the whole shebang

read and decide for yourself... most depressing...

papal service announcement

GWP offers this piece of insight to newly papified Benedict XVI in hopes of wiser decisions and a more tolerant attitude:

"So passed one of the most remarkable pontiffs in the history of the papacy, his (Pius XII) memory fragrant with esteem. Such was the reverential self-censorship surrounding his name and pontificate that it was to take severeal years for more candid accounts of the death and obsequies to reach a wider public. His death agony, for instance, had been photographed by his former doctor, Galeazzi-Lisi, and the pictures offered to various magazines. The good doctor, moreover, had taken charge of the embalming, experimenting with a new method and leaving the intestines in place; in consequence, the corpse began to rot immediately in the autumn heat. As the hearse paused outside St. John Lateran, a series of dreadful farts and eructations was heard to issue from the coffin, a result, apparently, of rapid fermentation. During the lying-in-state in St. Peter's, the dead Pope's face turned gray-green and then purple, and the stench was so overpowering that one of the attendant guards fainted. A final indignity, his nose went black and fell off before interment."

"Hitler's Pope, The Secret History of Pius XII"

John Cornwell

my beautiful, serene bellybutton

all hail Omphaloskepsis! do thyself a favor...

joy of joys

ya can't make shit like this up...

a lil bit o' cuteness

just had to lighten up a bit...

my daughter evidently likes to mosh, which comes as a great surprise to me... give it time to load... and watch for the butt shake.

what would jesus say?

probably something about turning his father's house into a den of theives... or maybe something about it being easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than to get a rich man into heaven... but hey! it recites BIBLE VERSES, man...