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I have decided to go with a new service. A real new service since I just
invented it called PrayPal. If you like my blog pray for me. If you don’t like
my blog then pray even harder. At first I considered PayolaPal, where I would
pay others to place me on their blogroll or to say nice things about my blog. I
also considered to pay people to view my blog, but after discussing this over
with my lawyer he thought it might afoul of the “Cruel and unusual punishment”
part of the constitution.

Disclaimer: This in no ways is meant to mock
those bloggers that use PayPal since their research and insights bring so much
to the St. Blogs community.

It is a s good thing that Victor Lams has reminded
us it’s talk like a pirate day, Arrrrrrrr. So here goes.
Matey, it is too
bad that Napster is gone but we still have so many wonderful choices like KaZaA,
Morpheus, WinMX and Grokster to ensure that no file is left unpirated.
Intellectual property, something some scurvy-dog of a lawyer came up with.
Shiver me-file shares, I can remember the old days of pirating disks and
cassettes me bucko and of course copying Styx’s “Pieces of Eight”. Now time to
leave the blog spot and get me grog and give someone a black spot.

Via Mark Brumley’s
blog there is a link to an
article of an interview with Fr. Fessio SJ on the current
crisis.

…A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that an Indiana law
requiring women to receive counseling before having an abortion was
constitutional, overturning a lower court decision.

The 1995 law requires abortion clinics to give women
information about alternative to abortion in the presence of a doctor or a nurse
18 hours before the abortion is scheduled to be performed. Opponents of the law
said it caused an undue burden on women by requiring them to make two trips to
the clinic.

Yes those wonderful so-called feminist were at it again, suing to prevent the
doctor from giving any information about health risks to woman before receiving
an abortion. Now if a pharmaceutical sued the government to prevent woman from
knowing ahead of time the risks involved in using their medicine, you know there
would be hell-to-pay and talk about greedy companies not caring about the health
of women. But if groups that make money from abortion sue the government for the
same thing, nothing is said. The term pro-choice is such a gigantic lie. Where
are the Planned Parenthood pregnancy centers for woman who want their children?
Where is the NOW woman’s healthcare clinic ensuring that women receive the
proper care during their pregnancies? The name Planned Parenthood is so
laughable, it is like what G.K. Chesterton said about term birth control, “No
birth and no control”.

A group calling themselves the
Voice of the Feeneyites (VOTF) have chained themselves to the pews of a Catholic
Church in Massachusetts. The spokesman for VOTF, Brother Yul B. Dammed, has
stated that they have split from the Saint Benedict Center because of their
liberal interpretation of Pope Eugene IV Bull Cantate Domino that outside
of the Catholic Church their is no salvation. The group claims that only those
who are physically inside of a Catholic Church will be saved and that those who
go outside of a Catholic Church have lost their salvation. A statement from
their spokeman reads “At the beginning of the Church they held Mass and were
buried in the catacombs. The saints and many clerics have been buried in the
church, so obviously they knew from apostolic tradition the true meaning of “no
salvation outside of the Catholic Church”. The new Cathedral in LA allows people
to be buried in the Cathedral so obviously Cardinal Mahoney realizes the true
meaning of this doctrine. We only want what is our right, to live and die in a
church and thus gain our salvation”. I contacted Brother Hugh Bris of the Saint
Benedict Center for an official statement, he replied “VOTF is a lunatic-fringe
group, obviously having such a narrow and rigorous view of this doctrine is
ridiculous.

If Jesus worked for petersnet.net
would he have said “Thus you will know them by their links”?

If Fox News was at the crucifixion would their motto have been “We report,
you deicide”?

Where did the word etymology come from?

Two days ago on Sean Roberts’ blog Swimming
the Tiber he posted about his experience of the first day in RCIA and
mentioned that he was given the Catechism and the book “Christ among us” by
Anthony Wilhelm. This is like combining matter and antimatter, when combined in
equal amounts they cancel each other out. When I was first going through my
conversion I picked this book up in a used book store and read through the whole
thing. I hadn’t done a great deal of reading in Catholic theology yet but my
crap detector issued warning bells. This book sold over a million copies but
finally the imprimatur was taking away from it, instead of fixing the errors
they reissued it without the imprimatur. But if you want to be a Catholic and
dissent from authority this is the book for you. Later on I through this book
away so that no unsuspecting soul would ever chance upon it.

I am glad
that I have read the parts of the Summa where St. Thomas Aquinas talks about how
everyone desires the good and that the actions we take are based upon that end.
Of course often times the good we choose is severely deficient from good that we
should choose. Anyway the reason I prefaced with this is that without knowing
this I would be thinking all kinds of uncharitable thoughts towards whoever is
responsible for providing this theological poison and would also probably
rash-judge this person or persons actions as trying to subvert the truth.

There are so many great books available that could be used as companions to
the Catechism and to give this junk to people who are examining our faith is a
travesty. I propose a new reality show, kind of like Survivor, where they film
the sessions of a modernist RCIA class and after teaching this drivel; whoever
is left who still want to become a Catholic wins.

Around the March of 1999, after having done a ton of reading, I was ready to
enter the Church and I contacted my pastor. He told me that I would have to wait
for the following year until I could attend RCIA since it was almost Easter.
That was a really really long year while I waited to finally enter the Church.
The RCIA at this parish wasn’t the most organized, but it was taught by people
who knew, loved and followed Christ. Catechetical materials are extremely
important but just as important was the obvious commitment to holiness that
these instructors showed. So thank God for them and for all the faithful people
who teach the faith to people throughout the world.

LISBON, Sep 16, 02 (CWNews.com) – Portugal’s Catholic
bishops are resisting plans by the country’s government to move all public
holidays to Mondays or Fridays to end the common practice of the “four-day
weekend” when those holidays fall on Thursdays or Tuesdays.

Good Monday just wouldn’t sound right.

1542�1621, Italian theologian, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, and a
principal influence in the Counter-Reformation.

I dislike it when Catholic historians use the Protestant invented term
“Counterreformation” and I prefer the term Catholic Reformation much better;
especially since it denotes what really happened. And while I am ranting, I am
also not thrilled with Roman Catholic. This term was invented by Anglicans to
define a branch of Catholicism. I also don’t like any modifiers to the word
Catholic because they all limit it to mean something less. The terms
conservative Catholic, or orthodox Catholic should not really be needed, but in
this day-and-age are added since the term Catholic is now applied to mean almost
everything. This is kind of ironic since the word means universal. I am a
Catholic of the Latin Rite, enough said.