Greg at The Discernment Dilemma has ably gone into the Jester’s territory with his first product parody Tridentine.
Which reminds me I have been meaning to link to the Trid love song.
I think I have seen too many Chucky, Puppet Master, and assorted killer doll movies because my first thought when seeing this picture was not exactly pious.
WEST Hampstead sculptor Oliver Green is using his divine skills for charitable purposes. The enterprising 55-year-old, who lives in Spode Walk, is selling his bronze casts of Pope John Paul II on the internet. He said: "The money that is made goes to three charities: an orphanage, a children’s charity in Cambodia and a disabled children’s charity in Pattaya in Thailand." The statues cost £499.99. For more information visit www.bronzeheaven.com.
In a story about The United Methodist Church and an upcoming ecclesiastical court decision on lesbians in ministry The Mighty Barrister responds:
Here’s some news to Mr. Symonette and Ms. Stroud: God discriminates, and He does so with extreme prejudice. He hates sin. If God fires you from Heaven there is no ecclesiastical or secular court to which you can complain, no appeal from His decision. He is the Supreme legislature, and He makes the laws, not us. He is the Supreme Judge, sitting in final Judgment on the true Supreme Court (SCOTKOH – Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Heaven). He is the final arbiter of what is right and just.
The thought of God firing you from Heaven is interesting. Though I don’t think it would be quite like Donald Trump saying "Your Fired" and to be "fired" from Heaven is a double entendre. Of course God is an equal opportunity employer and will hire anybody who applies if they have the right qualifications. Make sure Baptism is on your resume or at least an approved equivalent standard like Baptism by Blood, or Baptism of Desire. God is willing to hire us for Heavenly work but we need to do what we can to get our place of employment and there is a narrow road leading up to the Heavenly offices so we do have to be careful about our commute. Oh and he has this thing about sheep and goats. Make sure you are firmly in the sheep camp – office politics and all that.
Plato’s Stepchild tagged me with the following meme.
The rules are as follows:
1.Go into your archives.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Post the fifth sentence (or closest to it).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five other people to do the same thing.
So from the post Top ten list for you might be in a "spirit of Vatican II" parish if:
Everybody but a priest or deacon delivers the homily.
Surprisingly this was my first attempt at humor on my blog and that it actually took me 23 posts before my inner jester took control.
I will inflict this on A Wing and a Prayer, Committed to an Institute, GKC’s Favourite, The World According to Me , Thoughts of a Regular Guy.
Michelle Malkin reports about a what seems to be photo manipulation by USA of a picture by Condi Rice.
Now this is probably the case that this photo was doctored. But possibly the picture is real and reveals something much more disturbing.
This is a picture of a Goa’uld – a despotic conquering race on SG-1. Notice any similarities? SG-1 has run episodes where the truth was kept from the population in general of the existence of the Goa’uld who had at time infiltrated the government at the highest levels. Today the The Sci Fi Channel announced today that had renewed Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis for the 2006-2007 season. Stargate SG-1 will become the longest-running US science fiction program as it enters its 10th season. Is there another reason for its longevity? Could the writers be trying to warn us about something? I hope that this is only the case of another doctored photo or at least that she might be a Tok’ra instead.
Update: USA Today has removed the doctored photo. Did the system lords quench this? Thanks also to Michelle Malkin for the link back to this post.
No not another one of my parodies but a real product called the iBelieve which is a replacement cap and lanyard for Apple’s iPod shuffle. On their page it says:
"But now bring me a man who plays music, And when the man played music, the groove came upon them." 2 Jobs 3:15
Shouldn’t that be Steve Jobs 3:15? They are also donating $2.00 from each sale to Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and various Children’s charities.
Now I would have though of the iPod shuffle more suitable as a Darwinist device being that the shuffle plays songs randomly. But being that the randomness is only apparent since it relies on a higher intelligence to program the appearance of randomness; I can think that it goes along with those who believe in theistic playlists, that in fact the randomly selected songs are actually providently selected.
Here are some reactions to the combination of a shuffle and a cross.
I never thought something so symbolic could be made so crass…I was wrong
and
Now I can fight vampires while rockin’ out!!
Are there any garlic-encrusted cases for the iPod yet…
Now is this trend more evidence of music worship and the cult of superstars? Probably, but I imagine it could be used as a good topic starter for a budding apologist. Now even though I am a iPod owner I have definitely noticed a cult of iPod and the staunch defenders of other MP3 players. There is almost a tone of apologetics in the articles in support of the various music playing devices. I can easily image an iPod owner who buys another device being branded a heretic. With all the fancy protective cases available for the iPod and the reverence held for them by some owners I am surprised that a line of iPod reliquaries has not come out.
Via Cnytr the other day I ran across the blog iDominican.
Now this seems to be properly ordered to their own sphere, but maybe for visual ordering he needs a larger first-class relic of Saint Thomas Aquinas or a smaller iPod.
The third movie based on the "Left Behind? series of novels about Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ is opening on 3,200 screens across the U.S. ? not one of them in a commercial theater.
Instead, "Left Behind: World at War? will be shown exclusively in churches. [Source]
Add that to another good reason to be Catholic. We might get poor catechesis and ho-hum homilies, but at least we are not subjected to the acting of Kirk Cameron.
Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman’s breast implants.
One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person’s whole music collection. BT futurology, who have developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years.
BT Laboratories’ analyst Ian Pearson said flexible plastic electronics would sit inside the breast. A signal would be relayed to headphones, while the device would be controlled by Bluetooth using a panel on the wrist. [Source][Via Contemplating the Laundry]
Well if they built in the new video iPod it would give new meaning to the words boob tube. Though I guess it would help some to stay abreast of the news. I wonder if they would use flash mammary?
Chevy Chase: Weekend Update recognizes its obligation to present responsible opposing viewpoints to our editorials. Here to reply to a recent editorial, is Emily Litella.
Emily Litella: What is is with story after story that birds flew. Bird flew this and Bird flew that? Why all the the scary stories of birds that flew and then jumping on the human population? Has Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds had a revival now and people are suffering from paranoid feelings against birds? Of course birds flew what did they think that all birds were like ostriches? People need to get out more and stop watching television. If they did that they would know birds flew and they could see it for themselves everyday in the skies.
Chevy Chase: Miss Litella?
Emily Litella: Yes?
Chevy Chase: The stories are about bird flu or avian influenza which is called the H5N1 virus which is highly contagious among bird and fatal and can be spread to humans. Additionally the stories mentioned that Asian virus could mutate and jump to humans not that birds jump on humans.
Emily Litella: Oh. I’m sorry. Never mind.
BISHOPS are never too old for high technology.
Thus, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) announced Wednesday that it has directed every Filipino bishop to create their own blog to expand their reach to the faithful.
As defined, a blog a Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written by one person or a group of contributors. Entries contain commentary and links to other Web sites, and images as well as a search facility may also be included.
Mark Inigo Tallara, information officer and media relation assistant of the CBCP, said "our aim is to make every bishop accessible to the faithful, particularly to the youth that’s why we want each of them to have their own blog."
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, who is one of the first bishops to have his blog on the Internet, said he has his own blog not just because he is following the call of the late Pope John Paul II to tap the Internet as its new form of evangelization but to also forward the truth in dated "socio-moral issues".
Aside from Cruz, other prelates that already have their blog include outgoing CBCP president and Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla, Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Queveo, Dipolog Bishop Jose Manguiran and Borongan Bishop Loenardo Medroso.
To get into the bishops’ blog, simply click www.cbcponline.net. You could also access directly the blog of the bishops by logging on to www.ovc.blogspot.com for Archbishop Cruz’s "Viewpoints", :for Quevedo’s "Perspectives", for Bishop Manguiran’s "The Meaning" and for Bishop Medroso’s "Tidbits". [Source]
I don’t know what I would think if the USCCB decided to do the same. Sure I would love to see a Bruskewitz Blog or one for Bishop Chaput or a multitude of other fine Bishops. A Cardinal Mahony blog would be pretty boring though. After all there are no liturgical abuses there to complain about as Cardinal "no abuses here" Mahony has told us before. And could you imagine the monotony of post after post about the wonders of pastoral assistants and the beauty of cement in architectural designs? Though I guess that would be better than page after page of summaries of priestly abuse that was enabled under his watch. You just know you wouldn’t find EWTN on his blogroll or for that matter this blog.
Speaking of blogrolls, have you ever played blog roll orthodoxy when visiting a new Catholic blog? By their links you will know them. Though this doesn’t work on new blogs where there blogroll says Google and Edit Me.