Per Christum

The Venerable Carolina Cannonball informs:

The installation of Reginald Weller as Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, WI on November 18, 1900 caused a bit of scandal. It was labeled the ‘Fond Du Lac Circus’ because the traditionally vested episcopalian bishops looked a bit too “popish”.

As a matter of fact, “The liturgical use of the mitre was revived in the Church of England in the latter part of the 19th century, and is now fairly widespread.“

I think it has had a good run… after 100ish years, it might be time to retire that trend and move on…

H/T: http://mcj.bloghorn.com/

Vatican signs agreement with Andorra.

I think it is pretty safe to say that anyone who ever played Risk as a child well knows that he who has Andorra on his side is utterly unstoppable.

Save yourself some misery, just give up now.

Stuff White People Like: #89 Saint Patrick’s Day

A funny read from one of the internet’s most popular blogs right now. I wrote about it before - with satire it skewers mercilessly a certain subset of yuppies and consumerists.

I found this one extra entertaining for the experiences I have had in working in bars and restaurants on this holiday. My time in a Scottish Pub in Ohio was the worst. In March we played up the “pan-Celtic”… played down the Scots nationalism. To a green beer drinking demographic, I am not sure we didn’t “all look alike” (and while seeing double no less!) Read the rest of this entry »

Lest anyone think that antipopes are a thing of the past*, I give you Pius XIII. He is pictured here standing in front of his version of the Vatican…

Here’s hoping he goes the way of Saint Hippolytus… that is to say he becomes reconciled to the Church, not that he dies a horrible martyr’s death!

For more great photos, check out 3d Blog From the Right.

*Well, actually they kind of are… An antipope by definition, makes effort to suppress the legitimate Pope and is a cause of confusion… At this time, I don’t think many are all that confused, or that P13 is managing to much suppress B16…

[Originally posted March 10 by ASimpleSinner at the old blog address.]

Once, when riding a MUNI bus in San Francisco, I noticed a group of blue-turbaned fellows getting on with their kirpaans. I immediately thought, “Ah, Sikh transit! Gloria MUNI.”

- Tim Ferguson in the combox over at The Cafeteria is Closed.

A great deal of misinformation has been circulating about the web as to the nature of the kirpan that Sikhs wear about their person… Lest people think of modern Sikhs as some wild armed faction, it might be good to talk about the kirpan…

The ceremonial dagger is, as often as not, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and is worn underneath clothing on the thigh. I knew a gent when I was in college who gave a lecture in a sociology class about his Sikh faith… It was revealed he wore his underneath his clothing and it was rather small. When asked if we could see it, he smiled and declined… he was not interested in undoing his pants, and showing us his drawers to access it…

In all actuality, if someone had started some trouble, for him to reach for this would have entailed dropping his trousers to access it before taking on some miscreant with a small knife and his pants around his ankles.

Not very threatening is it?

In all reality most are about as dangerous as the pocket knives every red-blooded American school boy would have ALWAYS had on them in the 50s & 60s (before they would have been arrested for possession of a weapon!)… A practice my father - who never leaves the house without his altar boy rosary, wallet, and pocket knife - carries on today.

(I used to keep a small Swiss Army knife in my wallet… I lost the wallet. Now I am mostly known to travel with a wine-key/bottle opener for party emergencies…)

It is worth noting that well before 9/11 it was the practice of any Sikh who was flying to simply pack the ceremonial dagger in his checked luggage, and confirm that he had done so with security who were trained to know about this custom and were respectful of it.

So as a radical moderate on this one, let me point out that NO, they are not sword wielding extremists with daggers stained in blood like wild-eyed soldiers of fortune… and NO it isn’t that unreasonable for the Secret Service (the party responsible for US security) to ask that they check them at the door before a 45 minute meeting with the Pope in the same fashion they get check them at the airport for 10+ hour flights overseas.

Tiber Jumper over at his blog, Crossed the Tiber, has a hilarious tribute to the eternal verities of Catholicism in the form of a modified evangelical tent revival hymn, Old Time Religion sung in Baptist, Foursquare and many other independent churches that dot the southern regions of the land. Enjoy!

Tiber Jumper is a physician and a talented musician. He has been featured on EWTN’s “Journey Home.” His blog is definitely worth some visits.

You can’t even worship giant teapots in Indonesia any longer?

Is outrage!

H/T: Standing on my head

Voting has begun! Congratulations to all who were nominated!

(Here at PC we have our sights set on 2009…)

Posted by Shawn Tribe over at the New Liturgical Movement…

The caption referred to it as “The Nun’s Church”.

Am I alone in thinking that this church - in its pictured condition - would be a vast improvement over a number of chapels in use today? I wouldn’t mind to see Sr. Joan Chittister have one just like it!

H/T: American Papist

Soutwest Airlines Bans Two Girls Who Are Too Pretty!

Southwest Airlines, responding to claims by two female passengers that they were discriminated against because of their good looks and banned from future flights, released a statement via YouTube disputing their story, adding that it doesn’t have the ability to selectively ban passengers, “even if we wanted to.”

“We would be out of business if we banned pretty people from Southwest Airlines,” spokeswoman Brandy King said. “The two passengers that are referenced in the media were using vulgar language, aggressive behavior, threatening gestures at 30,000 feet.”
Click here to watch the video.

University of South Florida student Nisreen Swedberg and her friend Sarah Williams claimed the flight crew was rude to them throughout their flight from Tampa Bay to Los Angeles on Feb. 14, TampaBays10.com reported.

“I think they were just discriminating against [us] because we were young decent-looking girls,” Williams told TampaBays10.com. “I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us. [The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger.”

‘Too Pretty’ College Students Escorted From Flight

They were released about two hours after the plane landed, and no charges were filed.

photo: TampaBay10.com

Oh girls, don’t I know it!

You see gentle readers - all 12 of you - ASimpleSinner is so beautiful himself he dare not put his photo in his profile as as his avatar… The hate I feel as a pretty person day in and day out is almost too much to deal with. I get detained for hours after every flight I make because I am so gorgeous! Normal people (or as we beautiful people call you “normies”) never understand this personal hell.

I know this is a slight change of pace from my regular posting habits. I do make effort to keep all posts related to our Catholic faith in some fashion. When I saw this though, I just had to post it in solidarity with these two fellow beautiful people. Raising awareness about “beautiphobia” is very important to me. (Truly, it is a social justice issue.)

It had been my intent to write about the seven deadly sins today. For good measure, I will at least mention them. They are:

• Lust
• Gluttony
• Greed
• Sloth
• Wrath
• Envy
• and…..

Damn. What was the last one? I am just too beautiful to remember all these things!

A man joined the priesthood. The order he joined could not speak for 7 years.Then they could only say 2 words.

The first 7 years passed and they went into a small room.

His 2 words were “too cold”.

The next 7 years passed and they took him back into the small room and his 2 words were “bad food”.

The next 7 years passed and they took him back into the small room and his 2 words were “I quit”.

Good they said, “all you have done is complain.”

H/T: Clerical Whispers

A great blog: Stuff White People Like

You are going to have to forgive me, dear 12 readers… But having stumbled upon this blog (H/T: A Conservative Blog for Peace) I had to share it.

The blog makes fun of a good deal of the “enlightened” materialistic culture and the fun quirks of those in the throws thereof.

Reading through the all-too-true musings of the authors on “stuff white people like” caused me no small amount of satisfaction. This “whitey” with a neon-lilly-white posterior, could have written just about everything he (or she?) covers (and more) after my time living in California. The “white people” being skewered are definately of the “enlightened coastal” variety. Keep that in mind.

The culture of death, starts where the culture of enlightenment and materialism meet.

Laugh away. Then be a little sad.