Some days ...

Looks like the Church militia men 

want the 'church of nice' after all.

The gossip online passed off as news because they are reported in Catholic publications is very disturbing, very soul-destroying.

Damien Thompson.  Edward Pentin.  'Journalists' and bloggers alike report allegations made by 'sources close to the Pope', unnamed Vatican sources.  Cardinals claim 30 or more anonymous Cardinals are with them in their doubt... waiting for the Pope to say something.  Social-media clerical-wanna-be's condemn 'ordinary Catholics' as 'too stupid to understand' what all of this means.

I was playing on Facebook yesterday, writing really stupid stuff - as usual - and I was amazed how frequently people update their timeline with trivia.  So that's what people do when their faces are always buried in their phones.  That's what they do in between projects at work.  (I'm not exempting myself in this - since that's also how I see all the gossip and slanderous comments in comboxes.)  Trivia is fine - having fun is fine - but slandering the Pope is evil.

Delusion on a massive scale.

Those so scandalized by the coprophilia statement by Pope Francis really ought to consider the shit they are saying and repeating to understand the profundity of that expression.  In Scripture the Holy Spirit gives the Word to the prophet* and the apostle to eat and consume ... the Word of God gives joy to the soul.  On the other hand, the devil gives the excrement of gossip and derision and scandal to consume and spew - and this is what is repeated in the gossip columns of social media. The effects of this is sadness - faith destroying sadness.

The Holy Spirit says:

Oh, that today you would hear his voice,"Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion ...

Take care, brothers and sisters,
that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.
Encourage yourselves daily while it is still "today," so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.  - Hebrews 3: 7-14

*When I found your words, I devoured them;
your words were my joy, the happiness of my heart,
Because I bear your name,
LORD, God of hosts. - Jeremiah 15:16

Snap out of it!

Katie and Tom: The divorce is amicable.

Katie

TomKat BFF!

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes "amicably settled" their divorce just two weeks after Holmes filed for it, an attorney told CNN Monday.

While no details of their agreement are public, the former couple said they are "working together" in the "best interests" of their young daughter.

In the June 28 divorce filing, Holmes sought sole custody of 6-year-old Suri. Holmes and Cruise have been married for five years.

"We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life," said Holmes' attorney Jonathan Wolfe. - CNN

So anyway, Kat says Katie joined a parish in NYC.  A few of her readers seem to think that's not Catholic enough.  For Christ's sake!  Can't people at least be happy that she took a first step to being reconciled to the Church - if indeed she hasn't been already?  Now it seems to be a Catholic you have to sign on with just the right parish right off the bat, and be absolutely perfect from the get go - just like the holier than thous are.

No wonder people don't like organized religion and hate Catholics. 

Oh!  Oh!  It appears the welcome would not be out for the husband either - that is, if he decides to return some day.  Nice.  Maybe if he was an atheist who decided to convert it would be soooooooooooooo different?  One would think he'd at least get a welcome at Patheos then, after all - rumor has it he is bisexual.