Karen Hall is having a caption contest, so go there and add your own.
Here are some of my suggestions.
- "I know there is a tabernacle somewhere in the Cathedral."
- "Have you seen my moral compass?" (I stole that one from the tagline of Karen’s old blog Disordered Affections)
- "I know I left my faith around here somewhere."
- "Quick hide – the Pope is coming!"
- "The Cardinal takes cover as several whirling liturgical dances spin out of control"
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If you feel making fun of a Bishop while he is performing a rite of the Church is okay then go ahead and cast those stones at him. There isn’t any chance of harm in it, is there?
1. Damn it! Where’d I put that copy of GIRM? Never mind, I’ll just celebrate Mass without it.
2. “Let us break bread together on our knees…”
3. Ah ha! Just as we all have suspected for quite some time, this photo proves that, indeed, Card. Mahony HAS lost his faith (or is that “his way”? or both?). “Oh, where, oh where has my Cath’lic faith gone? Oh where, oh where can it be…”
4. The Cardinal starts checking every nook and cranny of the new Cathedral for the least whiff of orthodoxy.
His Eminence looks for loose change to offset the $1B in settlements expected in clergy abuse cases.
1. Simon says “bark”.
2. Your Eminence, your praying toward Mecca is not really likely to reduce the terrorist threat.
3. Your Eminence, that isn’t a phone booth and what’s more, you’re not Clark Kent.
Would someone PLEASE find something else to stick under this altar to keep it from tipping over?!
This cross really *IS* heavy!
“Like I suspected, this floor is indeed perfect to write a pentagram on!” Said Cardinal Mahony to a visiting group of Pagan Priestesses at Our Lady of the Angles Cathedral, after personally inspecting the facilities for the upcoming Pagan Mass Ceremony.
“When did I persecute you, Lord?”
**Look!!! I’ve found another part of the Da Vinci code!
**Help, I’ve fallen, and I’m going to take the rest of you with me.
**Just as I thought! GUM!!!
**Bishop superglues head to bottom of alter. News at 6.
**Bishop caught making an under the table payoff.
**Is that angel gold flake, or solid gold?
“I humbly bow before the altar of my Most High God, to whom this altar has been consecrated. On this holy altar, the mystery of the Cross is forever perpetuated…”
“Domine, non sum dignus…”
Actually the moral compass line was from one of Karen’s many previous weblogs (She’s had 5, according to my count)
Ok- so what really was happening in that picture?
I believe the Cardinal is placing relics in/near the altar of the LA Cathedral.
That purple thing in my back really hurts!
I saw a bunny rabbit hop under here…
O.K., I have to admit I feel squeamish when I see this photo. I hope, as Amy said, he’s actually installing a sacred relic and NOT that he accidentally dropped the Blessed Sacrament on the floor and someone captured him scrambling on the floor to look for it.
There’s the lever that opens the secret trapdoor into the dungeon!
**Help, I’ve fallen, and I’m going to take the rest of you with me.**
Ohh that was funny.
Now where’d that wafer roll to?
The good cardinal has decided to crawl back under the rock he crawled out of, to the joy and jubilation of millions!
“I am not worthy even to look upon your face, oh my God”.
Yes, the photo was taken during the dedication liturgy. The Holy Relics are being installed beneath the consecrated altar.
…and the Lord said, “get down and give me twenty.”
“Now where did that labyrinth go?”
Oh, curse my bad knees.
Somebody give me a rag, I found a dirty spot.
Ugh, my pallium is weighing me down.
This is a comment to all the posters:
Stop the humiliating comments. It is not good for your soul. You cause others outside of the Church to look at us and say “they make fun of their own leaders!”
St. Benedict said “The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience, which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all”
Yet Chesterton said “the test of a good religion is whether or not it can laugh at itself.”
+Mahony is my bishop… but I don’t much mind him. Obedience is owed to higher authorities first and communion can only be had when there is a common grounding in truth. Mahony deserves a little mockery
IT’S OFFICIAL
Liturgical Planners To Introduce Yoga Poses
LOS ANGELES, July 13, 2005 (AP) – His Emminence demonstrates “ardha kurmasana” or Half-Tortoise Pose, which will now be used by the priest celebrant when praying on behalf of the people.
These days, I think we’d look a lot worse to outsiders if we defended our leaders!
Definitely agree about the test of a good religion being whether it can laugh at itself. I grew up among Baptists who–even when they were a barrel of laughs on other subjects–were utterly humorless on the subject of religion; I was nearly thirty years old before I heard a Baptist tell a Baptist joke–and he was largely disaffected at the time. Contrast that with Catholics. When I was a teenager I was in a hospital waiting room and overheard a Catholic priest tell some people he was visiting the joke about the drive-thru confessional. It gave me a giggle and favorably impressed me with his ability to be lighthearted. Many Catholics seem able to laugh at themselves like that. That’s *one* of the reasons why, even when I greatly disliked Christianity as a whole, I thought Catholicism was preferable to most of Protestantism.
Was it Chesterton or Belloc who said, “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s love and laughter and good red wine”? I say keep it up; let the people who aren’t confident in having the fullness of truth try to impress people with their dour faces.
Stop judging, that you may not be judged.
For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye?
You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Man, y’all are too sensitive. If you don’t like humor, find another blog. The title “Curt Jester” kind of hints at what kind of smart-alec commentary you’re going to read here…
Captions:
“Where do they keep the tabernacle in this place?”
“Maybe if I hide under here the lightening won’t hit me…”
“Son of a gun… we’ve put the altar right on top of a fault line!”
“Let’s see, the instructions on the back of the Declaration of Independence said to place my Masonic ring into the secret keyhole…”
It was Belloc, Suzanne. My college roommate had a framed copy on the wall.
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There�s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I�ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
Hilaire Belloc
Quick, hide; the boss is coming.
The cleaner’ missed a bit again I see.
If this cathedral hadn’t cost so much to put up, we could have afforded to employ some cleaners as well.
Darn! That’s the third time today I banged my head.
Goodness; I never noticed that before.
Holy Catholics! Open the trapdoor and into the Batcave, Robin.
Holy General Motors! Have you got the keys to the Batmobile Robin, or have I lost them again?
My father, why didn’t you let the stonemason crawl under to install the relics? He’s much more agile than you are! Please don’t clunk your head on the way back out!
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I think that I need to go eat lunch; when I read the last paragraph of Wodamark’s quote, I could SWEAR that the first line said “do not give them hot dogs….”
mmmmm….hot dogs….wait, so you say he’s looking for a run away hot dog? That little sucker got away!( Do you think he uses food stamps?)
Good heavens, did you not read the header for this blog Wodamark? Punditry, parody, polemics, politics, puns from a Papist perspective. We poke fun at our selves and the clergy. My parish priest finds most of these posts absolutly hilarious. This blog is obviously not for you. Plus, Jesus must have a fairly good sense of humor. He made me.
Okay, Curt Jester, who wins the contest???
While I enjoy a good laugh along with everyone, I think that some of the comments were a little strong. Some were personal attacks on the Cardinal, while some were jokes about a serious issue of the clergy abuse cases. I’m willing to poke fun at myself, but not to poke fun at my Cardinals, even if I disagree with them. I would just ask that the captions people come up with not be so much about him as they are about the picture. Let’s not be insultive, but humorus.