Lenten Massive Fail!

Okay, so posting any blog entries during Lent was a massive fail. Partly because it is hard to pull up any Catholic sites here at work. They are being Websensed under the group "Traditional Religions." And the other part is becuase I've been refereeing massive amounts of soccer games this season and getting in extremely late and tired pretty much everyday. I do intend to get into these topics again. Happy Easter, all!

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Ash Wednesday

Well, it's been a little while. Okay, it's been a long while. But, I'm going to try to start doing something on this blog during lent this year. Yes, part of my lenten resolution is to blog. I'm not planning on blogging everyday or all the time. But, just starting back up slowly. I think I'm going to bring back two segments that I used to do. One is Terse Verse where I take a simple verse from the Bible and try to make sense of it on my own or tell you how it talks to me. The other segment is Theology Thursday where I do something similar with some other kind of Church document. So, basically, this blog will be a Tues. and Thurs. event. Well, at least for this lent. And hopefully I can keep it up for at least these 40 days.

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Finally, the Bible being put in its place?

Hong Kong is trying to decide if the Bible should be classified as indecent due to the mention of violence, sexuality, incest, rape, etc. At least people are starting to realize that the Bible isn't all that boring reading, you can't get all 3 of the elements of a good book in the Bible (sex, death, and religion). But, maybe not for the right reasons. If the Bible was deemed indecent in Hong Kong, it would mean that it would have to be sold from behind the counter with a sealed wrapper with a printed warning and could only be sold to people over 18. Just like an issue of Playboy.

But, there is a difference. The Bible doesn't glorify these sexual acts or include explicit details. If the Bible gets these restrictions put on it, then it would make sense to put the same restrictions on newspapers that mention the rapist that was arrested yesterday. And there could be more, where would it stop?

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Drunken Vandals in Rome

Four drunken visitors to Rome from Eastern Europe were arrested when they tried to take a screw driver to the papal emblem on the beautiful Fontana della Barcaccia (seen above) at the world known Spanish Steps. The fountain was commisioned by Pope Urban VIII in the late 1620's.

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Fatima Sex Ads

Talking about money being the root of all evil. An advertising company has decided to print maps of the shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima. So far so good, but what are the advertisements on the side? Sex ads. These unofficial maps are confusing pilgrims and making them mad. This company really needs to replace their marketing department, obviously their demographic studies are done by monkeys. It doesn't take a genius to figure that people devout enough to pilgrimmage to Fatima, are not going to be into abhorent sexual behavior.

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Reasons NOT to use Ads by Google

Check out the link in the title. This is an article from wikihow about how to address the Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, and deacons whether verbally or in writing. Now, look at the side bar on the right that has Ads by Google links. Currently, there are 5 links and ALL 5 have something to do with finding registered sex offenders. You've got to be kidding me. This page says nothing about sex, abuse, or anything to that matter, and yet this crap still pops up. This has really got my ire going right now. There's absolutely NO reason for it.

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What a vigil!

Easter Vigil at IU was very awesome, the siging and reading was great, the priests were fantastic and there were 11 people being baptized and 11 more candidates. Thats a total of 22 people entering the Church ON a college campus! Congratulations to all who have recieved sacraments this Easter Vigil!

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