Old Stuff

When nuns attack

For those of you following the lesbian nun news beat. Here's the website for the Sisters of Mercy, which scores a 75 in the Jesus Christ Google category.

Rarr!

Big Arm Woman gives a synopsis of Return of the King. Strap your ass on!

Need a slavery-reparations laugh?

Vide.

Girl meets Pope

Crossville TN girl in Europe for surgery gets to meet pope.

Functions, functions, functions

January 7, 2004--87,160 formulas and 10,828 graphics about mathematical functions are now available free at The Wolfram Functions Site.

Created using Mathematica over the course of more than a decade by mathematical functions experts at Wolfram Research, The Wolfram Functions Site is an important new resource for mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and students.

Elementary mathematical functions, such as sine and cosine, are familiar to anyone who has taken high school mathematics, but in the applications of mathematics to science and engineering--as well as in pure mathematics itself--there are also several hundred so-called "special functions" that have been intensively used for a century or more.

These special functions--with names like Bessel functions, hypergeometric functions, and totient functions--define focal points of mathematical knowledge. If a problem can be solved in terms of, say, a Bessel function, then this immediately means that accumulated knowledge about Bessel functions can be applied. The Wolfram Functions Site provides in a readily accessible way the largest collection, by far, of such knowledge ever assembled.

Read more here.

Being Mel Gibson

Read Mel Gibson's fan mail. Anyone know how I can forward this stuff to him?

Once again, folks: though the resemblance is striking, I am not Mel Gibson.

We'll take what we can get

I guess things are looking up in the Diocese of Manchester in New Hampshire: "Christian Named Interim Pastor At St. Joseph".

Adventures in translation

"Would you like some Ass Sauce with that?" Spice up your curry today.

Hey hey holy mackerel

The Cubs are doing pretty well this year, so my blog is being flooded with google searches for the 1969 Cubs theme song. Here are the lyrics courtesy of Therese Z:

Hey, hey, holy mackerel,
no doubt about it,
the Cubs are on their way!

The Cubs are gonna hit today
they're gonna pitch today
they're gonna field today
come what may,
the Cubs are gonna win today!

Hey, hey holy mackerel
no doubt about it
The Cubs are on their way

They've got the hustle
they've got the muscle
the Chicago Cubs are on their way!!!

Picture searches

Since my recent post on using pictures of murdered babies as pro-life propaganda, I'm getting a boatload of hits from people searching the net for pictures of dead babies.

"Analysis"

This bit of "analysis" from UPI's senior writer Roland Flamini (biography here, scroll down a bit) provides a few laugh-out-loud moments. Perhaps UPI should have called up their religion editor, Uwe Siemon-Netto, for this one.

For example, did you know that Archbishop Angelo Amato is a member of the Silesian order? No, not the Salesians of Saint John Bosco, as a 5-second web search would reveal, but, apparently, the Silesians of Poland. :-)

We also learn that some folks in the Vatican -- or Holy See, as we diplomatic insiders call it -- are busy turning back those pesky clocks:

He needs to find a replacement for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Bavarian-born, rigidly conservative Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith who has been second in importance only to John Paul II himself in putting the clock back -- as many observers see it -- on the progressive reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

Ah, journalism.

Incense = child abuse

Just three days ago I wrote:

I don't think government should claim any authority over marriage, which is not only a sacrament but an integral part of the natural law, which precedes and supercedes any claims of government. The government has no more right to define the nature of marriage than it has to define the nature of, say, the Eucharist.

Give the government that power, and soon enough it will attempt to define the nature of the Eucharist; it will define our prayers and worship as child abuse, our Scriptures as hate speech, our acts of charity as crimes against humanity, and so on.

This morning I heard this story on the BBC's little radio show:

Concern over threat to health of incense
21/08/2003 - 19:34:31

The Catholic Church said today it would take seriously a Government minister's concern over the threat posed to health by the use of incense.

The health risk was raised by Dr Jim McDaid, Minister of State in the transport department.

He highlighted the threat, particularly to altar boys and girls, in a comment on one of Ireland's burning issues of the moment - a Government plan to ban smoking in the workplace from the start of next year.

Dr McDaid, who operated a medical practice before entering politics, and supports the smoking ban, insisted: "I am not anti-Church, anti-smoke or indeed against the use of incense."

"But there is a serious aspect to this. We all know that carbon is a carcinogenic agent, and wherever you have smoke, you are actually looking at carbon molecules.

"And wherever you have carbon molecules and happen to be inhaling them, then there is that chance that you will be doing damage.

"On a daily basis, we see people that are doing things that are detrimental to their health, and we all know they are doing that.

"There are other areas that, which with the untrained eye, people pay no attention to. But to the trained eye - such as that of a medical person - you sometimes see things which you know in your heart and soul, because of your medical background, can be detrimental to health.

"This is one little instance which I picked up on. It is something I have mentioned in the past to a number of clergy."

[read the rest of the report here]

Sick in Tillsonburg

Perhaps one shouldn't get sick in Tillsonburg, Ontario. Someone who works at Tillsonburg Hospital is googling for Bullshit Bingo.

Sodomy: "it's sacramental for me"

Mark Steyn has a magnificent fisking of Gene Robinson's erection, er, election.

Speaking of actors,

When I arrived at the office this evening the parking lot was packed and there was a crowd milling about in the lobby. A couple of RVs parked on the side of the street. Our office building is right next to a hotel, and sometimes this happens when some old hippie or a pack of dancers passes through town to play at the UIUC Assembly Hall. I found a path through the crowd and took an elevator upstairs.

About an hour later the fire alarms went off. I grabbed some books and headed to the main hallway - SMOKE! GAK! IT'S A REAL FIRE! Zoom down the stairs, smoke (or something - it's not quite smokey - it's DUST - like the World Trade Center!) getting thicker with each flight.

Waitaminnit - what's all this drywall and dust crap? And klieg lights?! I made my way down the final flights of stairs picking through garbage and dust and hot blinding lights and cables and broken drywall. At the bottom a couple of guys look up: "It's all taken care of, dude."

Turns out someone is filming part of a movie in our west stairwell. The crowd in the lobby appears to be a mixture of a) extras with gory facial makeup and dusty, torn clothes, and b) hangers-on. I guess the folks with makeup were in the stairwell when I arrived. Firefighters arrived after a couple of minutes to see whether there really was a fire (no, the dust triggered the alarms), then we all got back to work.

Ginger blah blah blah Ginger blah blah

This is why the so-called major networks need religion editors: the Ginger Factor.

You can't run a news network on thesis-antithesis-synthesis. CNN: the most trusted damnfool name in news.

ACME catalog now online

Need an anvil in a hurry? It's just a click away.

Oxymorons ahoy?

Can anyone think of some oxymorons as blatant as "homosexual marriage"? Might be useful in the coming "debate". Extra points for capturing the "barren fruitfulness" angle.

With my nifty use of "scare quotes", I can now apply for a job at Reuters.

New CERC update

The Catholic Educator's Resource Center has just released its August newsletter.

A Field Guide to North American Clergy and Religious

Someone oughtta write a book.

Note the delightful contrasts between these two varieties of Dominican Sister: habits, colors, expressions, ages, numbers, settings, retinue, etc. Click on the pictures for relevant links.

Nashville Dominicans

Grand Rapids Dominicans/"Sacred Earth and Space Plowshares action group"

None more cranky

Think I'm cranky? I've got nothing on Dr. Roy L. Branson, Jr. of Bristol, Tennessee. Some folks fixate on the strangest things.

Man, I'm cranky today

Must have been that damn McGriddle thing I had for breakfast.

Tracking the ruin of corporate culture

Lots of folks are googling for BS Bingo nowadays. Recent players include employees of Clorox, T. Rowe Price, IBM, AstraZeneca and folks in the Navy.

I don't get it

It's a cute stunt, I guess. They're "stopping in dioceses and parishes to raise awareness about poverty in the United States"; perhaps these poverty dilettantes will ride by our house and let me know which bills not to pay this month. Whatever, Bishops. When you're poor, you're already aware of poverty. When you're rich, a bunch of activist geeks on bikes will pry money out of your wallet?

Their logo is just too damned cute for words, ain't it:

Delusional

Carl Olson has discovered what appears to be the germ of an attempt to define religious belief as a mental illness. Might be interesting to write up a sci-fi (for lack of a better label) story based on that premise, assuming the deconstructionist psychobabble can resolve itself into police-state actions in a totalitarian democracy (see paragraph 20 of Evangelium Vitae; also see Canada).

A few breaths of the zeitgeist here, here, and here.

Update There's nothing new under the sun, of course - see John 10:20. Perhaps every persecution, insult and muttered gripe against Christ recorded in the Gospels is destined to be developed in its fullness in history.

The Barnaby Jones Theme

The recent death of Buddy Ebsen prompted many radio stations to play the theme song of his 1970s detective show Barnaby Jones. That show had a kick-ass theme song, no?

When you hear the phrase "A Quinn Martin Production", what TV show comes to mind? For me, it's The Streets of San Francisco.

Gunsmoke episode guide

Sometimes even the Gunsmoke episode guide comes in handy. The Angry Land, seen on TV Land a few nights ago while feeding the baby (yes, I should have been doing nearly anything other than watching Gunsmoke), was a mighty silly exercise in modern psychoanalysis.

Unfortunately, the Gunsmoke episode guide isn't nearly as detained as Eric Weisstein's Star Trek plot summaries. (Original series only, none of this namby-pamby Next Generation crapola.)

Father Joe Campbell, a.k.a. "Kodiak Joe"

Meet Father Joe Campbell, former professional wrestler.

Southern Baptists, Mel Gibson and Jesus

Southern Baptists discover Mel's new movie - a refreshingly positive article.

How times have changed

From the archives of my hometown newspaper:

40 Years Ago
To blast off groundbreaking ceremonies for the Lake Shelbyville reservoir on May 4, 1963, the Army Corps of Engineers ordered a shaped charge of TNT to simulate the fireball and mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb.
An audience of 40,000 was expected to watch from a half-mile distance.

Check the sacristy!

Odd, isn't it?

Meanwhile, the war on terror at home took a new twist last night after it was claimed chemical warfare protection suits had been discovered at a mosque in north London.
A newspaper reported the suits had been found at the Finsbury Park mosque, which was raided last Monday by officers who at the time said only that they had recovered CS gas and a stun gun.
According to the reports, the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) are being analysed to see if they show any traces of chemicals including ricin, the deadly poison seized during a similar raid on a flat in north London earlier this year.

NBC suits and chem warfare materials - just the stuff we store in our parish's sacristy. No wonder it's always locked...

Google and Blogspot

Google buys Pyra.

Hat tip: Instapundit

Blecch

Normally I have an iron stomach, but if I read one more story about Michael Jackson's face I'm gonna hurl.

Tip of the hatChurn of the stomach: ibidem

Sigh

It's the little things. My wife heard yesterday that during the televised coverage of a memorial service for the Columbia astronauts, with their familes in attendance, each time Willie McCool's name was mentioned the cameraman focused on Michael Anderson's family. They're black, so of course they're Willie's family.

Someone in St. Blog's recently noted the rising number of headline typos, too. As the "schools" turn out more and dumber "students", we'll see more journalistic stupidity and fewer people noticing it.

This Would Be Bizarre...

..if it weren't in the National Catholic Distorter Reporter. It appears that the breaking news on a recent cover of NCR is a 1988 Vatican ruling on abortion. Next week's issue: Bush beats Dukakis.

Engrish As She Is Spoke

Mangled captions for The Two Towers. Once again Big Arm Woman makes me laugh out loud in my cube.

Mel and I

I have unleashed the power of the blog. Since everything I put on my blog appears in google's top ten results, I'm getting a flood of visitors looking for information on Mel Gibson's new movie.

The Worst Reporting Ever

Yes, even worse than Ashleigh Banfield running babbling down a New York street on September 11. It's a rural scene in a field or yard near a fence. A man and two boys are standing side by side, standing solemnly, gazing down at a piece of shuttle debris. Off-screen commentary, distracted and offhand, is provided by Fox's Anglo-Saxon guy with big scary hair.

Cue imagined thoughts from the scarcely human cameraman: Ooh, it's a helmet. Let's zoom in on the battered, charred, empty helmet. Check out those scrapes on top! Closer. See where it's burned? Hey, I can see inside! Hell, let's zoom all the way in. Closer. Now we're just inches away from the inner lining, into which are embedded short gray human hairs. Let's linger. Mmmmm baby, that's good.

The next scene: a respectfully covered human body in a quiet glade lit by the afternoon sun, hearse parked nearby with its back doors open, the area surrounded by police tape. At least the authorities got there before Fox did.

Space Shuttle Breaks Apart During Reentry

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/status.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/01/shuttle.columbia/index.html

The Shuttle Lost blog - excellent coverage.

Resources for coverage of the shuttle disaster.

Wind Chill: -23F

This sucks.

Handy Guide to the Church of Moloch

If you're ever travelling and you need to find the local Church of Moloch, just consult this handy guide.

Sharia

Remember that word "sharia."

Three more heads roll in Saudi Arabia:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Three Saudi men convicted of armed robbery were beheaded Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Khalaf bin Ramadan al-Anzi, Nayef al-Hazemi and Thaher al-Anzi were found guilty of taking drugs and robbing an exchange company, said the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

The ministry did not say when the men were sentenced to death but said they were beheaded Tuesday in the northeastern province of Arar.

The execution raised to at least 49 the number of people beheaded this year in the conservative Gulf kingdom. At least 81 people were beheaded in 2001.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam, imposing the death penalty for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery.

Beheadings are carried out in public with a sword.

Tip of the hat: lgf

Back to China

Asylum request denied: China's reproductive policies and forced gynecological exams aren't persecution.

Cleaning Up the Links

I've been adding so many blog links in the right column that my list of blogs is rivalling the official membership rolls, so I'll let Gerard's list suffice for St. Blog's and begin adding an ecumenical outreach section.

Preaching Guide for Advent

New from the USCCB. Catechism + lectionary readings = good stuff.

World Press Review

This looks useful if you're into international news.

Tip o' the hat: Little Green Footballs.

Thanks!

Many thanks to John DaFiesole for his fun post, good advice and helpful links, and to all who are praying for me. Ain't Saint Blog's great?

PEA Security?

If you've been involved in setting up security for a perpetual adoration chapel, please contact me at billw@wolfram.com. I've been named head of security for the new PEA program at our parish in Champaign, Illinois, perhaps because of my Chestertonian bouncer's physique :-)

BCL Newsletter

The August 2002 newsletter of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy has been released on the web, and it's chock-full of goodies:

The liturgical commemorations of eighteen Saints have been newly included in the Universal Calendar of the recently revised Missale Romanum, editio typica tertia. Because the USA Liturgical Calendar is prepared two years in advance, these saints have not been included in the Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States 2003. Since the Missale Romanum, editio typica tertia and its calendar are in effect, however, the following notes are offered on the observance of these celebrations in 2003. It should be noted, however, that during the year 2003, the celebrations for Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort (April 28th), Our Lady of Fatima (May 13th) and Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and his companions (November 24th) are not observed as optional memorials since they fall on Sundays.

Rogues Gallery

Sigh. More gray-haired baby boomers spouting off.

Call Me Giorgio

Which Founding Father Are You?

The description here isn't quite right, but I guess this disclaimer is part of what makes me Washington.

Everyone's Doing It

what foreign language are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

Sounds good to me.

Quotes To Go

Catholic quotes for journalists.

Vatican Library Digitized

Ancient Manuscripts Go Online

Hewlett-Packard has been tapped by Pope John Paul II to provide public online access to the Vatican's Apostolic Library, which will include posting images of manuscripts that have only been accessible to professional scholars and professors.

As part of its philanthropy program, HP has been providing its infrastructure technology to assist the Vatican with adding Apostolic Library access to its existing Web site. The company has also been helping build faster access to the Vatican Library site, and enabling navigation of the bibliographic database, according to a statement from both HP and the Vatican on Tuesday.

The Apostolic Library information will become available on the Vatican Library's existing Web site this week.

Cold and Rain, Bless the Lord

Today in central Illinois: cold, windy, rain all day, the sky darkened by clouds, and now that we've changed the time, complete darkness by 5:30! This is my kind of weather. I suppose it's even better in Great Britain, where Bede says that in winter the days are only six hours long. I think I'd like to join James Herriot on the Yorkshire moors on a dark and rainy November evening.

There's a feeling of exhilaration when walking through the cold windswept rainy evening, and nothing beats snuggling up safe and sound on a stormy freezing night.

I'm reminded of Saint Malachy, a poem by Thomas Merton. His The Seven Storey Mountain help me to return to the Church after a funeral Mass brought to my remembrance the grace of my Baptism. Saint Malachy captures the falling leaves, the dripping rain and the foggy quiet; the only thing the poem lacks is cold; I guess they don't very often have the privilege of a cold driving rain down in Kentucky.

You can find the poem in the back of each volume of the American Liturgy of the Hours. I couldn't find a copy on the web and the kids won't let me type the whole thing tonight. Perhaps Steven Riddle has an electronic copy tucked away somewhere, or knows of other cold and rainy poems.

ST. MALACHY
IN: POETRY 73 n.5 (FEBRUARY 1949) p.255-256

Aubrey-Maturin Movie News

The New York Times on Peter Weir's POB movie. Seems to me that the NYT has some of the best essayists working today.

NRO on Ben Stein

Ellyn vonHuben points out a National Review article on Ben Stein. I used to buy American Spectator just for Mr. Stein's column.

Assisi Frescoes Repaired

Short article, nice collection of links.

P. J. O'Rourke Goes to Egypt

Letter From Egypt

"There is a question," our correspondent writes, "that less-sophisticated Americans ask (and more-sophisticated Americans would like to): Why are people in the Middle East so crazy? Here, at the pyramids, was an answer from the earliest days of civilization: People have always been crazy."

Resources for Deacons

Collected here.

• FAQs on the Diaconate
• The Permanent Diaconate Today: 2000 CARA Report
• The Deacon and the Ministry of Word
• The Deacon and the Ministry of Sacrament (Liturgy)
• The Deacon and the Ministry of Charity
• Protocol for the Incardination/Excardination of Deacons
• Deacon Digest
• USCCB Publishing on the Diaconate

Architecture of the Padre Pio Basilica

Here's an interesting article from the Guardian about the new basilica at Padre Pio's shrine.

In the name of the padre

Renzo Piano, co-creator of the Pompidou Centre, has pulled off another masterpiece, says Jonathan Glancey

Monday September 30, 2002 The Guardian

Late this summer, I flew from Foggia in southern Italy to Klagenfurt, Austria, as a homage to my Uncle Jack who died on a bombing mission between those two points with 70 Squadron RAF in July 1944. Climbing out of Foggia, over woods of oak, yew and pine, my eye was caught by one of the most extraordinary building sites to be found on any flight path. Halfway between the highest mountains in the Gargano, Monte Nero and Monte Calvo, I circled above what promises to be one of the most striking and popular pilgrimage shrines ever.

Sick of something in New Zealand

Someone from New Zealand's Ministry of Health found my BS Bingo page via xtramsn.co.nz.

Please note that I didn't invent BS Bingo.

Priest Who Survived Dachau Dies at 91

Monsignor Joseph Gluszek of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings has died at age 91. His obituary is in the Billings Gazette.

Here's a bit about another remarkable priest, Father Joseph Ponessa, in the same diocese. His doctoral thesis: Doubling Elements In Luke 22:15-20 and 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 in the Light of Ancient Languages and Literatures (Mod.: R.P. Albert Vanhoye, S.J.) 

News on the Web

Google's new news site is looking much better than Yahoo's.

Note to Self

Run ~/fromhome.sh after restarting billwlx

Need a Garage?

I'll be out of town and away from computers til Monday - we're traveling to Franklin, Indiana, to celebrate some birthdays and help at one of your old-fashioned traditional Midwest family garage sales.

Stop Reading My Blog

and read Victor Lam.

Quo Vadis, Thesaurus?

Check your bookmarks - Thesaurus Precum Latinarum has moved.

The Five-Dollar Doctor

An obituary from the New York Times (free registration required):

Salvator Altchek, 'the $5 Doctor' of Brooklyn, Dies at 92

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Salvator Altchek, known for 67 years as the $5 doctor to the melting pot of Brooklyn, especially the poorer residents of affluent Brooklyn Heights, died on Tuesday. He was 92.

He continued to work until two months ago, but gave up house calls five years ago. He delivered thousands of babies and generally attended to the health needs of anyone who showed up at his basement office in the Joralemon Street row house in the Heights where he lived, charging $5 or $10 when he charged at all.

See the Times for the rest of Dr. Altchek's story.

Woodlief Rules

Tony Woodlief has one great blog. Thanks to the Cranky Professor for mentioning him.

25 Days and Counting

I've been blogging for twenty-five days now. Either I've escaped detection or Nihil obstat has met his match in the grammar and spelling department.

Buddhist Display in Anglican Cathedral

Sean Gallagher and Simon Russell (new blogger!) are blogging about a display of Buddhist art, or a display of something while a recording of "Om" plays in the background. Anyway, it's on display in the Anglican cathedral of Canterbury, England.

Canterbury Cathedral has been accused of promoting "New Age" beliefs in a new art work which features video pictures of a naked baby to a soundtrack of Buddhist chanting.

The installation in the cathedral's 900-year-old crypt has upset evangelicals who say that the repeated use of the sound "om", which is regarded as sacred by both Buddhists and Hindus, is incompatible with Christianity.

James Akin - Blogger

Stop reading and head over to James Akin's new blog.

Xenotransplants

Slashdot is carrying a story about xenotransplants. In case you were wondering, xenotransplantation has been discussed by the Vatican in recent years:

Address of John Paul II to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society: 29 August 2000

Message of John Paul II to a Congress Organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life on the Justness of "Xenotransplants": 1 July 2001

Pontifical Academy for Life: Prospects for Xenotransplantation: Scientific Aspects and Ethical Considerations: 26 September 2001

Blogger Challenge: Divine Mercy

I read a lot of bloggers when I can, but I think Bill Cork is the first to mention (tangentially) what happened in Poland last weekend. Yes, there were some beatifications and the largest crowds in Poland's history, but I'm talking about what really happened: the Pope solemnly consecrated the world to Divine Mercy.

I've been meaning to write up a little entry on it but I haven't had time to read the sources and do it justice. Your assignment, thou good Blogger, is to fill us in on the consecration and what it might mean for all of us. Meanwhile, I have to get the house in shape before Lisa's parents get here!

That Makes Two of Us

I've never understood the Bruce Springsteen cult...come to think of it, I've never understood the man himself, what with his moaning groaning monotone and three-chord ditties. Finally, I've found a kindred spirit: Mark Gauvreau Judge.

Stop reading my blog now

and go to Mark Shea's column at Heart, Mind & Strength.

How does she do it?

If you don't read Amy Welborn's blog, you're out of the loop. Does she have an intravenous news feed?

St. Elvis

Sigh. Why do these things happen?

The Apotheosis of Elvis

After hearing NPR's hagiographical account of the life and death of Elvis Presley, I'm wondering when we'll begin seeing black velvet renditions of the Apotheosis of the King, ascending to the right hand of his Father in glory. Sheesh.

As my wife noted today, the media coverage, especially the interviews of poor dopes hanging out at Graceland, shows that folks who don't have a liturgical calendar really have a deep need for one; people who have no saints to venerate will nevertheless venerate.

I Killed Elvis

As Amy Welborn asks, Where were you when you heard the news? I was on the couch in our living room one evening when Mom came home and told me what had happened. It was pretty big news for an 11-year-old fan.

By the way, the mysterious circumstances of his death can now be revealed: I killed Elvis. I somehow discovered his music in 4th or 5th grade and became a big fan, then he died. I became a Keith Green fan, then he died. I became a John Lennon fan, you know the story. Years later I discovered Stevie Ray Vaughn, then his helicopter crashed. I rediscovered George Harrison's music and he up and died. Fortunately, Patrick O'Brien was already dead when I discovered his books. It's a miracle that Johnny Cash has survived this long - he should have keeled over around 1970 when I first started listening to his music.

It's about dang time...

...someone ordained a skinny bishop: see the story and pictures at Gerard Serafin's fine blog.

This Just In

The Archbishop of Miami gives a sort of heads-up on the Internet. What it is, be careful, et cetera.