Posted on 10/15/2001 5:10:15 PM PDT by BaBaStooey
Hey no-meat-eaters-on-Fridays-during-Lent!
There are a ton of us Catholic Freepers out there, this is our little thread in the big big world. This is just my way of attempting to get to know people just like me.
A few links I enjoy:
www.vatican.va - the Holiest Web Site on Earth
www.scripturecatholic.com - providing Scripture references to support the teachings of the faith
And lastly, I post a joke I once heard on Free Republic:
What is the difference between a Catholic and a Protestant? Catholics wave to each other in the liqour store.
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You're right. I should probably excuse myself from those threads. I actually did kick the habit for a few weeks after the Sept 11 tragedy. I got drawn back in when the outrageous claim that the Baptists were the first Christians and the Catholics broke away from them popped up again. That kind of stuff drives me nuts.
Maybe I should wear a patch, it might help me kick the habit.
My information on the apparition at Zeitoun is pretty sketchy, can you share some details of the in-country discussions? Were there a lot of conversions resulting?
A young newly-married Catholic couple were anxious to start a family. Unfortunately after a year or so they were still unsuccessful, so they decided to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes. In great faith and awe, they visited the shrine, lit a candle, and prayed for the Blessed Mother to intercede for them to her Son. Lo and behold, a month after their return from the shrine, the wife became pregnant, and over the next dozen years, the couple was blessed with ten healthy happy children! One day the couple announced to some friends that they would be making a return trip to Lourdes. Nodding understandingly, the friends asked "Going back to thank Our Lady for her intercession?" "No," they replied. "We're going back to blow out the candle."
Immediately after confirmation, your priest gives you the secret handshake and your own copy of the Notre Dame playbook.
I am a native Texan now living in the DFW area, where the Catholic population is now starting to exceed that of the Baptists because of northern and Tejano/Mexican in-migration.
I've read your posts. You do a fine job defending the faith. I'm from Rhode Island but I like you Texans. Fight the good fight.
Hot dog!
Which reminds me- - -When I attended my first mass (just to find out what goes on in the secret rituals) the man in the pew in front of me was attired in shorts and a Notre Dame sweatshirt. His family was similarly dressed. After communion they headed straight for the door, not sticking around for the rest of the service. Not to cast stones, or anything, but isn't that kind of disrespectful? I have since noticed that this kind of behavior is not at all uncommon.
The murderers in filthy nightshirts coming for your throats have made their intentions known:
Chief Superintendent Avelino Razon said a plot called "Project Bojinka" was uncovered by Philippine police in 1995 after arresting terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad in a Manila apartment where he was plotting to assassinate visiting Pope John Paul II.
Murad "is part of a terrorist cell established by Ramzi Yousef under the direction of Osama bin Laden," Razon said. Both Murad and Yousef were then wanted by US authorities for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
"In the course of the investigation, we found out through a laptop computer confiscated from Murad that they were also going to implement a terrorist plot called Project Bojinka," Razon, formerly Manila's police chief, said.
The plot called for the hijacking of US commercial airliners, bombing them or crashing them into several targets including the Central Intelligence Agency.
Get with it, folks.
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