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Pres. Balog puts the kibash on the “gay moralist” speaker.

As I’ve said to others before, my beef is not that he was cancelled; it’s that this Corvino clown was booked in the first place, and that he STAYED booked for so long; it was an 11th-hour cancellation, but I guess the saying, “better late than never” holds true here. I’m glad that Dr. Balog set the precedent that he can and will use his presidential authority, but I think it does say something about Aquinas that there was not already a policy in place to say, “Look, they can’t bash the Church, mmm’kay?” Ah well. As someone who will be an alumni, I’m very pleased with this.

Now if only they would stop admitting more freshmen than they can afford to house and kicking everyone else off campus, forcing some to drop out of college all together because they cannot attend unless they live on campus. Friggin’ Trustees….but that is another blog for another day.

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Listening to that right now. Just pop it open in another tab and listen to the pretty chant.

This makes me smile. It also clarifies the nature of the excommunications for the SSPX.

I’m at work right now. I was treated to a great hand bell choir concert as a result. My final (I think…) band concert of college is tomorrow, and I’m uber sad about that. I really do love band, though my behavior (i.e. practicing and such,) probably says the exact opposite. =-( I want to play at least on the intermission piece at Commencement, as well as at the Baccalaureate Mass, where I’ll also be singing.

Job hunt is on the bullet train to Nowheresville. St. Joseph, ora pro nobis…

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http://www.nbc5.com/news/15682925/detail.html

OK, these freaks would raise Cain if the Cardinal were to intrude one of THEIR meetings, but disrupt the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass? Sure! Where we are to be our MOST humble, they can only think about their own “cause” and their own self-posturing. My choice of Current Music was not without forethought. I’m actually really glad this article did not try to make these schmucks out to be martyrs. For anyone who’s read The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis, this makes me think of when Screwtape tells Wormwood to make sure that the Patient’s “faith” goes no deeper than “Christianity and the Cause.” Always Christianity and _____ (insert war, peace, whatever you want here,) where Christ and His word and preaching and His Church are only worth anything to the extent that they can be sacrificed on the altar of the Cause. Catholic Social Teaching is only worth something when it’s Iraq; turn to Roe vs. Wade, homosexual “marriage,” or anything like that, and all that nice rhetoric dries up QUICK.

I’d rant more, but I’ve homework.

NOTE: the above is cut-and-pasted from my Live Journal. Current Music was Plus One’s cover of “Here I Am to Worship.” I also note the cut-pastage in clase things don’t format right once I actually click Publish. I don’t have time at the moment to putz with it to make it look like it ought. Sorry!

Oh, and for anyone wondering, Notre Dame rejected me. Nothing more to say on that than that.

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So I was driving to the bank today to deposit some paychecks, and as I approached a rather busy intersection in the area, I noticed two individuals were holding a cross that had “Merry Christmas” written on its planks. I thought it was cool, with the only exception of all the other drivers honking was making me nervous because I wasn’t sure if they were honking the sign or my lousy driving.

Anyway, just thought I’d share that. Sorry for the lack of posts. Crunch time is slowly decending on my ACE application.

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Upcomming events at the campus that begs God (as in the real God, that Jesus dude,) to forsake it:

Native American “Land Blessing” ceremony.
I know we don’t have a chaplin here and have to beg the Diocese for visiting priests, but still… >_> This is put on by the Women’s Studies Center, since they’re feeling guilty for being white again. (DUDE, your DNA is what it is. Just because my ancestors did something wrong doesn’t mean I have to apologize as if I am the guilty one.) And they know they can get away with it. The junk on this campus gets worse because THEY KNOW THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!

“Transgender” day of “awareness.”
Given that this is a (technically) CATHOLIC college, the problem here should be able to go without saying. Yes, even one “transgendered” person being murdered is horrible; murder always is and our disgust with it should be blind to categories like that, BUT the way The Alliance is manipulating propaganda, you would think it rivals lynchings of African Americans during the civil rights movement of our parents’ generation. I even hesitate to use the GLBT acronym in my tags, but I figured it was short and would cover a wide range of posts on idiocy in that “movement.” Then again, none of these movements contrary to God can survive without stopping to such.

Anyway, a Systems Analysis II midterm is calling me.

God bless!!! ^_^

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Does anyone know of a good WordPress client for Linux (ubuntu, preferably,) that allows specifying URLs to ping? I can NOT get Technorati to register when this darn thing is updated.

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Especially if you’re a wannabe she-”priest!”

And THIS needs to happen a LOT more often!!!

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I really like how a friend of mine put things.

I swear if it wasn’t at least venially sinful, I’d smack some of the folks on one of the boards I’ve been following this on.  GOOD WORD you’d think they were mini-Popes the way they ring down condemnations.  Ugh.

Anyway, a mini-h week (purgatory week?) has begun in my academic life, so I’ll have to leave it at that.  I WANT to write more, but if I start ranting, this will take forever.  :p

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http://wicatholicmusings.blogspot.com/2007/11/letter-of-fr-f rancis-mary.html
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=195457
The first link links to a clip from this past week’s Life on the Rock episode. The clip is long, but the announcement itself is less than 10 minutes.

Pray! =-(

EDIT:

http://www.americanpapist.com/2007/11/fr-francis-mary-stone- ewtn.html

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So the pastor of the parish I went to Mass at today (and go whenever I can get a ride,) was rushing around quite a bit before Mass started.  I think he may have been on his way to a sick call, considering the things I saw in his hands.  Anyway, at one point, he stops in front of the pews and says, “This is why we need more priests.  Parents, pray for your children!”  That made me smile so much.  ^_^  Things like this are why I love that parish so much.  The priest is one of the awesomest {sp?} priests I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Anyway, homework calls!

God bless!  ^_^

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