Renova, a Portuguese paper company, is celebrating Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming trip to Madrid by releasing special edition Papal toilet paper. The yellow and white rolls–representing the colors of the Papal flag–are being released for World Youth Day. The product’s description on Renova’s website calls them “streamers,” yet they come in the same packaging as their toilet paper and can only be found in the toilet paper section of their site. Don’t be bashful, for Renova asks you to “Open your windows to celebrate!” when the Pope comes to Madrid.

Well now I know what to use if I ever decided to T.P. the Vatican.

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But it all sounds so same ol’, same ol’, y’know? Maybe Catholic bloggers will have to endure sufferings that are a bit more…I don’t know, personal. Custom-fit.

For instance – and I’m just imagining here –

* LarryD – transcribe every issue of the National Catholic Reporter onto strips of bark using a piece of charcoal.
* Fr Z – drink instant coffee while blogging on a 386…with a dial-up connection.
* Mark Shea – chained at the ankle with Michael Voris (that could work both ways, I suppose).
* The writers at The American Catholic – recite every Vox Nova post in Shakespearean prose.

Read the whole list from the great LarryD of Acts of the Apostasy.

Now to add my own suggestions.

• Mark Shea – Locked in a  combos with 500 people calling him a liberal and another 500 calling him a conservative.
• Fr. Phillip Neri Powell, OP His purgatory would be something like being trapped in a gigantic library with no books on the shelves.  Kind of like the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last” where book lover Burgess Merideth and ends with a gigantic pile of books around him and his glasses broken.  In fact that would be my Purgatory also – or perhaps Hell.  This would also be purgatory for Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor, and Happy Catholic.
• Jimmy Akin – Hosting a Catholic Radio show 24/7 where the only question from callers is about Jesus’ brothers and sisters or “Call no man father”.
• Fr. Roderick – Working at a genius bar in a Microsoft Store.

• Fr. Richsteig – An office where hymns from the Gather Hymnal are piped in like Musak.
• Tom at Disputations.  To have volumes and volumes of St. Thomas Aquinas’ works, but they are all in Thomas’ handwriting.
• Jeff Geerling – To become a web developer for a site that uses Joomla.  A inside joke for those who know Jeff.
• Patrick Madrid – Have to publish a Catholic magazine using only a mimeograph machine with no graphics allowed and totally humorless.
• Shawn Tribe and the writers at the New Liturgical Movement Now quite sure, but I think it involves Folk guitar masses and the Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles.
• Dave Armstrong – Allowed to blog all he wants as long as he keeps his posts under 140 characters.
• Ironic Catholic – To have to listen to Alanis Morissette song “Irony” over and over again and not be allowed to complaint the Alanis Morissette does not understand what irony means.
• The Curt Jester – Having to read all my blog posts over and over again.  I am only thankful I never blogged when I was an atheist.

Rudy, the Erie Zoo’s late, great gorilla, had one. So did former Gov. Tom Ridge, who maintains a home here.

Many of baseball’s biggest names and some presidents and celebrities have them, too.

Now Erie Catholic Bishop Donald W. Trautman is among those immortalized in miniature with a bobblehead.

Trautman said the likeness is “pretty close.”

He received his figure with the shaking noggin during an annual diocesan gathering for priests held around June 24, which was Trautman’s 75th birthday.

“I was surprised,” he said.

He said he was given a box to open during a dinner and found the smiling bobblehead inside.

Each of the 13-county diocese’s priests also received one of the bobbleheads.

“It was a sign of special friendship, and I appreciate the gesture. … It was a very creative gift,” Trautman said.

The Rev. John Detisch, pastor of Erie’s Sacred Heart Catholic Church, was the priest responsible for the bobblehead. He was out of town Tuesday and couldn’t be reached for comment.