A thought for Advent

Some choirs don’t deserve microphones.
And some congregations deserve choirs who don’t deserve microphones.

Another great reason to avoid the “Catholic” Campaign for Human Development


Catholics probe aid directed to ACORN

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has hired forensic accounting specialists to investigate more than $1 million in church funding to voter-registration group ACORN, fearing the money may have been spent in partisan or fraudulent ways that could jeopardize the church’s tax-exempt status.
The investigation is “thorough, serious and ongoing,” according to a July 11 letter to more than 200 bishops from New Orleans Bishop Robert Morin, chairman of the committee that oversees the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
The CCHD sent $1,037,000 to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in 2007, including a $40,000 grant to an ACORN affiliate in Las Vegas that was raided last month by the Nevada attorney general’s office in a voter-fraud probe. …full story

Holy Typo, Batman

We sang Amazing Grace today.
In the program it was “Amazon Grace”
I think someone in the parish office has been spending too much time on the Internet…

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“Clergy For Obama”

I know this blog hasn’t been around for long, but somehow I don’t expect the screen shot to change much between now and November:
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