Albany bishop back battling in the streets

But it would make them think.

Here is some signage catechetical info which is unavailable from your local Diocesan Office:

Why 30" wide?
That is one dimension of the 30"x40"x 3/16" thick foam board which is available at your favorite Office Supply store. Foam board is more durable than cardboard. They also have other sizes.

Why 18" high?
That is the size of the widest piece of paper that the "Zoomer" copy machine will accept at Kinkos. You can use multiple pieces of paper to make taller signs.

Paper that you might call Astrobrite or its equivalent can be obtained at a local Art Supply store. It comes in a variety of colors. A common size is 28"x22". Kinkos will gladly slice the 22" dimension down to 18" (for the Zoomer). The 28" dimension can be extended with scrap pieces to fill out the color width to the 30" foam board width. Allow for an adequate color margin around the sign lettering.

A waterproof exterior grade glue (16oz plastic squeeze bottle) can be obtained at Home Depot. They also have 1"x2"x8' pieces of wood. Cut them in half. Use 1" long coarse drywall screws to attach the sign to the wood. Use an appropriate sized flat washer with each drywall screw to better (spread the pressure) grip the paper&foam board to the 1"x2".

Why 1" drywall screws? If you use anything longer it will stick through the other side. You don't want anything sharp to damage adjacent signs as you take them from place to place. And, being sharp, they hurt when you get stuck by one.
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In the beginning, when you have an idea for a sign, type it in to your computer and lay it out to see how it looks. Bold letters can be seen best. Avoid a fancy font unless you need a special effect. Think about centering and spacing. Also consider using 2 spaces between words so that they might be easier to read from a distance.
Use as large a 'point' size as practical for the letters. Try size 36 or 48. Smaller size letters might be good for occasional use with transition words such as 'and'. Italics could be used for occasional emphasis, but like pepper it could be used too much.
A sign should use as few words as possible to clearly convey the message.

Print the pages and take these "masters" to a zerox machine that has 11"x17" paper. Zoom it up as large as possible on the 11"x17" paper. The zooming range will probably be between 200 and 350. Do not be satisfied with a machine that has "toner" problems. The lettering needs to be as dark and as crisp as possible. The output of this step is the next generation master, NGM.

Trim the NGM's left margin down to aprox 1/2". A small amount of margin on the left side will allow for the largest zoom-up in the next step.

Trim the top/bottom margins to be of equal width. Fold in half (just a little bit at the left end) to get a visual mid-point crease mark. Take the NGM to the Zoomer and set it on the glass such that the crease mark is at the 'centering arrow' of the Zoomer.

Use the 'low' cost plain white paper 18"x24" on the rack near the Zoomer to test the amount of zooming you want goin on. Your range will probably be between 150 and 180. You can use both sides of the white paper for test purposes.
After each test copy is made, lay the test page on your color paper to see how it will fit. If the test paper is not as wide (long) as the color paper then you will need to estimate if it will fit when you choose to use the color paper. Just because all the letters can't fit on the shorter test paper does not mean they won't fit on the longer color paper.

When you are satisfied then feed in the color paper for the final copy. Be sure to be at the output end of the Zoomer to lightly hold the (longer) color paper so it won't hangup in the output tray and cause a false jam in the Zoomer.

If for some reason you don't like the result, make the zoom amount reselection, place the paper into the Zoomer feeder blank side up. No problem, the bad side of a 'redo' is going to have glue on it anyway.

I believe "over yonder" brevity of directions to be uncharitable.
Please distribute this post to sign makers in Albany, Cleveland, LA, and any other Diocese or Parish where orthodox Catholics have a problem to fix.

"EWTN" and "Mother Angelica" are code words... you say them and watch for the reaction.

Kind of like the reaction of demons to holy water.

Another thing to thank Mother Angelica for!

She is truly a gift.

would start to squirm and look uncomfortable whenever Bishop Sheen would start talking about the Cross

Precisely! That is why we don't have one in my 'former' parish. The cross was too much of a reminder for the sodomite priest.

Hey, according to this media panegyric, we should just canonize Hubby now and get it over with. He is, after all, a living saint who is being "crucified" by his critics and accusers.

What do you want to bet that the guy who wrote this article is a member of the buggery brigade?

Pursuant to my prior post, I did a little google search on Michael Gormley, the writer of this story. It seems he writes an awful lot about "gay" issues. He's an AP writer, so perhaps that's not too surprising.

However, there's also a Michael Gormley who writes for the "Gay City News." (I'm not going to post a link to that wretched waste of bandwidth--it's as repellent as you might imagine). What do you want to bet, based on the ridiculous spin of this article, that it's the same person?

If that be the case, it appears that Hubby has called in some of his lavender friends in the media to help him out of a jam.

Well, they do have Catholic themes on that show constantly.