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What are you doing NOW, IC?
Greetings, all! Enjoy some of my most-enjoyed humorous and thought-provoking posts and sightings from the blogosphere. If you want to suggest a post, feel free--click on the suggest button (see those tabs up top). You can follow this little "Catholic humor and more" museum through the RSS feed--see the cute button next to the description? And of course I'll try to do my own stuff at The Ironic Catholic, http://www.ironiccatholic.com . Laugh, think, and enjoy. --IC Go beyond chocolate! Past years' efforts can be found at the title link.
Even more cool things to give up for Lent, starting this Wednesday, Feb 22:
1. chap stick
BONUS: contraception! It's so darned topical these days. Kind of awkward to share at the water cooler on Wednesday, though. Also, doesn't work as well for priests and religious.
p.s. Chic (CHild of the Ironic Catholic) #2 wanted me to do a poll. See sidebar at the left of the blog and put your vote in! 
Heaven: By definition, everything is good and right in heaven. But it doesn't mean that saints don't have feelings.
That's the message that has been leaked by Slavonic members of the heavenly chorus this February 14th: although they don't begrudge the honoring of Saint Valentine this day, the communion of saints think Cyril and Methodius would like a card or prayer or two.
"The thing is, we all know Valentine. And he's a great man, a martyr and a great saint. But you know, Cyril and Methodius were great evangelists who brought the liturgy to the Slavic peoples at great costs. Cyril even created the Cyrillic alphabet, for Pete's sake, and they promoted Mass in the vernacular about 1000 years before it was popular. We all know they have received their reward, but they may like a fancy card too, don't you think?" said a saint who preferred to remain anonymous in order to give the glory to God alone.
[more at the title, click through] The video! Every time I see a nun I want to hug her. But that's just crazy. You can't hug every nun. 
When it comes to the image of fire in Christianity, DIRECTION IS EVERYTHING. 
100. Christian Initiation is more involved than just signing into the membership book at the church office.
more to come.... 
There is a metaphor in this somewhere.... "Stuff Presbyterian Seminarians Say"--click the title for the video.
(an ecumenical humor moment)
HT Mark Shea. 
Open letter to then Sen. Obama, on the anniversary of Roe v Wade--one of my darker irony pieces from the 2008 campaign on abortion.
Click at the title to read. 
...Well if you want to hear that still small voice than the new SSV-33 full spectrum distraction analyzer is the product for you!...
More fine parody at the link (click title). |
Please click through to read--this one is a howler. God bless Mrs. Dolan! 
Beginning this week, listeners who donate to National Public Radio member stations will have more than the usual organic cotton tote bags and “Car Talk” bumper stickers to choose from as thank-you gifts. Now, they can opt for an official NPR “Kick a Catholic!” t-shirt as well.
“We’re always looking for new incentives for our pledge drives,” said NPR promotions director Frank Byast. “People like things that are a fun twist on the news, so we think the ‘Kick a Catholic!’ thank you gifts will be a big hit. No pun intended.”
The shirt and mug were inspired by NPR’s “Kick a Catholic Week,” the brainchild of NPR reporters forced to cover the controversy generated by the Obama administration’s mandate that Catholic institutions pay for contraceptives and abortifacients.
“We thought, ‘Okay, we can’t ignore this anymore, so how can we have fun with it?’” said Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. “That’s the nice thing about a story like this. When one side is so clearly wrong, you’re a little less concerned about being fair and balanced. It’s like covering the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. You’re not going to ‘balance out’ your coverage by interviewing Nicolae Ceaușescu, right? It’s the same with the Catholic bishops.”
[more at the title link....]
Suddenly Hallmark looks sane. These are seriously creepy Valentines, folks. There are more (with Allen's apt commentary) when you click the image....
p.s. this is what happens when the Saint gets separated from the feast day! 
Every month or so, I check my blog stats, and discover that someone who ... Via Fr. Christian Mathis 
Washington, DC, April 19, 1847: The U.S. administration, after considering a conscientious objection exemption for religious institutions, decided that Catholics institutions must pay a “forced servanthood fee” for employees who wish to own slaves, up to $1,000 a slave per year.
“It is the law of many states that slavery is legal, and white men are free to own slaves. Indeed, most white men want to own slaves, seeing how abolitionists are treated like village idiots. So it seems natural and fully American that we should force Catholic institutions in slave states to facilitate owning others, and potentially killing them if they do not fit their needs. We won’t make parishes comply because we don’t think they own slaves anyway, but every other Church affiliated institution, you have a year to change your entire moral system to suit,” argued the Secretary of Health and Human Slavery, Mr. Charles Moore.
Catholic Bishops responded with outrage, arguing the mandate trespasses the freedom of religion clause in the constitution, by forcing them to act in opposition to their doctrine. However, many people on Twitter said “They just hate slave owners and the Southern way of life, grow up #freaks”, so that must be true.
... [more at the title link] 
90. Those Chick Tracts make splendid kindling at CYO camps. 87. The words "clown" and "eucharist" are never mentioned in the same sentence.
to be continued.... 
Cool.
A Cathedral of Light (it's an art piece, not a real Cathedral, but still...). 
The other fun part of 10,000 Gun Questions Night is keeping it strictly Catholic. I often hear a double complaint about the Church:
And if so, why don’t we have a firm teaching on everything?
As if it were somehow more logical to worship a god who gave out brains and then refused to let you use them. [Catholic moral theology tip: If God gives you something, He's got a plan for how it's supposed to be used. Thy body is not a knick knack.] 
Chapter 15 Study Guide
Key terms, people, events, places:
1. Serfs: Rides the ocean waves on a long board.
2. Humanism: Belief in the existence of humans -- "A human is, um..."
3. Imperialism: Going to Burger King in ancient Rome.
4. Czar: The wrong way to spell "car."
[more at the link--click title] 
"Since prayer opens our minds to the brightness of divine light and our will to the warmth of heavenly love, nothing so purges our mind of ignorance and our will of evil desires; its sacred waters refreshes the soul, wash away our imperfections, revive the flowers of our good desires and quench the thirst of our hearts' passions".
- St Francis de Sales, from the Introduction to the Devout Life, which is one of my favourite spiritual writings.
Today, 24 January, is the feast of the great bishop of Geneva, and doctor of the Church, St Francis de Sales. 
In a discovery that explained the soaring costs of gasoline, scientists at the French Institute of Applied Science and Research found that the elements of 99% of gas sold at the pump to be pure Mammon.... |
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