{"id":5732,"date":"2012-04-30T16:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:03:48","slug":"vain-attempts-at-making-monday-more-tolerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2012\/04\/vain-attempts-at-making-monday-more-tolerable.html","title":{"rendered":"Vain attempts at making Monday more tolerable …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026 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. <\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/saintkitsch.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Saint Kitsch \u2013 Celebrating all that is wonderfully awful in the world of Catholic Kitsch<\/a>. <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/badvestments.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bad Vestments<\/a> \u2013 Dedicated to subjecting particularly awful Christian liturgical vestments or church decorations to the ridicule they so richly deserve. <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lolsaints.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LOLSaints<\/a><\/p>\nNow behold! Gaze into the penetrating stare of Velvet Jesus. \n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/04\/be-afraid.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/04\/be-afraid.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"be afraid\" width=\"565\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5733\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2026 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 \u2013 Celebrating all that is wonderfully awful in the world of Catholic Kitsch. 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