Somewhat inactive

Hi, All – I’m defering to the likes of Amy Welborn on discussing IT. IT being the thing that is the complete focus of everyone’s attention these days.
I will say that I heard the reverend McBrien from Notre Dame on WMAL in DC this morning and it colored my day charcoal gray. Can someone tell me where in the Vatican II docs it says there should be lay involvement in the minute details of Church governance? Please do. Because if he is right, I am ignorant. If he is wrong, he’s a liar with an agenda – he’s a theology professor and should know better, I’m a lay person who hasn’t had a chance to read all the docs just yet. Them’s fightin’ words, I know – but I could really use an answer.

I’m giving Mark Shea the last word on nomenclature.

After this I won’t criticize anyone’s taxonomy.

The Situation is not “mealy-mouthed”. It’s typically Welbornian droll understatement. Like the Eurocrat Brit who referred to Pim Fortuyn’s “recent difficulties”.

On this we disagree. That and $13 will get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

By the way, thanks for the vote of support. I find the dishonesty of the gay apologists simply breathtaking.

You are most welcome. I doubt your detractors have found their way over here but if so I am telling all of you that must discuss these matters with intellectual and spiritual integrity, not by flinging pernicious insults at people we don’t agree with.

What we need is another contest.

This has an actual prize so keep reading. All you bloggers need a short break from The Crisis, The Conference, and from reading about people hammering Mark Shea just because he is right. I’m looking for the worst free-verse poetry you can heave onto the page. It has to be original – don’t send me any William McGonagall or Yoko Ono you pulled off the net. Any topic is welcome but please avoid the near occasion of sin for your sake and mine. The jongluer whose poesy is so bad that it makes me want to grate cheese will get a handsome 15-decade rosary. You can use it to pray unceasingly that I don’t come to your house and read you all the entries I received. Remember, poetry doesn’t have to be long to be bad. Here’s my entry:

don't call your mother-figure
collect or mine
rather say to the piano
it is very
very
very
very bad for having
black and
white keys instead of
paws like a cat or a mongoose
lunch