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Fr., your posts are sometimes like the Burma Shave billboards.

And don't anyone under a certain age, ask what Burma Shave was.

Speaking of Infowars, I read what I thought was a joke, that The Onion was taking over Infowars. Since it's The Onion, I assumed it was a joke, but other news services picked up the story as if it was real. Is it a case where they don't realize they are being played?

Yeah, but smart people without wisdom stir up the dumb people. And sometimes pay them to do it too.

Fasting got easier as I got older. My appetite just seemed to naturally decrease. I used to wonder why old people would eat like a bird.

I believe Trump is exploiting that noble bottom line because he doesn't care if his gamble ends in annihilation at his age. Until, or unless, you are willing to read "Art of the Deal", you have absolutely, positively, no clue as to what you are talking about, and thus you have no leg to s...

Did any other family members follow suite?

Alternatively, 71% of Catholics believe ending Iran’s nuclear program is important It found that 45% of Catholics support military force against Iran and 55% oppose military force This where the only thing that a poll reveals is mental disconnect. If a person thinks that they shouldn't have a nucle...

Unfortunately, Pope Leo responded in kind, thereby lowering his office and stature. To get into a war of words with a politician makes the Pope just another politician. The Pope SHOULD NOT be holding press conferences in the first place; that was a bad habit introduced by Francis which does far mor...

Since it has already been deleted from Truth Social, I suspect it was real.

I could never understand why the age for abstaining from meat went from 7 to 14. We did it. Maybe older generations were just tougher as kids. You just sucked it up and soldiered on. And if we cried, we got something to really cry about.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 7:19 pm The bigger oddity is why it's 59 instead of 60.

Because you would then be starting your 61st. year of life?

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 6:58 pm But that can't be right. The Newman Center at the University of Illinois had well over 100 on its own, and there were large numbers over the rest of the Peoria diocese as well. Maybe we didn't report.

That's what I was thinking. Did some not bother to report?

According to the USCCB these are the numbers for the top diocese new Catholics this past Easter. Doesn't seem to be in any particular order. Brooklyn had 1200, but NY next door didn't even make the list. I didn't add them all up. Mobile archdiocese – 603 Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau -200 Diocese ...

I agree with Doom.

He just said it a lot better than I could.

p.falk recently posted about Dollar General.

This guy Josh Johnson is usually really funny (until the rare occasion when he gets political):
https://www.facebook.com/JoshJComedy/vi ... 9215967478

...Although this is funny enough to have been the Babylon Bee...

N. t. B., referred to the Iranians looking for the downed American pilot (who was rescued), as "sand people".

Let's not forget that Pope Urban II called for Western Christianity to take up arms to help the Byzantine Empire and recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule, popularizing the phrase "Deus vult" ("God wills it"). So if Pope Leo is to be taken at face value, he's say...

I've also read that Luther probably suffered from scrupulosity.

From what I've read Card. Bellarmine did an excellent job. I haven't read too much of his writings, but he was a Jesuit so I'm sure he did a thorough job.

I thought it was uncharitable from the get-go. Saying that peace is the goal and should always be sought, is one thing. Judging others seems to be a continuation of Francis.