I know, I can't believe it either. Our friends to the north have elected a conservative. Prime minister-elect Stephen Harper, a free-market economist, is pro-America, pro-gun rights, pro-Iraq invasion, anti-Kyoto protocol, anti-socialist healthcare, and anti-abortion. Sorry Kelly.
Harper stupified the Canadian press during the final months of the campaign when he openly admitted that:
1) He thinks there might be a God
2) He thinks Canada should have its own military.
Shocking.
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this comes after years of far left liberal abuse. for
decades Canada's health care was paid 100% with tax dollars,
quality fell. Tolerance and diversity were embraced, "Broke
Back" marriage was legalized.
I hope we are seeing a parallel turn of events in the US as
well. the majority of Americans support "awesome Alito",
statistics say more high school kids are against abortion,
Bush is letting GM and Ford pay for their own Pension
deficit blunders, France is finally starting to act tough
against Islamism (but the Frogs will never be as tough as
us.) and there is good speculation that Sadam's WMDs will
be found in Syria. good times!
having this party in power is a hell of a lot better than the liberals, but the Conservative party in canada is about the same as out democrats here in the USA. the liberals in canada are wacked out michael moore types, and the conservatives are kind of like a john kerry or john edwards. does anyone remember Kerry identifying his faith as "Christian Catholic"? what does that mean?
Christian Catholic;
A person originally baptized as Catholic. One who oposses all teachings of the Catholic Magesterium, Scripture, and Tradition. He is excommunicated and therefore not allowed to receive Holy Communion. One in this condition attaches the word "Christian" to Catholic so as to say "I believed in the teachings of the Church before I disagreed with the teachings of the Church."
Is Christian Catholic a real thing or just something he made up? I wonder if Christian Catholics show up 2 mintues before "service" and get loaded before midnight mass(if they still call it mass).
Well, John Kerry created his whole life out of thin air.
If Christian Catholics do exist they are: the ones who hold hands during the Our Father (and also try to say it the loudest), who think wearing jeans and date night t-shirts are ok at Mass, don't know the difference between a Catholic hymn and the "Jesus I will find you" Christian pop song, who believe that full drum sets and bongos help "praise the lord", who attend Mass to "celebrate" Jesus with the community, who think lay person Eucharistic Ministry is an extension of Holy Orders, who believe whatever they believe because that's what they like, deny that there is an absolute right and wrong, say that Catholicism is "essentially the same" as other denominations, who see girl alter boys as "ok" because they believe men and women are absolute equals, ones who don't believe the above actions are wrong, and finally, ones that don’t think that Mass is devalued because of the above actions.
To sum up it, "Christian Catholics" (if they exist) are not Catholic, they're Christians who believe and do whatever they want.
Kerry says he will lead the filibuster against Alito. Watch it fail.
I'm attending Holy Spirit Catholic Church here in the ATL, and i missed the Sunday morning masses so i went to a 5:30 mass which is supposedly appealing to "young adults." Hate. that sums up my feelings of that experience. That mass motivates me to get up and go at 10 after drinking until 6 in the morning. Everything you mentioned above, stephen, happened in that mass. Almost 3/4 of the mass was sung by these two queers with guitars.
Don't worry TC, hang in there. There are a lot of people like you, me, and Pat. Don't stray from being Catholic, the people at the 5:00 youth Mass aren't Catholic. There is a large movement in the Church to bring Mass back to what it used to be. "Catholic Christians" have taken Vatican II as a right to practice whatever they want. That was not the intention of the Council, and Benedict VII knows that. The Pope has begun excommunicating these type of "Christian Catholics", starting with some parishes in the Pacific. But, I don't believe Benedict will totally enforce the correct way to conduct Mass as forcefully as we'd like. Some say the Pope after Benedict will. Benedict is seen as a transition Pope, yet he fells the same way as you do about "contemporary" Mass. Keep going to early Mass, that's what I have to do in Athens as well.
I'll tell you what I thought was a disturbing story. It's long, I apologize.
Last year me and my cousin Jack had to drive over to Atlanta because our younger cousins were being confirmed, and we were the sponsors. Anyway, we arrived w/ about 2 hours before mass, as instructed. About 100 or so of these kids were from St. Pius or Blessed Trinity, all had golf shirts (good) on and cargo pants (bad). All acted like they actually wanted to be there, which is weird.
As "mass" started I was startled to hear what sounded like a mix between Fleetwood Mac or the Indigo Girls, a 5 piece "jam-band" in the back. All the songs were the usual "praise Jesus"-like bullshit, not one single Catholic hymn or song.
But what annoyed me most is that throughout this one and half hour Woodstock of a confirmation was every single one of these 100 high school sophmores actively, unflinchingly joined and cooperated in all of the singing and hand-holding. There wasn't a single asshole in this group that had the balls to call anything in question. No one had any sense of humor or personality whatsoever, outside of what they'd watched on TRL or Laguna Beach. Could you imagine what would happen if you took the current sophmore class at BC and put them under this same scenario? Fever in the whorehouse, that's all I will say.
The best part came when they went to do the Our Father, and our Atlanta cousins standing beside us went to grab on to me and Jack's hands, at which point we turned to each of them and said, quietly "we don't do that back home, and we sure as hell aren't doing it here."
For all those attempting to attend a mass in Atlanta: The only mass I will go to is the 5:30 Sunday service at Christ the King near Buckhead on Peachtree Street. If I go to church at all, I am usually too hungover to attempt one of the morning services, so the 5:30 slot always wins. But the real reason I enjoy this mass is due to the fact that it is a more traditional mass (no hand holding/hippie music), and there is a large amount of attractive/young professional women in attendance. Totally worth it.
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