It could always be worse

I don’t know why I always say, “I’ll spare you the details,” when I really won’t.

 

Fortnight for Freedom

The American Bishops are on a roll!

Why I’m still mad about The Descendants

Miss it if you can.

I’ll be on the Drew Mariani Show today

around 5:40 EDT for about 20 minutes, talking about the abstinence and sex ed posts I wrote.  While I am honored that they asked me on the show, I’m trying hard not to think about how incoherent I usually am by that time of day!  Is it still considered cutting edge to say “sort of” instead of “you know?”

The Drew Mariani Show

Book winner!

Congratulations to . . .

deopatriaeamicis

the winner of Feast Days and Holidays: Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Traditions.  Thanks for playing, everyone!  I’ll have another nice book giveaway in a couple of weeks. 

Happy Friday!

So what DO we tell our kids about sex?

Hello, everyone.  Guess how many times I wrote today’s post and then WordPress, Expression Engine, and the Microsoft Word lost it?  And guess how many medals I’ve earned for not just filling in this post with colorful exclamations having to do with . . . ducks?   And mothers?  The answer to the first question is THREE.  And the answer to the second one is NOT ENOUGH.

The good news is, they sell REALLY BIG GLASSES at the dollar store.  And now I’m off to refill it.  Son of a.

Is THIS what abstinence-only education looks like?

One of the excellent comments on the Register for today’s post (which is not political; I just thought this was a good comment):

This is why Catholics need to be wary about taking sides in the United States’ “Culture War”. The US is predominantly a Protestant nation. This means that the battle lines aren’t between secularism and Christianity, but secularism and heretical Christianity. (Not that I don’t like Protestants, but their moral theology is seriously deficient. I certainly don’t stay Catholic for the music.) As a result, Catholics may find themselves unwittingly supporting positions and ideas contrary to Church teaching due to a poorly thought out political alliance.

My husband added, “Protestants don’t understand the body, because they don’t have The Body.”  Then he said, “They made a pretty good dinosaur, but it has too much frog DNA in it.”   Heh.

(I realize that these are pretty broad strokes.  Perhaps protestantism in other countries looks different from American protestantism; and perhaps a certain crummy but VERY LOUD segment of American protestantism gets a disproportionate voice in the American media?)