Posted on 09/14/2007 7:30:16 AM PDT by NYer
Send in the straightjackets - Newsweek has cracked up. Of all the stories in the entire world to cover, Newsweek's website is flagging as its "Top Story" an insane piece about a woman (complete with photo) who thinks she is an ordained Catholic priest. They found her in Missouri, though had Newsweek reporter Karen Springen walked into the nearest asylum, she would have found some who think they're the pope.
Springen's discovery is Jessica Rowley.
Jessica thinks she's a Catholic priest because some crackpot group said they ordained her. Springen, whose contempt for the Catholic Church is rivaled only by her ignorance of it, not only makes snide comments about the Church's rules governing ordination, she implies that the Catholic Church thinks "it's a sin to be gay" and excludes divorced people.
Springen's delusional discovery, of course, is pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality - just the kind of person who would make a great addition to Newsweek.
There are so many denominations that would welcome Jessica, but the fact that she rejects them all indicates how little regard she has for them. This says volumes about the prestige these trendy religious communities have, even among alienated dissidents. So Jessica would rather play make-believe, pretending she's a Catholic priest.
By Halloween, she'll no doubt become a bishop.
If - I think, therefore I am - was good enough for Descartes, Newsweek reasons, then "I think I'm a Catholic priest, therefore I am" is good enough for Jessica. And for Newsweek as well.
The next time someone tells me that the Catholic League shouldn't be worried about bigots like Kathy Griffin - "we have a war going on, they thunder!" - I'll be sure to tell them what passes as the "Top Story" at Newsweek.
I’ll just have to hit you with a friendly right click.....
She’s the topic of the article........
THAT’s the “Priestess”???? LOL!!!! I thought it was the vapid writer!
Well, we’d never do it in California!
He was elected by a group of six conclavists, that included himself and his parents ...
Ugh. And I’m the king of Norway.
I disagree.
I think she’s cute.
Completely off the wall insane, but cute.
Most of these deluded folk are frumpy butch ugly lesbian types.
Now that the Weekly World News has folded, Time, Newsweek and the NYT have had their editorial boards replenished with its top talent.
I gather that Bat Boy is now Arthur Sulzberger’s personal adviser and assistant at the NYT, and that he doesn’t go anywhere without him and his PDA.
Was she ordained by an alien in the Paramus Holiday Inn? (Ghostbusters II joke)...
Hey we had a guy who thought he was the Emperor recently. A State police officer shot him dead when he refused to stop waving a gun around outside the Governor’s office in Denver...
You’re making a joke, right?
What is it with fags and “neckerchiefs?”
Yes, I knew that. That’s why I started with a joke about me also being in the CIA. Your last post seemed a little nasty so I thought you might not have realized that I was trying to be funny.
Amen. Well, that’s propably the wrong choice of word, but you get the idea....
I’ll go back to working on my jokes now!
Off we go, into the wild blue yonder...
Not guilty! Oh, and it’s “straitjacket” not “straightjacket.”
It’s hard to take an article seriously that makes such a blunder in the very first sentence.
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