Christian tropers, join together!

complete with creepy mechanical breathing.

edited 18th Mar '13 10:30:36 AM by crimsonstorm15

News time:

It turned out that Polish Archbishop Głódź hosted parties nearly everyday on which he got drunk heavily, and humiliated and insulted his subordinates. And this man dares to call other people immoral just because they protest against building a church in place because it would endanger nearby buildings.

People like him probably seretly pissed in their pants when they discovered that the new pope is hell bent on being modest.

edited 18th Mar '13 10:52:04 AM by CaptainKatsura

just thought i'd start up a little tradition for this thread.

i'm gonna post something inspirational from a website i frequent. expect one each day, starting today.

here's another one.

going for the prize.

This year's Lent: Failed.

Note to myself: Keep it few and simple.

edited 22nd Mar '13 9:21:18 PM by dRoy

I indirectly made my crush fail the Lent. It's a long story...

hopefully, this will cheer you up.

let it go.

Well, what do you know, apparently you can eat beavers during Lent.

Wonder how it goes for women.

i see why one can, but i fail to see why one would want to.

Roy, remind me to smite you one of these days for making a joke like that before Easter.

Worth it.

too heavy.

our father's world.

http://www.jeffersonscott.com/nonfiction/ufos.htm#Argument

If E Ts exist and land here one day, they should stay away from such people to avoid exorcisms.

out of context.

There is a beautiful short story by Dino Buzzati (one of the best Italian writers of the last century, in my opinion) concerning Christianity and aliens.

I cannot find it translated online, and I am not going to spoil it here: but if you happen to find in a library Dino Buzzati's "Restless Nights" book, look for the "The Saucer Has Landed" story, it is magnificent.

edited 27th Mar '13 7:43:55 AM by Carciofus

Haven't read a good alien story in a while so I might chexk it out.

Currently reading Hosea.

You know what, I am getting really tired of this whole adultery/idolatory comparison. I really want to get this section over with.

I was browsing North Korea and regarding Posthumous Character, I found this bit:

The Catholic Church is also using this trope to show that it doesn't forget about its enemies: it's calling Francis Hong Yong-ho, who was disappeared in 1949 and would now be well over a hundred years old, the Bishop of Pyongyang and leader of the Catholic Church in North Korea until the North Koreans tell them different. In fact, it gave him a promotion in 1962, thirteen years after he was last seen alive. The North Korean government has taken this badly, and is now denying that any such person ever existed.

I am not getting what's going on here.

I don't know either.

I missed Palm Sunday last Sunday (was think of it, even if just because Waiting for Godot which we are doing in class, had a bit about the two thieves with Jesus and one getting saved but not in all versions), and probably am not going to Church on Good Friday (the schedule just doesn't work out, don't have much of excuse for last Sunday though).

Judging from Wikipedia: Francis Hong Yong-ho was the Vicar Apostolic of Pyongyang until, in 1942, he was captured and "disappeared", together with basically all the Catholic clergy of North Korea.

Now, since North Korea is not going to admit that they murdered him, and since the Church nominating officially someone else would just put that person in the sights of the North Korea government, Francis Hong Yong-ho was still "officially" the Vicar Apostolic of Pyongyang. In 1962, Pyonyang was turned from a Vicariate Apostolic to a Diocese — that is, the Church declared officially that Pyongyang is not just a missionary region, but has a well-established Catholic population that should be administered by a local Bishop — and nominated Francis Hong Yong-ho as the first Bishop of Pyonyang, even though, of course, he was certainly long dead by then. And since he was never officially declared dead, he's still technically the Bishop.

If I understand the matter correctly — but I am not sure if I do — this is a snub towards the North Korean government, as well as an encouragement towards whatever Catholics may be left there. But I don't really know much about these matters.

edited 28th Mar '13 5:07:45 PM by Carciofus

Ah. Color me surprised.

edited 28th Mar '13 5:07:44 PM by dRoy