Author: Pete Vere

Eat An Animal for PETA Day

As some of you know, Sarasota is the circus capital of the Americas. Additionally, I’m a big fan of the circus and when canon law questions arise, am often called upon to assist our Catholic circus chaplains. In fact, I will be having dinner with Fr. Jerry Hogan, head circus chaplain for the USA, this Friday. That being said, a growing headache whenever I bring my family to the circus is wading through a bunch of obnoxious PETA protesters. For those of you who don’t know it, PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In my experience, most of them are also pro-aborts.

Anyway, my buddy and former classmate, Steve Martinovich over at Enter Stage Right has just tipped me off that March 15th is National Eat an Animal for PETA Day. I’m gonna be cleaning out my charcoal smoker, purchasing some mesquite chips, getting some Sonny’s BBQ sauce, and slap down a nice rack of ribs, thick juicy beef roast and a lemon-garlic rubbed chicken for the event. Any of our readers in the Sarasota area are invited to join me. Please RSVP before next Saturday.

While I’m still undecided on the war with Iraq, mainly because I feel the situation in North Korea is much more urgent and dangerous to our immediate future, the one thing that leaves me scratching head with many of these left-wing peace protesters is their penchant toward nudity. What the heck is this about? If certain peace protesters feel this is such a necessity, why don’t they buy a ticket to some Islamic middle-East country which is governed by the Sharia and unrobe there? As a bonus, they could ask Planned Parenthood to arm them with plenty of pro-abortion pamphlettes. I’m sure the representatives of the religion of peace would afford them a warm welcome.

Southern Baptist (sung to the tune of Southern Man by Neil Young)
Southern Baptist loves to stretch
The good book into proof text
Catholic apol’gist come at last
Now your heresies are burning fast

As Seen on a Bumper Sticker

“God asks for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.”

The Ins and Outs of Annulments

I can sympathize with my poor blog-mates who are snowed-in. Even though I live in Florida, I know the feeling as I currently rush against the clock to finish a book manuscript due to the publisher in a couple of months. Anyway, since I often field questions about annulments from readers, I thought some of you might find the following piece of interest. It’s an interview I recently did with Heather Felton, editor of our diocesan newspaper, on annulments within our diocese: The ins and outs of annulments.