing from a blog called CMR that Presidential candidate Barack Obama may have at one time been a fetus.

Although Obama has consistently pushed a radical anti-fetus agenda throughout his political career, a revelation that he was actually a fetus at one time could sink his campaign among hard-core Democrats.

"The Democratic leadership does not like fetuses," said one high ranking source in the Democratic Party. "To find out this late in the game that Barack Obama may have been a fetus is very disturbing for a lot of us."

Some DNC officials are saying they feel "lied to."

Read the whole thing at Creative Minority Report

The Church Militant

Recently their has been a lot of talk about Microsoft's new 300 million dollar ad campaign created in part to respond to Apple's successful "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ad campaign and to try to do some damage control on the Vista brand.

Personally I thought the two Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates ads were quite strange, though fun. Like Seinfeld not only were they about nothing, they were also nothing about Vista. After paying Seinfeld 10 million dollars that ad campaign stopped at 2 commercials (which they now say they planned all along.)

The new Microsoft commercials have a John Hodgman look-a-like saying "I'm a PC and I have been made into a stereotype" followed by all kinds of people repeating "I'm a PC." Now Microsoft playing the victim card and directly responding to Apple's ad doesn't seem like a good ad campaign to me. Especially since once again they don't talk about Vista.

As for myself I am a Mac switcher since last October after having used Windows since 2.0 and while I really prefer iMac and OSX Leopard, I am not a Vista hater. It is not as bad as its reputation and initial driver problems are mostly gone. I make my living as a Windows developer, but ironically Iknow code using Visual Studio on my iMac via VMWare Fusion.

Anyway I want Microsoft to have a good ad campaign, something they have never really had. So I started thinking how effective political attack ads are. What if Microsoft went down that route instead. So without receiving a penny from Microsoft I decided to create a commercial for them with my first YouTube video.

I made my Microsoft ad using iMovie 08 on my Mac, but that's okay since Microsoft's "I'm a PC" Ads were also made on a Mac by their ad agency.

A reader sent me a link to a site and say "Now I've seen everything." The site is sspxsingles.com. Though I can understand the reason for the site. It is annoying to advertise yourself as SSSPXWF (Single Society Saint Piux X White Female) in the local newspaper in their singles section.

I wonder if there is a Sedevacanist Singles for those who go further than most in the SSPX and say there hasn't been a valid pope since Pope Piux the XII. Maybe a dissidentsingles.com for those of the progressive bent.

Ironically those looking to get married within an SSPX chapel will end up staying single. Marriages in an SSPX chapel are invalid and illicit. They do not have the faculties to hear confessions or to perform marriages from the local ordinary. Other sacraments are valid though.

These are some of the new faith focused Obama merch and it looks like Catholics got singled out first, but there is suppose to be gear for other denominations coming.

The kind soul that I am I thought I would give Obama a hand to get out his message to some specific groups.

Oddly Obama has no gear of Atheists and no site called nofaith.barackobama.com for them. Plus where is Wiccans for Obama08 or Pagans for Obama08?

I have been waiting for some merchandise from the McCain website to come out and it is finally here.

Sen. McCain has been long known to poke the right in the eye (he is more dangerous than a Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun). And no doubt he will continue to do it, especially if he becomes president. Pro-lifers got an eye poke when the McCain campaign recently ran an ad in support of stem-cells that made no distinction between embryonic and adult stem cells and he has yet to run one pro-life ad. McCain supports the evil of ESCR in the form of using the lives of human embryos created from IVF for research and he does not support creating embryos for research. But an ad such as this makes this murky and that the intrinsic evil he supports might be broader than what his campaign site says. So the McCain Poke Guard will really come in handy and I am ordering a set and I hope the lenses are very strong.

Whatever they put in the water at the last bishop's meeting I hope they keep using it. Spinal-fluoride to prevent truth decay.

I had a good laugh when I saw that Karen Hall had written "Nancy Pelosi's bishop threatening her with a "conversation.""

Though maybe she isn't aware of some translations of Matthew 18:15 that say.

"If your brother sins against you, go and invite him to a conversation, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen then take it to the next level a dialogue. If he refuses to listen then perhaps a listening session is in order."

Several readers sent me in the following story.

ROME -- An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.

The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.

"Nuns are a bit excluded, they are a bit marginalized in ecclesiastical life," Rungi told The Associated Press after Italian media carried reports of the idea. "This will be an occasion to make their contribution more visible."

Rungi, a theologian and schoolteacher from the Naples area, said that visitors to his site will have a month to "vote for the nun they consider a model."

Nuns will fill out a profile including information about their life and vocation as well as a photograph. It will be up to them to choose whether to pose with the traditional veil or with their heads uncovered.

"We are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits," Rungi said by telephone from his town of Mondragone. "But being ugly is not a requirement for becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide it."

Rungi said the idea was first suggested to him by nuns with whom he regularly prays and works. He hopes there will be dozens of submissions once the Web site is started.

The contest drew criticism from the association of Catholic teachers.

"It's an initiative that belittles the role of nuns who have dedicated themselves to God," the group's president, Alberto Giannino, told Italy's ANSA news agency on Sunday.

I wonder if they will have a pantsuit competition or is that reserved for American nun beauty contests (what a scary image)? This though is such a bad idea on so many levels. If you think bit nuns are being "marginalized in ecclesiastical life" why in the world would you marginalize them further. This story is getting coverage because everyone immediately realizes how silly this is. How about a spiritual beauty contest? "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart." Though trying to book God to be a judge at a spiritual beauty contest is rather difficult and he is the only one fully qualified.

The contest is now canceled.

Since others are having fun with the Obama sign I thought I would join in.

Made me think of this.

Gateway Pundit thinks this is a gesture stolen from the Star Trek "Space Hippies" episode.

One commenter said it stood for zero experience. Ha!

Fr. Finigan has released our secret plans for world domination.

After seeing today's PPOTD at American Papist I couldn't resist.

The Catholic Church is like a box of chocolates.  With 24
Catholic Churches that can be grouped into eight different
rites you can really sink your teeth into the truth.

The funny guys at Creative Minority Report do it again.

Maureen at Aliens in This World come up with the TOP TEN CONTRADICTORY ATTITUDES OF THE SIXTIES BUNCH

10. Demonstrations and marches are good.
Eucharistic and saint-day processions are bad.

9. Incense at home to cover up that marijuana smell is good. Yay, Sanskrit chant!
Incense in church to waft prayers to Heaven is bad. Boo, Gregorian chant!

8. Renovating old houses and antiques to their original condition is good.
Maintaining old churches in their original condition is bad.

7. Indoctrinating children from birth to love peace is good.
Baptizing children soon after birth, and teaching them the Christian faith, is bad.

6. It's good for kids to learn a second language. Bilingual education is great.
It's bad for kids to learn Latin. Teaching Mass parts in Latin or Greek is abusive.

5. Early music is good, especially on the original instruments and for its original purposes.
Early music in Mass is bad, especially on the original instruments and for its original purposes.

4. Grassroots movements are good.
Grassroots traditional religious movements are bad.

3. Diversity and experimentation is good.
Diversity within religious tradition is bad.

2. Alternative lifestyle choices are good.
Chaste alternate lifestyle choices are bad.

And the number one contradictory attitude of the Sixties Bunch?

1. All life is sacred, and every person has worth and is good!
Babies we don't want are bad.

• Being a consciousness objector is good
  A pharmacist being a consciousness objector is a bad thing
• Having choice is a good thing
  Having more than one form of Mass in the Latin Rite is a bad thing.
• We should help the poor in all cases
  A pro-life pregnancy center that helps poor women is a bad thing and in fact should have rigorous inspections unlike abortion clinics
• Celebrating women is a good thing
  Devotions to Mary are a bad thing
• We need lots of arts in the public square
  Actually having statues and beautiful things in a church is bad.
• Using organic foods and being careful to avoid chemicals in your food is good.
  Not using chemical contraceptives is bad.
• We are all one we must go beyond skin color.
  Whites adopting black children is bad.
• Protest marches are good.
  Protesting in front of an abortion clinic is bad.
• Vatican II was good.
  Following the documents of Vatican II is bad.
• The laity getting more involved with the Church is good.
  Lay Catholic apologists are bad.
  

Blogger Scott Waddell sent me me a link to the following story.

Dottie Zimmerman is a 63-year-old mother of three, an award-winning religion teacher at a Toledo Catholic school, a former Ursuline nun, and a director of the Children's Theatre Workshop.

For the last five years, Mrs. Zimmerman also says she has been "channeling" Padre Pio, letting the dead Italian Catholic saint mystically speak through her.

Last month, Mrs. Zimmerman channeled the saint during a meeting of the Toledo Lightworkers Co-op, a group of people who explore alternative spirituality.

It was the fifth or sixth time she has publicly channeled Padre Pio, a Capuchin friar from Pietrelcina, Italy, who was known for bearing stigmata, or the wounds of Christ, on his hands and feet. He died in 1968 at age 81 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

Why am I not surprised that an award winning religion teacher at a Catholic school could even speak of using channeling in relation to Saint?   Or that she would do so for some new age group.

An eighth-grade religion teacher at St. Patrick of Heatherdowns School for nearly 30 years, Mrs. Zimmerman said she felt as though spiritual conversations had been percolating within her for years before she began to explore her gift.

She had dismissed the voices as figments of her overactive imagination.

"I'm a very creative, right-brained person so this must be just me imposing my imagination on situations," she said. "That sounded logical to me."

I say go with your original instincts. Now exactly what are these messages?

..."One of the things that he insists is that we breathe deeply and we laugh - love, laugh,"

..."All presidential elections are a reflection of the way the world is at the moment. They all speak of change," Mrs. Zimmerman said while channeling. "So if you're looking for change, you have a wide path. They are all having their plans, their paths. Which one do you feel comfortable with? That, my brother, is your choice and I cannot tell you that."

..."But do know that there was no accident that there was a female within this, because her purpose was to open the awareness of the line of the females, of the path of the females, not her particularly, but the path of a female, that nurturing, that love aspect that is part of what goes along with the term female."

Yeah that really sounds like something St. Padre Pio would say.

...Regarding the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy, Mrs. Zimmerman said while channeling that everyone who "transitioned" that day went immediately "home," or into heaven, "including those who perpetrated this particular incident. They didn't have their 21 virgins in their party but they were celebrated for three days in partying and love and acceptance because they did what they thought they were supposed to do."

This paragraph I have to admit is one of the funniest I have ever read. Put down your drink cups - you have been warned.

"In this dream I kept seeing a Merlin character," she said. "... So he [Mr. Uhl] said if he's reoccurring that much, there's some energy there that we need to look into, and he gave me a couple exercises where in fact I would start asking Merlin what he meant or why this happened in the dream. ... And I would write answers, and it's like the answers would just come automatically. ... Well, pretty soon I couldn't write fast enough, they were just going in the computer, and then one day he just says to me, 'You know, I am not Merlin. I am Padre Pio.'"

Mrs. Zimmerman said she channels other spirits besides Padre Pio.

Every Saturday, for example, she channels her mother, who died two years ago, by typing out a letter to her surviving father, which she has collected in a looseleaf binder. "He really looks forward to it because he misses her so dreadfully," she said.

She also channels her late husband, John, who "crossed over" 16 years ago.

I guess she has a party line.

Now I don't intend to mock this deluded women who needs our prayers, but what I find so interesting is the straight reporting on this.  I wonder if somebody was actually getting locutions form St. Padre Pio and the messages included references to abortion and the culture of death how the story would be dealt with? Somehow I think the story would be reported quite differently with quite a different tone.

The latest Holy Whapping Television Network (HWTN) programming guiide.

The Lord of the Rings

I do enjoy it when my own humor sparks others to their own hilarity.  I jested the other day:

If women are being called to the priesthood then why is it only dissident women that are being called?  Where are the women being ordained that have a preference for the extraordinary form of the Mass?  Why do they always have a preference for Hippy stoles and not beautifully embroidered ones.  Where are the traditionalist women priestesses who are being called?

Well Mulier Fortis answered the call to be a traddy womynpriest in a hilarious post that should be read in full.

If that wasn't fun enough Fr. Z does a hilarious parady fisk of the questions asked by Mulier Fortis.

At St. Louis Catholic.

Where else then at the always creative Creative Minority Report.

I hope that I don't come off as paranoid or as someone who relishes conspiracy theories.  I have no tinfoil hat and I am afraid that even the thickest grade of tinfoil will not protect us from this threat.  Now this intro may seem a little overblown, but let me give you some documentary evidence before I make the case about this looming threat. Please forgive me for these graphic images, but sometimes we must see the reality to be shocked into action.

These photographs were all taken during Catholic Masses or were from events such as a Eucharistic Conference.  These puppets seem to come in all sizes from cute and cuddly, human size, to gigantic.  Though there is a surprising consistency to all of them of a lack of joy and a very dour disposition.  At first I thought it was just a coincidence to find all of these puppets used in liturgical contexts within a relatively short period of time.  I soon started pondering if perhaps something more nefarious was behind all of this.  I know I for one do not welcome our new puppet overlords.

As a SF fan I thought about Robert Heinlein's novel The Puppet Masters where an alien slug-like creature took over the leadership and started to take control.  When I first started seeing this puppets I thought their introduction was totally alien to the liturgy, that is when it struck me "alien" to the liturgy - what if aliens in the liturgy?  I started to try to think what if I was part of a liturgically minded alien race whose different forms often looked like puppets. What steps would I do to infiltrate and then slowly become accepted until it was too late. Well if I was such an alien obviously I would go to the Religious Education Conference in Los Angeles.  This would be the perfect hub to take control since many diocese send their people involved in liturgy there and they they pass on the latest liturgical fads to their own diocese.  So I started to do some more investigation and it was not long till l found a picture of Rev. Joe Kempf.  during the Gospel reading for a young adult liturgy at the RECongress in 2008.

Now you might somehow barely fathom puppets at Mass for children, but to give the Sesame Street treatment to a group of teenagers and above? Obviously these alien puppet-like creatures have hypnotic control or how else can you explain young adults being treated like this?  I then wondered if they infiltrated the Diocese of Los Angeles Religious Education Conference than what else might they have they taken over?  I once again tried to tap myself into the mind of these liturgically minded aliens as a kind of alien profiler.  If I was in their shoes (or i guess in some cases a sock) what would I do to give me a strategic position and at the same time give me a good defensive stronghold once our plans were fully discovered?  

It then dawned on me that Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral was a horrible design for a Catholic Church, but a great design for a defensive bunker.  All that concrete would be perfect defense. But what alien artifacts might be already inside the Cathedral?

Why in the world would anybody pay one million dollars for this actual tabernacle in the Cathedral?  The only sane interpretation is that the money was needed to create this alien artifact whose purpose I can not discern. If I put up a quiz with this picture and asked - alien artifact or tabernacle - which would you choose? Though it could be related to one of the liturgical puppet races since is has that same sad dour look to it.  But if the L.A. Cathedral was actually designed as a bunker then this means this conspiracy goes all the way to the top!

No wonder Cardinal Mahony speaks so often about illegal aliens!  He has been covering for the liturgical puppet aliens all along.  First you slowly introduce all kinds of odd elements into the liturgy and pretty soon people won't bat an eye at puppets being involved.  Though I think I can discern a weakness in these human looking helpers for the liturgical puppet aliens. The answer was in front of us all along. Obviously they are deathly afraid of precious metals which is why they can only use glass chalices.  Long after Redemptionis Sacramentum was published glass chalices and pitchers are still being used.  We must hunt down these liturgists within.  I suggest a crucifix made out of precious metal such as silver to test them.  No wonder liturgists have done their best to get rid of silver and gold crucifixes.

Wake up people and act!  Or else instead of mariology we will be force to learn marionetteology.

Update: I had originally identified Robert Scholla, S.J. as the priest with the puppet as per the REConference website. It was mistaken, the priest in the photo is Rev. Joe Kempf.

Here's an idea. I would really like to see a new document come out from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In it the document would call for guitar and percussion instruments to be given high esteem. Liturgical dance would also be called out to be given pride of place. While we are at it we could also have experimentation with the liturgy to be also given pride of place. The document could then go on to list songs by Marty Haugen and David Haas and similar contemporary composers in other countries to be given high esteem.

Now you might wonder if I have flipped my lid, but the actuality is that words just don't mean what we think they mean. For example Vatican II called for the pipe organ to be given high esteem and for Gregorian Chant to be given pride of place. After reflecting on this I realized that pride of place and high esteem means to virtually eliminate it from the liturgy. Or at least that seems to be the result of the interpretation of these documents. If only we could make impoverished elements of the modern liturgy the pride of place and high esteem that they gave the pipe organ and Gregorian Chant.

Today the New Liturgical Movement posted an excellent interview with Fr. Weber by Zenit concerning Gregorian Chant.

Here is a sign I would like to see in some parishes. Though my own parish does have a "Out of respect for our Lord" sign that lists what should not be worn.

The Stained Glass Buffalo blog has a picture of an actual stained glass window that he found in a Buffalo, NY church.

There is also a St. Lucy, but I think not a St. Schroeder.

The B-Movie Catechism is unusually informative and funny and today is no exception with an excellent merging of a series of B-Movie stills and a bit of Thomistic philosophy concerning souls.

Creative Minority Report comes up with an idea for a new website.

MyCustomizedCatholic.com will also have an online directory of dissident priests that you can hire to bring the Sacra-ligious-ments™ to your faith community.

CLEVELAND (AP) - Officials at the Cleveland airport say they're considering moving its chapel because some visitors say the space is "too Catholic."

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport rents the large space to the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland for $1,200 a year. But as officials plan to renovate that concourse, they are talking with the diocese about moving the space or perhaps making it less denomination specific.

The Rev. Charles Doerpers says the diocese is open to making the chapel more inclusive to other faiths. But he also thinks money is the issue and fears the airport only wants the space for retail shops.

The American Civil Liberties Union has long complained about the space's Catholic-specific space.

Well all they have to do is hire Fr. Dick Vosco and in no time they will have it looking less Catholic.

I was listening to Leo Laporte's Tech Guy podcast and one women called up about site advice and mentioned one of her websites called rosarybelts.com.

This has got to be one of the strangest image juxtapositions I have ever seen.

Wow I need this Holy Card.

Creative Minority Report came up with:

To help the Los Angeles archdiocese pay off the “crippling debt” accrued from sexual abuse settlements, Cardinal Roger Mahony will soon announce that his new $200 million Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles will now be called Auto Zone's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Mahony said the unobtrusive naming rights are the best way to ease its financial recovery from the settlements.

According to the March 14 Tidings, the archdiocesan newspaper, from two sexual abuse settlements – last year’s “global settlement” of 508 cases and a December 2006 settlement of 45 cases – the archdiocese has agreed to pay $720 million over the next few years. That coupled with the skyrocketing costs of the Cathedral inspired the naming rights breakthrough.

Mahony said the Church will be back in the black soon enough, after this idea.

A few other "untraditional" changes to the Cathedral is a bowl of holy water which is kept near each entrance to the church will have a small tasteful sign underneath that "Evian" is the official water used for holy water.

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Actually if they did sell the name of the Cathedral in L.A. I am sure Progressive Auto Insurance would be an apt sponsor.

Ian of Aquinas and More has started a group humor blog called Stuff Catholics Like with several contributors from the funny side of St. Blogs. My first contribution to this blog is posted.

If Barach Obama was part of the Congregation for Divine Worship that selected patron saints than surely St. Gabriel Possenti would be at the top of the list for clinging to religion and guns. And coming form the small town of Assisi, Italy does him no favors in Obama's eyes.

Funky Dung sent me a link to a funny poster of the Pope based on the Obama "Hope" poster. Goes perfectly with my The Audacity of Pope.

Remember the reporter who confused "crows ear" with crozier? Well here is a pretty funny one.

VOA's Jeff Swicord drew an admittedly crummy assignment: reporting on the latest shenanigans put on by the "woman priest" crowd. But what should have been a routine serving of empty drivel went l.o.l. funny when Swicord attributed to an Opus Dei priest the following comment on the maleness and the priesthood: "'The church teaches that he [the priest] does this in what is called insomnia nomini Christa, that he does this in the name and the person of Jesus,' says [Fr. Arne] Panula. Jesus was male."

A priest acts "insomnia nomini Christa"? That is screamingly funny. It doesn't mean a thing, folks. The closest I can get is "lack of sleep to/for the name Christina".

But apparently it's not just Opus Dei priests who don't know Latin, it's lady priestettes too: Writes Swicord: "Meehan disagrees. 'A priest is suppose to be in personi Christa,' she says. 'That does not mean taking on male identity.'"

Okay, maybe Father Bridget Mary meant to say "in gobbledy-gook Christina" but I'll bet she didn't; she knows the Latin phrase here is "in persona Christi", which correctly translates as "in the person of Christ."

Paul Nichols is always good for a laugh and this is perfect.

The Crescat is holding a caption contest for a photo she has but I doubt if anyone can top her "when liturgical dancers get 'raptured'..." Though Sancte Pater has improved on the original photo for a good laugh.

A reader sent me a links to a Seattle Times contest to create works of "art" using peeps.  Most of them are pretty funny, though there is the same peep marriages one (for the record I think uncivil unions are best for same-marshmallow peeps).  The Pope as Peep even makes an appearance in the Peep mobile.  You can checkout the slideshow (or is that peep show) here.