True Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter: Offend a Feminist Week!

Something you may be interested at the blog of Prodigal Daughter

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Some who stumble upon this dusty little blog may wonder, what is National Offend a Feminist Week and how did it start?

Well, it begins with a brilliant reporter named Robert Stacy McCain.

You see, McCain started this “celebratory week” of tweaking feminists back in 2009. It’s all in fun, but also a great excuse to focus on why many of us hate feminism. And by “us,” I’m referring mostly to women. Because we absolutely hate the fact that so many feminists want to lop all women together in supporting the most destructive ideology ever created since the dawn of time. No wonder Marxists love them. Angry, jealous, bitter misery loves company.

And so, I’m going to do something I’ve never done before with this blog.

I’m going to write an entry every day this week about why feminism sucks.

Yep. I’m not pulling punches and at times it may even get down and dirty. But what do I care? No one is sponsoring me so if anyone has an issue with what I say, they can boycott Blogger. (Take that, Google!)

The Bible & Homosexuality: a response to Savage

Jimmy Akin has taken it upon himself to not only listen to Savage’s speech at a school which is littered with foul language, but to give a clear and sound response.

Homosexual activist Dan Savage recently was invited to give a keynote address to a group of high school students at a high school journalism conference.

You may make your own inferences regarding what this shows about the national associations in question, given the controversial, foul-mouthed history of Savage.

During the course of the event, Savage began a vulgarity-laced rant against the Bible and its teachings on homosexuality.

A significant portion of his audience, which included students from Christian schools, then walked out on him in protest (or disgust, or outrage, etc.).

In response, he suggested they were “pansy *ssed” for being unable to handle his pushback.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/how-to-respond-to-dan-savage-on-homosexuality-and-the-bible/#ixzz1tYO4QNhU

of breaking the legs of sheep

As harsh as it may sound, Shepherd’s do practice breaking sheep’s legs to keep them near.

Consider the following from Fr. Blake’s -

I remember hearing about a school inspector telling a class of Yorkshire children the parable about the Good Shepherd, then asking them what their dad’s, most of whom were sheep farmers what there dads would do. One little girl said, “Sir, ‘e’ll shoot the b*gger, once one runs, he’ll teach the rest of ‘em to run”.

Jewish shepherds would leave the flock, and go in search of the lost one, the reason why he would carry it on his shoulder is because he would break or dislocate its leg, which meant until it healed the shepherd needed to carry it around.

The important thing was that whilst it was getting better it was also learning to stay with he flock and while it was disabled it could not teach the rest of the flock to run and it itself learnt to listen to and follow the shepherd.

So what do we do with sheep who run off from the flock and teach others to do the same? In the past we might have called them heretics, now we call them dissidents, redolent of the political prisoners of the Soviet Gulags. The problem is that they remain to teach others to leap the fence, indeed, their role as “dissident” seems to give them importance in the secular world, and the “Liberal Catholic” establishment to comment on the Church and to condemn it.

This reminds me of the story of a young revert who found himself in a Church with a broken leg.  He couldn’t run away from the message.  Well, not very well.  Did God break his leg as the Shepherd’s do some sheep?  I am inclined to think NO.  But I do know he uses all things, ALL THINGS, to bring about goodness.  He was recycling and reusing before people made it trendy.

Yesterday, we heard much of the same for our Good Shepherd Sunday but one new thing I noticed.  He added a line about paying attention to who is doing the telling almost alluding to that even though people may get some things wrong, as we have in this diocese on a number of things, they meant the best.  There was no malice in their intention.  Fair enough.  They may have been given the material to teach and had no clue it contained errors.  No fault on them.

You know how you wait and wait for them to finally say “it”?  Whatever IT is, be it discussing birth control, or our inadequate catechises.  I am not waiting on the edge of my seat this time but praying he has the courage to say what ever it is he is trying to explain.  If not, and if you speak too generally, you get left with “Someone, somewhere did something and it caused something else to happen somewhere else. “  And we can all have a zzzz fest.

 

 

 

Beauty

Your name is Beauty.  You were not chosen.   Why did it make you sad when they didn’t see your beauty?  Your value can not be judged by all.  It would be similar to me saying one flower were more beautiful than the other.  Don’t make it stop you from being beautiful nor what makes you Beauty.

this wound (poem)

this wound (poem).

Spammers beware

One thing I like about WordPress is they are fine tuning the art of detecting spam.  Take this as a new catch of the day:

Spammers:  get a better translator and get a life.  When you want to advertise in your supposed criticisms, you need to be able to articulate your argument.  There is no argument as my post you tried to spam under, is just a suggestion – idea!  Because I know you will never read this, but only spam, I can only add THANKS WordPress for keeping me spam free!

 

Fun Friday – of fallacies and Commie Comic Creepers

If you get into debates, here is something for your wall!  To get someone to follow those, is as hard as the original 10 Commandments!  From Aggie Catholics, Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Error!.

OH NOz!  I HAZ been COMIK BOOK IZED!

Can I have  a refund?

Fr. Joe (Tonos) from Southern Fried Catholicism recently expressed his exasperation at my claims, which he took as paranoia, and put up a funny comic.  I don’t know Fr well, but I am familiar with criticism.  Living with an artist, I am fully aware of how you should treat artists who may go on one day to paint scenes in Churches also.  Dare we forget this one religious who objected to his resemblance being forever immortalized in the ghastly scene of part of the Last Judgement?

The Last Judgement

 ”Baigio da Cesena, a papal master of ceremonies, criticized Michelangelo’s work saying that nude figures had no place in such a sacred place, and that the paintings would be more at home in a public tavern.

Michelangelo included da Cesena in the Last Judgement as Minos, one of the three judges of the underworld. When Baigio complained to the Pope the pontiff explained that he had no jurisdiction over hell and that the portrait would have to remain.”

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It is from this scene

I HAz PainT, WIlZ Uz

To be able to take criticism well and find humor in such a charged subject, is the hallmark of humility.  May I rise to it one day!  If you ComicBookIZ me, I will give your picture to my daughter for inspiration.  I wonder if St. Peter’s is hiring and wanting that scene?

(for those who do not know me well, this was all taken in good stride.  This is no reflection of the priesthood.   If you don’t get this, I can’t help you “get” humor.)

Doing the REAL work – NPR interview regarding LCWR

There seems to be a collective misunderstanding of who does valuable work, what is worthy work, etc in the Church.  We, all the people of God, make up the Church.  We do the work of Christ through our different gifts.  Mine is focused right now on being a good wife and raising our children; a good mom.  I have seen different groups pitted against the other and how one is downplayed to make the other better. Example would be placing the Sisters whose particular gifts and charism to work with the poor as BETTER or DIFFERENT than those of a mother.  It should not be this way.  We should all be working together as a whole body.

This point comes from the recent interview on NPR regarding the LCWR.  It comes from a caller, Mary, who explains that the sisters are doing the REAL work of the Church.  I think this misunderstanding is widespread.  Do we view the priests, deacons, Bishops as not doing real work, or doing the work they were called to do?  Wanted to share this and explain we do the work of God when we are faithful and do the work he gave us.  I am not more special nor doing any better work than the fathers and mothers of homes because I am a Sister or a priest.  We all work together and hold each other up.  One of the Bishops and priests responsibility is to correct us if we are wrong.  The LCWR have serious problems and are being corrected. It isn’t a small dust-up either.  Unless they are saying they will correct themselves and do it now.  Will they accept the correction?  NPR interview

MARY: Hi, thank you. What I just wanted to say was I’ve been Catholic all my life, I’m 42 now, and when I was in my 20s, I was young and could get angry about the ridiculous things that the church would say, you know, no contraception, and it just seemed very unfair to women. And I was in college, and it just – I didn’t have room or time for it, and it was really easy to turn away from the church.

And I think as far as doctrinally how it affected my life, when I grew up and saw more of the world and came back to the church, I came – my philosophy was you stay in this faith when the reasons to stay outweigh the reasons to go. And the reasons to stay for me would be, you know, the sacraments, confession and Eucharist and the children, you know, being baptized and being brought up in the faith because Catholicism is a really hard faith to stay in if you’ve got – this is, I know I’m not right to say, but if you’ve got a good conscience about what’s right and what’s wrong for women and for men.

And I work probably 20 hours a week with St. Vincent De Paul bringing food to the poor. I mean, really homeless people, like, doing the real work. And our church, there’s – I’m in the archdiocese of Archbishop Peter Sartain, and he has referendums at the back of the church that we are encouraged to sign on the way out, you know, again, about marriage being between a man and a woman.

And it’s just frustrating and infuriating, but still I stay because the reasons to stay outweigh the reasons to go, and I just, you know, this church is 2,000 years old, and we just keep waiting for change. If you look back at all the mistakes that were made 1,000 years ago, the church finally got around and changed it. And this group of nuns, you know, speaking out publicly, it’s so brave and so courageous, and I’m so proud of them, but I’m afraid they’re going to be silenced or excommunicated.

But it’s – push is coming to shove. It’s coming to a head now.

CONAN: So you don’t think that your disagreements on doctrine make you any less of a Catholic?

MARY: No, I think I’m a good Catholic. In fact, when I go to confession, I sit there, and I say: You know, I really don’t have a whole lot to say because I think I do a pretty good job. Maybe pride is my biggest sin. But no, I think I’m a good Catholic. I think our social doctrine, social justice doctrine is ignored, and we’re focusing on this contraception.

And when I’m out feeding people and helping women with three or four kids, they could probably do without all these kids with no family support. And to be pushing against contraception and pushing against, you know – and I get so – what was your question?

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

MARY: No, I don’t think it makes me worse of a Catholic. I think I’m a good Catholic if I pay attention to the doctrines that are important: Eucharist and social justice. I think our social – and taking care of the poor. That’s – that is what we’re supposed to be doing, and so few do.

Catholic survey regarding Catholic education

Erin, from And Sometimes Tea, is conducting a survey and would like your help.  Go here to answer or answer in the comments below.

BTW, I know of areas who have problems with their Catholic schools, not just attendance, but doctrinal in nature.  I am aware of areas that are superb in all areas.  I am aware of those who cannot afford Catholic Schools anymore.  I am aware of families who could afford Catholic schooling, in a good area, but want to do it themselves.  Those are situations I read of.  Do you think that more children who attend Catholic schools remain Catholic because of THAT, or the school, home life, or none or all of the above?  Much has been written on how to keep your kids Catholic.

I wish that a study would be done of Catholic school students that would ask these questions at least four or five years after high school graduation:

–Were you educated in Catholic schools primarily, public schools primarily, or home school primarily?

–Do you still go to Mass every Sunday? If not, about when did you stop (e.g. high school, college, after college)?

–Do you still accept Church teachings in all areas? In particular, do you reject (at least in principle–I realize that to be a sinner is not to cease to be a Christian) the sins of fornication, of contraception (if married), of abortion, and all other sins of sexual immorality? Or do you think the Church must change her teachings in these areas to conform to the culture?

–Do you pray? If so, do you pray daily? Weekly? Or less often?

–Do you go to confession on a regular basis?

–Do you see your relationship with God as very important, somewhat important, or not important at all?

–Do you see your relationship with the Church as very important, somewhat important, or not important at all?

–Which of these best describes you: I am a practicing Catholic; I am Catholic, but I don’t go to Church often; I am no longer Catholic; I am no longer Christian; I no longer believe in God?

Sisters in Crisis – interview with Ann Carey

This interview was done by Jimmy Akin and I found it valuable in the history of how the Vatican has dealt with Women Religious.  What I discovered in this interview was the group, LCWR was put on notice for serious issues 11 years ago.  History is an enemy to some and it is now more clear why some things had to be published.  I pray they stay at the table and do what is needed and what is asked.

Sisters in Crisis Special

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by Jimmy Akin Saturday, April 21, 2012 10:28 AM Comments (0)

 

This week the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome mandated a thoroughgoing reform of the largest leadership conference for women religious in the United States.

In an exclusive interview, Ann Carey joins Jimmy Akin to go in-depth on this dramatic announcement, why it happened, what it means, and what may happen next.

Ann Carey is a journalist who has been covering the subject of women religious for many years. She is the author of the book Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women’s Religious Communities.

According to the Vatican report, there are serious doctrinal problems associated with the activities and publications of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious–some which challenge the core of the Christian faith itself.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/sisters-in-crisis-special#ixzz1shYGyluA