Happy news and not an April Fools joke in
any way. Catholic satirist Maureen Martin of the
catholicnews.org blog is back and she has several hilarious parody stories
published on InsideCatholic.com. These are so funny!
She also has some newer posts on her blog.
As a Trekkie the Pope has some work to do
on his “Live long and prosper” hand gesture.
Well as John C. Write wrote “If Vulcans
had a church, they’d be Catholics.” Though they might say instead “Live
long and proper and die in a state of grace.
Hat Tip to the
Shrine of the Holy Wrapping for finding the original image
and wanting a Star Trek theme to go with it.
Plus maybe this explains the
pulpit, lectern, and chair design for the Pope’s visit to America.
Update: The Shrine of the Holy Whapping has a bunch of Pope Benedict Star Trek pictures.
NEW YORK – One of the many gifts Pope Benedict will receive when he arrives in New York City next month will be a skateboard designed by a local child.
The Archdiocese of New York is holding a contest this spring to see who could design the best “Official Papal Skateboard” for the 80-year-old pontiff.
About 70 children entered the competition. A winner has yet to be picked.
The idea for the contest came from a youth skateboarding club at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Manhattan.
American Papist previously posted on the contest for the official Papal Skateboard and you can see the individual submissions here.
Now you might see the idea of a skateboard contest for the Pope to be rather silly especially with the stereotype of skaters being rebellious, non-conforming youth. But the Pope receives lots of gifts he wouldn’t personally have much use for, but amazingly this is not true in this case and I have a world exclusive.
The above is a never before seen picture showing the Pope coming off of a ramp at the secretive papal skateboard park.
Word has it that it was after the Pope saw Br. Pio Maria of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal performing and jumping over priests that he decided he would be interested in learning how to skateboard himself. Now we don’t have to worry about the Pope starting to include the number eight in words in his encyclicals, wearing baggy pants, and listening to skate punk; especially since he much prefers Mozart on his iPod while skateboarding
Here is my post from the last two years.
Of course Palm Sunday leads to:
A major part of Palm’s line.
The Palm Pilate.
Paul at Alive and Young has his own funny Palm Sunday graphic.
Recently SSPX Bishop Williamson went off
on a rant againt The Sound of Music in a letter to SSPX priests
and stated regarding The Sound of Music “the mentality of
sweet compassion for homosexuals and of bitter grief for Princess Di.”
His review would be great parody if it was parody.
Fr. Dwight Longnecker has written a couple
of real parodies which he says are from Richad Williamson film review
archives and they are hillarious.
I must admit that I first thought Father’s
Mary Poppins parody was real since it caught Williamson’s spirit
perfectly.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed today to track down and prosecute the people who set off a small explosive device in front of the military recruiting office in Times Square early this morning. "We will not tolerate these kind of acts," he said adding that the apparent targeting of the famous recruiting station is "an insult to every one of our brave men and women serving around the world."
The damage thank goodness was minor and no one was injured but the Creative Minority Reporters are now urging a slew of federal laws protecting military installations that promote the right to choose the military. CMR urges that federal extortion and racketeering laws be used against protesters at military recruiting stations -just as they were against pro-lifers. CMR hopes to bankrupt the anti-war movement by using federal anti-mob laws against protest groups, claiming that such organizations were violent criminal conspiracies.
CMR is hoping a conservative senator will sponsor a bill designed to protect military recruiters and anyone who utilized their right to choose the armed forces from violent acts by anti-military extremists. The bill will make it a federal crime to attack or blockade a military installation. The bill is called the Freedom of Access to Military Entrances Act. Anti-military protesters will also not be allowed within 150 feet of any military installation or anyone in the military for that matter and even those just wearing a uniform of any kind.
CMR worries that such anti-military violence will create a climate of fear around the country preventing men and women from their right to choose the military.
Sometimes parody is a thing of beauty and the Jester’s hat is tipped to Matthew for this brilliant bit of parody commentary.
I once was a military recruiter in the state of Washington for the Navy and we certainly for the most part were not treated very kindly. I had the tires on my government car slashed and the people working in the public schools pretty much did everything they could to not be helpful. The contract we had for our office in a small retail place prohibited us from placing a sign that the recruiting station was there in the front where the other entry signs were.
Earlier this week Creative Minority Report also came up with this video.
There are some graphic scenes of the results of abortion. This is the second time that I have seen the song Mad World from the movie Donnie Darko (which I really liked) used in a pro-life video.
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Don’t you just love the politics of hope?
It is just so hopeful!
Combine that with change and it is perfect. Let us
hope to change and change to hope!
So let us begin with just some of the
examples of hope and change that
Sen. Obama promises.
In the
July 17 speech, Obama attacked the Supreme Court decision that upheld
the federal partial-birth abortion ban and the nomination of Supreme
Court justices who favor overturning Roe v. Wade. In the speech the
senator said, “There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do
not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I
will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield.”
Yes Partial Birth Abortion is so hopeful
and a Democrat supporting it is such a change!
Can we vacuum out the brains of a child
just
prior to being born? Yes we can!
The senator said he had a long
tradition
of support for legalized abortion, citing his efforts in the Illinois
State Senate and his classes as a law professor. I have worked on
these issues for decades now, he said. I put Roe at the center of my
lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught Constitutional Law.
Not simply as a case about privacy but as part of the broader struggle
for womens equality.
Yes abortion in all of its glory is just
so hopeful Keeping abortion on demand as the law of the land
is all about change.
And of course those evil pro-lifers who
want to destroy reproductive freedom and to remove that
Constitutional right to abortion are not about hope or change at all.
Those pregnancy centers which offer help to women who find
themselves in a difficult circumstance are not about hope at all.
Providing help and support to the mother and actually helping
a child to be born is just not hopeful. Supporting Planned
Parenthood and others kill the child and not give a damn what happens
to the mother after pays her fee and she leaves the abortion clinic is
all about hope.
But wait there is more hope!
RUSSERT: Senator Obama, any statements
or vote you’d like to takeback?
OBAMA: Well, you know, when I first arrived in the Senate that first
year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I remember how
we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed
Congress to interject itself into that decision making process of the
families. It wasn’t something I was comfortable with, but it was not
something that I stood on the floor and stopped. And I think that was a
mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a
mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better. And so
that’s an example I think of where inaction…
It just makes me feel warm and fuzzy to
think of all of Sen. Obama’s hopefulness towards Terri Schiavo.
Can’t you feel the love! Jesus wept at Lazarus’
tomb and Obama regrets not doing more to help someone die sooner.
Just too bad that Sen. Obama could not
have been involved and offered the same type of hope for now 14 year old Haleigh Poutre who was
on the verge of being dehydrated to death by court order and is now
talking. Let us not have such travesties of patients defying
their diagnosis in the future and let us share some Terri Schiavo style
Obama hope for people with cognitive difficulties.
Abortion, euthanasia, cloning and killing,
and using embryonic human beings for research are all about hope!
Catholic Answers Action lists five
non-negotiables as abortion, euthanasia, ESCR, human cloning, and
homosexual marriage. Wow he gets a perfect five of five and certainly
he will be non-negotiable on these issues. And what about his
hopeful support of infanticide? A natural for the
Catholic vote.
For my part I hope that he
repents and changes
his culture of death positions.
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