You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Virgin Mary and her husband a carpenter, gave birth to a son on Christmas and named him Jesus.

But this Virgin Mary gave birth this year in Peru.

The mother, Virgen Maria Huarcaya, delivered the 7.7 pound (3.5 kg) boy, Jesus Emanuel, in the early hours of Christmas at the central maternity hospital in Lima, the capital.

You can read the whole story here.

Hat tip to Ironic Catholic for the link.

Angelbaby Theology

Overheard bit of a conversation between the angelbaby and her older sister the other day:


Angelbaby: God is perfect, he never makes mistakes


Older sister: That is right.


Angelbaby: Except maybe spiders.


Pax

The Kingdom of God is like . . .

right here, right now; and if you aren't living in the kingdom, what is your problem?

That was the message of the final homily at Corpus Christi, our adopted parish down here in paradise. Fr. Bob was trying to get everyone to understand that Jesus used all of those allusions to the kingdom in the gospels to make his followers understand that the kingdom of God was all around them and all they had to do was to choose to live in the kingdom.

Fast forward to here and now, and the message is still valid. The kingdom of God is still here, we are all still living in the kingdom. All we have to do is love one another as Christ loves us. So we must choose to do the right thing at all times. We must choose to live justly (Catholic social justice teachings; sound familiar? If not start reading up) We must choose to make right choices when it comes to our interactions with other people, especially those we say we love. Fr. Bob was especially hard on married people who break their vows.

It should be our choice to live rightly, in the kingdom, not live in sin choosing to live in the world of the evil one. It shouldn't be that difficult a choice.

Wow. I am still reeling at how forcefully he spoke about issues like abortion, and war and capital punishment, FROM THE PULPIT. I know my dear friend Suzanne would have wept with joy. I certainly teared up.

I sure will miss Fr. Bob, and I made a point of telling him so after Mass when we stopped by to say goodbye.

Pax

Documentarian or Liar

Apparently when you are Michael Moore it is a very fine line.

According to some filmmakers who started out to make an homage to their favorite documentairan but in the process unearthed huge gaps in the truth behind his first work "Roger and Me".

Read more here at Church of the Masses.

My question is Why hasn't Oprah had him on her show and given him her For shame speech like she gave James Frey, and why are the two any different?

Pax