At the office today, I heard one end of a phone conversation. A co-worker got a call from a friend, who started telling her the latest news about Jane, a student gal they know who is perpetually broke:
“I don’t understand. Jane is gonna ‘sell an egg’ and get $4000?…
What is it — Fabergé?”
Category: Odds & Ends
Sexual Abuse – not just the Church’s problem
Boy Scout Police Program Shocker
At least a dozen teenagers assigned to work with police departments as part of the Boy Scouts’ Law Enforcement Explorers program have allegedly been sexually abused by officers during the past year. In the past five years, such molestations number at least 25, according to criminologists’ research being released Wednesday.
One notable feature of StBlogs.org
Bloggers on fire
Our own Pete Vere at Envoy Encore on Canada’s destruction of the institution of Marriage.
Amy Welborn at her joint on lay ministry and Rome’s perspective on our country’s bishops’ sticky wicket.
Fr. Rob on marriage prep, cohabitation, and extra-marital sexual relations – known to everyone in the whole wide, fallen world as just plain “sex” though that is only one meaning of the word. I’ll post my take on this later today.
In other news, I ate way too much for breakfast. I’m going to pop.
The funniest Baptist joke I’ve ever heard
Brought to you by Josh from Saint Some Days (apparently not today!)
How do you keep a southern baptist from drinking all of your beer on a fishing trip? Bring along another southern baptist!