… Because I know first hand how generous Catholics are. This is Harper. Her new adoptive family is hoping to raise $15,000 for travel and facilitation fees to bring Harper home as soon as possible so she can get medical attention. You see, Harper has HIV and HepC. She needs to make the trip from Eastern Europe to her new home here so she can get the regular medical attention she needs. To raise this money, Vera is hosting a... Read more
… For your consideration; a big metal statue of St. Thomas Aquinas made entirely out of old car bumpers. Located in front of St. Thomas Aquinas church in Charlottesville, Va. Read more
On Sunday, activists from the Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers, a lay Russian Orthodox organisation, dispersed a group of protesters gathered in downtown Moscow near the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour by dealing with them in a distinctively brutal and Russian way; dousing them with Holy Water. Read more
… a return to a very popular weekly feature. Prego, ladies. Read more
… Catholics love kitsch. This is no secret. We are the proud creators of some of the best sentimental cheap plastic crap ever to be manufactured from China. Here are some blogs celebrating our profoundly poor taste. Saint Kitsch – Celebrating all that is wonderfully awful in the world of Catholic Kitsch. Bad Vestments – Dedicated to subjecting particularly awful Christian liturgical vestments or church decorations to the ridicule they so richly deserve. LOLSaints Now behold! Gaze into the penetrating... Read more
… Spoiler Alert, some one is getting married – someone besides Sanctimonious Matthew and I-Always-Get-What-I-Want Mary. If you like nice surprises then don’t follow link. If you are like me and utterly impatient then, by all means, click away. Read more
Why do I write? Because I have to. There was never a time in my life where I wasn’t compulsively writing or keeping some type of journal. Cleaning out my closet last year I realized I have kept a written log of my life since I was 7 years old. It’s impossible to believe I had so much to say, and that there continues to be even more yet to be said. Will I ever shut up? My mentor is... Read more
… I have poison ivy. Really bad. Like deformed arms, grotesque, mutant freak bad. Like shield your children’s eyes from my sight bad. And I am miserable. Oh, so miserable. And itchy. Gnawing off my arms would more tolerable than having to endure any more. So I did what any wussy person who cannot tolerate the slightest bit of discomfort does – go to the doctor and cry for meds. Topical numbing creams and pills to help me sleep, please.... Read more
… who get their joy from tearing down others and pitting Catholic against Catholic? If I were a non-Catholic reading certain blogs I certainly wouldn’t be compelled to investigate Catholicism. Miserable, wretched lot. Catholics, we have the fullness of faith. Rejoice! Related Link: Oh my! For those claiming I sold out who need a reminder And a note about commenting, cowardly anonymous comments, and the likes. I don’t have to tolerate bullies in my own living room, and I won’t. Read more
… When my son told me the children’s choir was performing Lord of the Dance at mass this weekend I was a tab bit confused… The Boy: No, it’s a real song. The Mom: Really? A song called ‘Lord of the Dance’? Will there be tambourines involved? The Boy: Noooooo. Just a guitar maybe. The Mom: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Well, let’s hear this ‘Lord of the Dance’ The Boy:♩♪♫♬ I danced in the morning when the world was begun.... Read more
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