I think you mean Cranmerberry juice….

America Magazine ceased being a Catholic publication sometime in the early 70′s.

Now, it’s the press organ of AmChurch. Not unlike the National Catholic Reporter.

Fr. Philip, OP

I was going to say “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” but out of respect for St. Edmund Campion, it seems … inappropriate. Yes, that is the word.

Don’t forget the children’s ministry at Mark Shea Calvinist Ministries, Inc., where we teach the kids such classics as “Jesus Loves Some Little Children” and “Jesus Loves Me, This I Think”

Well, I could give Archbishop Williams the benefit of the doubt about chivalry and literary talent, but there’s NO way that he shares the faith of Edmund Campion, because, you see, Edmund was a Christian.

Thank you for the drink idea. It looks like I might need it!

Bloody Elizabeth… can’t wait to order a Bloody Bess at some bar now….

A gaggle of apostate Jesuits with a considerable homosexual component use their cute little no-longer-Catholic magazine to give an award to Mr. Williams. Yawn! Now the MCJ award to Benedict XVI – THAT’S news! Also, for those of you seeking to save money in these hard times, the pages of America magazine are almost as soft as Charmin tissue and are only useful for the same purpose as Charmin.

Reporter: “How do you measure scholarship?”
America Editor: “By weight.”

Apologies to Caddyshack, but having read some of Rowan’s pieces, the only way it could be considered quality scholarship is is “quality” = volume.

Do you need to create an account on xtranormal.com before you can make movies? I tried creating one twice but haven’t received the confirmation yet. When I try to make the movie it times out.

I wanted to do an interview with the Archbishop in which he accepts the award and says, “You like me, you really like me”

Ah, yes. I was waiting for you to comment on this one, Christopher.

The notion of an Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury being awarded an honour named after St. Edmund Campion was only exceeded in the amount of glee it produced in me by the revelation that the Anglicans also honour him in the Calendar of the Saints.

Yes. I see. The veneration of a martyr/traitor (depending on which side of the fence you’re on), who was executed in the reign of the foundress of the Anglican church as an enemy of the state, a rebel against the legal government, a sedition monger and a danger to society, by that same church in later times makes perfect sense.

I’m sure some day we’ll reciprocate by adding Sir Francis Walsingham to the Calendar.

Bloody Betty

Kinda reminds me of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and honorary doctorate from Notre Dame.

“…the only way it could be considered quality scholarship is is “quality” = volume.”

There’s the award for Obfuscation, Obtuseness and Opacity. Maybe even RC scholars cannot make heads or tails of Rowan’s emissions either.

[...] Hattip to Midwest Conservative Journal.  The latest in my on-going series on the follies of some modern Jesuits.  Proving yet again that they have the charism of being impervious to irony, the editorial board of America magazine announced that they were awarding the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the Campion Award.  Considering the fact that Saint Edmund Campion, SJ, was martyred for his efforts to give spiritual succor to Catholics unwilling to desert the Faith for the Church of England, one might think that even the denizens of the editorial board of America might regard this as a trifle odd.  However, it actually makes sense when you think about it.  First, it allows them to take a backhanded slap at the Anglican initiative of the Pope, and, second, what the Church of England has morphed into, a left wing pressure group with prayers, is frankly what America has been championing for years in the Catholic Church.  Their hopes have been crushed, but they can by this award salute Rowan Williams, and give another gesture to the Pope. [...]

Reporter: “How do you measure scholarship?”
America Editor: “By weight.”

In that case, I should be getting tenure momentarily.

Heck, there may be a Nobel prize in the works, although I did buy a exercise bike today that could knock me out of that weight category. (We live in hope)

Hope you got a Schwinn Air Dyne. Upper and lower body at the same time…air resistance. Awesome…but get a gel seat cover.

Ooops, I got disconbobulated and put FW Ken in the name box.

I meant to say:

FW Ken,
Hope you got a Schwinn Air Dyne. Upper and lower body at the same time…air resistance. Awesome…but get a gel seat cover.

The only award that should be headed ++Williams way is the “Garish Garter of the Bewildered Yellowbacked Ostrich”, which is given out every year by the “Neville Chamberlain Society for Lasting Peace”. It honours the individual who has done the most to promote a harmful, faux state of “peace” between parties whose irreconcilable differences have caused them to break their bonds of affection with one another……….

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Cheers

No, Floridian, just something from Sears. I was shopping for some new workout shoes, it hit me that a bike at the house would get more use than suit up and going to the gym, so I took what I could get.

But now I’m second guessing myself. Gee… thankx.

For those who seek an alternative to the mostly drek that fills the pages of America magazine, may I suggest The New Jesuit Review. Clearly there are still faithful Jesuits. The tide is turning. However, Jesuits are very much like the little girl in the nursery rhyme: When they are good, they are very, very good, and when they are bad they are horrid. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam

Rowan F.X. Williams, S.J.‘s cover has been blown!

Given the amount of it we ate in the 1960′s, back in the obligatory-meatless-Friday days, I always wondered why “mackerel snappers” wasn’t updated to “tuna fish snappers.”

Come on now, Therese. You have to aim higher than that.

Oh, we had mackeral, right enough, when ever it was in season.

We also ate lots of cod, which in the finest traditions of Irish country cooking, was boiled in plain water and served with parsley sauce made from a packet, so that it came out something like eating cotton wool with pins in (whenever you got jabbed in the tongue with one of the bones).

Crap, now I actually have a taste for the second Holy Trinity of non-Italian Catholics: tuna fish salad, applesauce and Kraft mac’n'cheese.

You make your guardian angel cry if you skip any one of them.

Our youth group does a fish fry after Stations on Fridays in Lent, and use whitefish, mainly because that’s what one of our parishioners tends to catch in the Gulf. When that runs out we get fish tacos and chiliquiles (sp?), not to mention nachos.

But here’s another take on the America situation.

http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otr.cfm?id=5209

And in a related story, the Eastern Orthodox are getting on board the Rowan express:

http://tinyurl.com/yeyfspq

Don Janousek: I like your alternative use for America. What did Mad Magazine used to say? “Suitable for training puppies or wrapping fish…”

FW Ken, I have to agree with Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon’s response. I know and respect Fr. Chad Hatfield, the chancellor of St. Vladimir’s, but I would sure like to know what they were thinking when they decided to honor Rowan Williams.