The blogger at Ukok’s Place has a Credo
Christian E-Cards site. Check it out.
Apoloblogology covers the phony
seven deadly sins dust up.
Some new sites:
The Apostolic Post a nicely
designed news source. Though it needs an RSS feed.
You can listen to the upcoming album of
Catholic recording artist Matt Maher here.
VATICAN CITY, March 13 (Reuters) – Pope
Benedict is “profoundly moved and saddened” by the death of Paulos
Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop in Iraq who was kidnapped
last month, a Vatican spokesman said on Thursday.
“All of us had continued to pray and hope for his release, which the
Pope had repeatedly urged,” Father Federico Lombardi said in a
statement shortly after news of the death.
Voting
in the Catholic Blog Awards for
2008 has already started a bit ago, but voting is open until
Monday of
Holy Week. I would like to thank those who voted for me in five
different categories and your check is in the mail.
I would though like to say something about
the other blogs in the humor category. Last year my negative campaign ad appears to
have been effective so I will give it another go.
There are also many other blogs that I did
not reference. I
just ran out of money for opposition research.
I’m the Curt Jester and I approve this
message.
Update:
American Papist has responded to
my charges in a populist way saying “I am not your average Catholic
and neither are you!” Everybody can not be above average or
the mathematical law of averages becomes nonsense. Let me ask
you if you made an important call at 3:00 A.M to the American Papist do
you think that he could say something funny at a moments notice.
I have the experience to be funny from day one!
Alive and Young has also responded.
I would respond to his angry post but my blog is all about
hope and change. The Curt Jester – Humor you can believe in.
Governor Spitzer what a maroon!
I guess he forgot to go to the Governor indoctrination
course. Surely if he had he would have realized that governors are
allowed to cheat on their wives. They are allowed to carry on
an affair for years and even have state troopers help you out gettting
new recruits. Governors can be adulterers all they want just
as long as they don’t hire a prostitute. In fact you can do
all this as a governor and later go on to be president. Or at
least I assume what the governor handbook must say.
Seriously thought my first response was to
pray for the man and his family (yes I am also amazed that this was my
first response so I guess Lent must not be a waste of time after all
this year.) Though my thoughts go downhill from there to some
extent. I do not exactly have joy at his resignation, but I can’t say I
am unhappy about it at all. I remember my first introduction
to him was that the first thing he did as Attorney General was to try
to close down crisis pregnancy centers. He is about as
unapologetically pro-abortion as they come and hardly even pretends to
mince words on the subject. The bill that he has declared a
top priority aim is to make abortion a fundamental right and to
eliminate any possible restrictions. The question now
becomes how much of a pro-abort is the new Governor? Though
it would be hard for him to be as pro-abortion as his predecesssor.
Catholic MPs were today given a strong
hint by Gordon Brown that they may be allowed to vote with their
conscience over the controversial Embryology Bill.
The Prime Minister pledged a traditional free vote on a bid to lower
the abortion limit, and for the first time suggested he may also give
way to demands from Catholic ministers not to force them to compromise
their religious beliefs over the rest of the Bill.
It is a pretty wacky world we live in when
an article talks about someone
being “allowed” to vore their conscience and to not be “forced” to vote
against their religious beliefs.
Kitchener — On Saturday, March 29,
2008 at 8:00 p.m. people around the world will turn off their lights
for just one hour — Earth Hour — to show it’s possible to take action
on climate change.
The Waterloo Catholic District School Board is fully supporting Earth
Hour as part of the Board’s overall sustainable development strategy.
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.
A Roman Catholic bishop will be forced
to explain himself to MPs today over fears that he is imposing
religious “fundamentalism” on children.
Patrick O’Donoghue, the Bishop of Lancaster, will be questioned over
his ban on what he calls “values-free” sex education in Catholic
schools in his diocese and his order to put up crucifixes in every
classroom.
His summons to appear before the House of Commons select committee on
children, schools and families follows a 66-page document he produced
last year which angered some MPs because of its strict line on sexual
morality.
In the document, called Fit for Mission?, Bishop O’Donoghue wrote: “The
secular view on sex outside marriage, artificial contraception,
sexually transmitted disease, including HIV and Aids, and abortion, may
not be presented as neutral information.”
He said “so-called” safe sex was based on the “deluded theory that the
condom can provide adequate protection against Aids”.
And he added: “Schools and colleges must not support charities or
groups that promote or fund anti-life policies, such as Red Nose Day
and Amnesty International, which now advocates abortion.”
Although sex education is mandatory in all secondary schools, Bishop
O’Donoghue insisted that in every lesson – even science classes – it
must be taught solely in the context of “the sacrament of marriage”.
… He said Whitehall’s sex education policies had failed and 30 years
of “throwing condoms at children” had simply resulted in increasing
levels of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Bishop O’Donoghue added: “But they (the MPs) see me as a fundamentalist
and that is a pejorative word these days with connotations of
terrorism, violence and irrationality. I will say I reject these
connotations
That is quite clear and concise
and the Bishop certainly seems “Fit for mission.”
Maybe Bishop O’Donoghue can give a pep
talk to Father Jenkins president of Notre Dame who once again explains
why the performances of the Vagina Monologues is an “indispensable part of the mission of a
Catholic University.“
