Since I haven't posted in a while, a few random thoughts

[rymenhild]

In response to the latest news from the Vatican, cataptromancer has been writing Latin verse.

Sumus omnes peccatores
Humani viles et sunt mores -
Unde haec superbia
Quae te ad arcendos caros
Urget Dei cum ignaros
accipis in familia?

[We are all sinners, and human behavior is vile - whence this pride which drives you to exclude those dear to God and to accept into the family those who are ignorant of him?]

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Thanks to deborah_judge, I have now watched the Battlestar Galactica miniseries. I did enjoy it. The Biblical imagery is very clear, and the conflicts between the human characters are fascinating. President Laura Roslin, especially, is a fully-formed character. I have to admit that I'm not fond of the Cylons, though. Six, especially, earned my loathing from the first moment her dyed-blonde hair appeared on the television screen. Something about the artificiality of her femininity repels me utterly. Before I figured out what her name was, I started calling her Vagina Dentata; that should totally be her name. It's so much more descriptive than Six.

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My sister is coming tomorrow. In her honor, my apartment is nearly clean. Hopefully, it will be completely clean by the time her plane lands.

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Comments

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

". . . the document is calling the church back to its own discipline of ensuring that a man before ordination is psychologically, spiritually and emotionally capable of living this very demanding lifestyle," he said.

They'd better start excluding men with deeply rooted heterosexual tendencies, then.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Clearly, only asexuals should be eligible for priesthood.

I'm also fascinated about the bit forbidding prospective priests who "support 'gay culture'". I mean, what the hell does that mean?

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

The end of Vatican support for the arts?

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

I'm very curious about what my Catholic friends think about this ruling. Of course, I'm also totally incapable of asking, because I don't think they'll be comfortable telling me what they know if it's something I don't want to hear, and for, er, good reason.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Yay BSG!

[snowspinner.livejournal.com]

Why is it that medievalists all just go nuts for the vagina dentata?

[cataptromancer.livejournal.com]

Nuts, you say?