http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110008620
Mark A. Noll,
OpinionJournal.com
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/14275167p-15084813c.html
Cal Thomas
http://relapsedcatholic.blogspot.com/2006/07/court-forbids-cutting-nudity-profanity.html
relapsed catholic
I think I'll buy a laser printer this Christmas.
"Holy Father in Heaven, please sanctify this purchase with the blessings of fruitful and inexpensive toner. Amen."
Religious humor found at the pages of Snopes.com:
A monastery in the English countryside has fallen on hard times, and the monks decide to open a fish-and-chips restaurant.A visitor comes across two monks working in the monastery kitchen in preparation for the restaurant's grand opening. The first monk fries the fish, the second one peels, slices, and fries the potatoes.
"What are you guys doing?" asks the visitor.
"Well," says the monk frying the fish, "I am the friar, and he is the chip monk."
Over at relapsed catholic, Kathy is ranting about movies again. (I'd linked to her earlier post Tuesday.) And her rant is as artful as her message is about art.
UPDATE: I'd almost missed a previous post, also about movies - but with more of a quoted snark and less of a personal rant. The last line she reads from libertas is some pretty good (and conservative!) art in its own right.
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2006/07/notice_to_all_i.html
Ignatius Insight Scoop
Just to prove to our friends on the Left that TBR and TBM are not simply an organ of right-wing-never-does wrong propaganda (as The Ugly American jokes), and to rebut the inevitable anti-Catholic rhetoric (thanks heaps Dahvid), I must take note of a disgraceful episode Thursday night regarding Mel Gibson. Apparently, the actor/director got blinding drunk, got caught DUI, and during the arrest repeatedly spouted anti-Semitic remarks. I'll let others get more detailed, and for my part simply and completely repudiate all Gibson's insane nonsense.
Unfortunately, those of us - especially we Catholics - who defended Gibson in the past will be hurt by association here, regardless of what we say. His tirade makes it appear that all the evil designs that he denied while making The Passion of the Christ were actually true. He brings scandal to the Church, and our cries that Catholics aren't really secret anti-Semites - despite some terrible things we've been associated with in the past - will fall on even more deafened ears.
We can only repeat that this is not the case, renounce Gibson's drunken antics, and beg the forgiveness of the Jewish people for any real or perceived insults of the past.