o what a glorious feeling

And so, thanks to the sexual revolution, you could join the crusade again Christianity without having to read any books. All you had to do was go to bed with your girlfriend or boyfriend, avoid having a guilty conscience about this, and then congratulate yourself for having risen above ancient prejudices. Any idiot could do this. Anti-Christianity, which had never been more than a minority persuasion, was suddenly a majority persuasion.




                                                                      David Carlin






           ...hey wait...do we really have to rethink progress?
















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just looking ahead...if we may

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison
 and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.
His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society
 and slowly help rebuild civilization,
as the church has done so often in human history.


                                       Francis Cardinal George
















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durable theology

God grant me the serenity
 to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
 and wisdom to know the difference


                              Reinhold Niebuhr
















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redemption in a vaccuum

A God without wrath
 brought men without sin
into a kingdom without judgment
 through the ministrations of a Christ
without a cross.






                   ...the goal of liberal humanism








                            H. Richard Niebuhr












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blame the WASP work ethic

Leisure supports work instead of the other way around.
The whole thing is,
 as one might say here in Texas, bass ackwards.
How we recover an authentic sense of leisure when
 we live in a time of "total work" without reference to God
 is one of the challenges of our time.










                                               Andrew M. Greenwell














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on the hind end of a sky blue and pink bus

found poem #7,988










          u N      T
      F                 i
                            m
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      ICE CREAM


           caution
          stop   for
          children




CHILDREN CROSSING   










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multi-colored universal catholicism...to the god of leisure

In the offering of a libation to the gods,
 one is to pour a little of the wine on the ground,
 to waste it,  to show that not everything is necessary.
From the point of view of God’s creation,
He did not “need” to create.
In a paradoxical sense,  He wasted His time
 tossing us out there to see what we might do.
 In the end,
He seems simply to have wanted us
 to “waste” our time with Him for eternity.
I will buy that thesis!






                                        James V. Schall  SJ


























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blessed are the....

You must speak to Jesus, not only with your lips,

 but also with your heart;

 actually, on certain occasions,

 you should speak with only your heart.

                               — St. Padre Pio

and take heed

I've noticed that everyone
 who is for abortion 
has already been born



        ronald reagan  ( yep that RR )




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