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by Highlander
Wed Oct 22, 2025 4:20 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: King Charles to become first British monarch to pray publicly with Pope in 500 years
Replies: 13
Views: 169

Re: King Charles to become first British monarch to pray publicly with Pope in 500 years

Were that the case, I would look to seeing disestablishment in each party's platform forthwith. Perhaps with another plank making Islam its replacement.
by Highlander
Wed Oct 22, 2025 12:32 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Bishops need to address Trump immigration crackdown: Pope Leo
Replies: 16
Views: 406

Re: Bishops need to address Trump immigration crackdown: Pope Leo

I had intended to communicate that, if the Bishops felt the need to take a stand, then that stand should be to enforce immigration law while not treating those being processed within its bounds inhumanely. Which really doesn't seem to be a problem. Supporting consequences of illegal immigration such...
by Highlander
Wed Oct 22, 2025 12:20 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: I have new found respect for New Mexico!
Replies: 19
Views: 418

Re: I have new found respect for New Mexico!

So, per the above, the Solar System now has four planets.

This is fun.
by Highlander
Wed Oct 22, 2025 12:14 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: New "Archbishop" of Canterbury is a woman
Replies: 47
Views: 1782

Re: New "Archbishop" of Canterbury is a woman

A thought is that, with all the above going on, some parts and some people in Europe would benefit from Catholic missionaries.
by Highlander
Tue Oct 21, 2025 11:59 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: King Charles to become first British monarch to pray publicly with Pope in 500 years
Replies: 13
Views: 169

Re: King Charles to become first British monarch to pray publicly with Pope in 500 years

There are rumors that King Charles may be considering conversion. That is an individual act. I don't think that would necessarily imply the CofE would come with him. Bringing up V2 in this context seems...random. As I recall, imperfectly, such a conversion would require abdication. BTW, the ability...
by Highlander
Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:59 pm
Forum: The Lyceum
Topic: The First is the Greatest
Replies: 1
Views: 46

Re: The First is the Greatest

Interesting. Makes sense. Perhaps someone more versed that I can comment.

This is why theology is beyond me.
by Highlander
Tue Oct 14, 2025 10:07 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: I have new found respect for New Mexico!
Replies: 19
Views: 418

Re: I have new found respect for New Mexico!

So, if it has several moons, and having several moons makes it a planet....

... and ....

the Earth has only one moon...

... so ...

the Earth is not a planet.


If that logic was good enough for Monty Python, then it's good enough for me.
by Highlander
Mon Oct 13, 2025 1:05 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Church security
Replies: 14
Views: 1353

Re: Church security

I'm a pastor of country parishes. I'm willing to bet that I have parishioners who are packing at every Mass. But there is a difference between being armed and being ready. It is easy to get caught flat footed when something happens that you don't expect. In big cities at least, sadly, there appears...
by Highlander
Mon Oct 13, 2025 1:04 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Church security
Replies: 14
Views: 1353

Re: Church security

... what is going on.
by Highlander
Mon Oct 13, 2025 1:03 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Church security
Replies: 14
Views: 1353

Re: Church security

A man is accused of urinating on the Altar of the Confession at St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday, prompting a swift response from security personnel and drawing the attention of many visitors. Security staff and plainclothes police officers quickly intervened and escorted the man out of the church, a...
by Highlander
Mon Oct 13, 2025 1:01 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Church security
Replies: 14
Views: 1353

Re: Church security

I have no idea ....
by Highlander
Sun Oct 12, 2025 7:18 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Bishops need to address Trump immigration crackdown: Pope Leo
Replies: 16
Views: 406

Re: Bishops need to address Trump immigration crackdown: Pope Leo

Perhaps the Bishops could address immigration enforcement by heartily endorsing it ... while advocating humane treatment of the deportees.
by Highlander
Sun Oct 12, 2025 7:16 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Catholic altar wine replaced after becoming a favourite in Kenyan bars
Replies: 2
Views: 71

Re: Catholic altar wine replaced after becoming a favourite in Kenyan bars

Could have sold the wine and financed a lot of the Church's needs.
by Highlander
Sun Oct 12, 2025 7:14 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Church security
Replies: 14
Views: 1353

Re: Church security

A man is accused of urinating on the Altar of the Confession at St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday, prompting a swift response from security personnel and drawing the attention of many visitors. Security staff and plainclothes police officers quickly intervened and escorted the man out of the church, a...
by Highlander
Sun Oct 12, 2025 12:44 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: I have new found respect for New Mexico!
Replies: 19
Views: 418

Re: I have new found respect for New Mexico!

I would, but it is exhausting.

Let me clean that up....
by Highlander
Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:08 pm
Forum: Catholicism 101
Topic: Why is contemporary liturgical music so terrible?
Replies: 59
Views: 12997

Re: Why is contemporary liturgical music so terrible?

Riverboat wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 10:13 pm
peregrinator wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 10:25 am soixante-huitards
Now, there's a term I need to work into my conversation. ...
Which team do you prefer? The 49ers of the soixante-huitards?

There you go.
by Highlander
Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Charlie Kirk RIP
Replies: 5
Views: 31175

Re: Charlie Kirk RIP

Several mass intentions for Charlie in our parish.
by Highlander
Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:01 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Bishops need to address Trump immigration crackdown: Pope Leo
Replies: 16
Views: 406

Re: Bishops need to address Trump immigration crackdown: Pope Leo

There has been a series of videos where an interviewer gets folks to sign a petition demanding illegals be housed wherever and by whomever. Folks sign, agreeing that denying housing is denying a basic human right, requiring extraordinary measures. Then the interviewer asks the folks to sign a contra...
by Highlander
Sat Oct 11, 2025 9:51 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: I have new found respect for New Mexico!
Replies: 19
Views: 418

Re: I have new found respect for New Mexico!

Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet ... or a Kuiper Belt object, depending on your POV. However, I think the NM legislature was commemorating Mickey's dog. We get confused round here about stuff like that. One example is the claim that an annual local community Catholic pilgrimage has been conducte...
by Highlander
Sat Oct 11, 2025 9:50 pm
Forum: The Pub
Topic: I have new found respect for New Mexico!
Replies: 19
Views: 418

Re: I have new found respect for New Mexico!

... repetition.