Author: Sal

“Nasty” cookies

Link via Brit Hume’s Grapevine on foxnews.com

Family Circle magazine says there’s — “no reason” to halt this year’s recipe contest between the presidential candidates’ wives — even though Teresa Heinz Kerry now says her pumpkin spice cookies taste — “nasty.” In fact, Heinz Kerry has said the recipe isn’t even hers, insisting somebody at the Kerry campaign gave that recipe out and — “somebody [did] it on purpose to give a nasty recipe.”

I thought she would have blamed it on a vast, right-wing conspiracy, not someone in her husband’s campaign.

Laura Bush , meanwhile, is standing by her oatmeal chocolate chunk recipe. Since Family Circle had its first so-called bake-off in 1992, the winning recipe has always corresponded with who ends up living in the White House.

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Catholic League Successfully Foils Democratic Religious Adviser Appointment – Again

“I am resigning my position as the director of religious outreach because it is no longer possible for me to do my job effectively,” Rev. [Brenda Bartella] Peterson said, as reported by Talon News. The Washington Post added Thursday that her decision was made “after the New York-based Catholic League issued three blistering news releases attacking her positions.”

Blistering and but appropriate! If the democrats want to be taken seriously by people of faith they should hire a liason who at least believes in God.

“Why are Kerry and the DNC imploding on religion? Because too many of the elites running the show are devout secularists who put a premium on freedom from religion,” [William] Donohue maintains. “Their idea of religious liberty is banning nativity scenes on public property. Their idea of diversity is censoring ‘under God’ from the Pledge. Their idea of tolerance is forbidding a moment of silence in the schools. Their idea of a good Catholic is Frances Kissling of Catholics for a Free Choice. Their idea of compassion is hiking taxes. Their idea of helping the poor is giving them directions to a soup kitchen. And their idea of choice is abortion, not school vouchers,” he said.

By their fruits, nuts, flakes, twigs, and berries you shall know them

Link via Bill Cork

A Gloucestershire vicar is to launch a nude calendar in his church after a group of 13 women posed naked to raise money for rape victims in Rwanda.
…”A lot of thought has gone into this and it is about empowering Rwandan women who have been so debased. It is about reasserting women’s essential female selves,” he said.

George Stallings in Majesty

The legacy of George Stallings is evident at his last parish, St. Teresa of Avila in Anacostia. Above the “high” marble altar (I don’t know what else to call the pre-Vatican II altar) is the painting shown in the conniption-inducing photos below. It bears a resemblance to the former priest, now “Unificationist” follower of Reverend Moon. Stallings, founder of the African American Catholic Congregation, married a Japanese woman in 2001 less than half his age, no doubt in the interest of unification.
I agree the match isn’t spot-on, but given the age difference between the photos and when the painting was probably done (he left the Church in 1989) it’s plausible. Is that a wound on the right arm or is it a visage of Christ at all?
Click below to see the photos. I didn’t wish to post them on the main page here because it would use a ton of bandwidth.

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Dei Gratia

A blog by Joshua LeBlanc, one of our faithful brethren from Front Royal, VA.
And let me say at this time:
Hooray for faithful Catholics from Front Royal!
Hooray for Christendom College!
Hooray for the communion rail in the chapel at Christendom College!