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The U.S. Bishops use a "they" shall crush the serpent's head.

At this point in time, I consider the vast majority of U.S. bishops to be serpents themselves. Just this week, they'll celebrate Ascension Thursday on a Sunday.

Still, the DR is a lonely outcast nowadays.

Yeah, have you ever wondered why? The novus ordo Catholics have protestantized the Mass, the Sacraments, the Catechsim and the Bible.

**Still, the DR is a lonely outcast nowadays.**

So is the Jerusalem Bible which is used in many places around the world. My son loves the Douay Rheims; I lean more toward the Jerusalem or the RSV. The Revised NAB is posted first on the Readings threads, only because the formatting is the best with links to the Bible.

At this point in time, I consider the vast majority of U.S. bishops to be serpents themselves. Just this week, they'll celebrate Ascension Thursday on a Sunday.

How dare them. So snake-y, like a bunch of little James Carvilles runnin' round hopey-changing ever-thin...oh wait...you said "snakes" not snakeheads, sorry but I thought I caught a glimpse of a squirrel or something out of the corner of my eye and got distracted...

Now where were we again before the Sky-Pilots go to the pop-movies, going all Samuel L. Jackson on

~~The Vatican~~

Oh, that's right, Genesis 3:15. It had something or another to do with snakes, didn't it?

Snake heads (James Carville's) being stepped on, NOT by a "her", but by the rather strangely expressed "her seed" which is given either neutral or male gender in the Hebrew texts (Jerome says male or "he" as I noted) and an unequivocal "he" shall crush the serpents's head in the Greek texts (woops! Augustine is going to be aghast, for there went the "seventy" translators under the bus -- or was that a 747's landing gear?).

Which leaves things to be, that now, even according to the Vatican and what they present as Scripture, not anymore is it that a "she" would be doing the stepping out and stepping on the "James Carville" herself personally, as the now sad & lonely Douay-Rheims would have it, since that not-so-good supporting cast, the old Vulgate, has gone bumpety-bump under the wheels too.

From "old" Vulgate

inimicitias ponam inter te et mulierem
et semen tuum et semen illius
ipsa conteret caput tuum
et tu insidiaberis calcaneo eius

And again from present-day, Vatican approved" Vulgate

Inimicitias ponam inter te et mulierem
et semen tuum et semen illius;
ipsum conteret caput tuum,
et tu conteres calcaneum eius”.

The "Magesterium" appears to have altered the text from what had previously long circulated.

Yeah, have you ever wondered why? The novus ordo Catholics have protestantized the Mass, the Sacraments, the

Catechsim and the Bible.

So now we take the strike-through marking off of the listing for

4) The Vatican

???

Perhaps the question now is if Samuel L. Jackson can get one of the doors open and jump --- without a parachute --- will "Mary" catch him before he hits the ground? Or was he even "flying" on a plane in the first place, since it was just a movie?

Silver wings
shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines
headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away,

leaving me lonely

Silver wings
slowly fading out of sight...