Reading a post by diogene on CWN, (hat tip to Some Have Hats), I had to laugh at the address by Revd Professor Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.

In an address to the annual conference of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement in London she criticises the idea that the Church is made up of different body parts (cf. St Paul).

"Body-of-Christ imagery is not apt for the human side of the Church.

As has happened a few times before, another school parent talked about how cute it was that her daughter "had a boyfriend."

To quote a past Australian politician "I don't like it!"

I am told I am being overly sensitive, but the children are only 8 years old for goodness sake!

Are there any other parents who have come across this idea of children coupling up (however innocently)? If so, how do you deal with it?
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"It doesn't matter who wins, so long as we all participated."

As much as I was raised in a public schooling system that drilled this motif into my psyche, when I heard it from my son's physical education teacher I ground my teeth. "If it doesn't matter who wins, then why would anyone try?" was my son's reply. Well spoken that lad!

Don't get me wrong, I am not one of these parents who must see their child succeed at all costs.
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Listening politely to lengthy explanations and arguments among good Catholic friends about the re-introduction (or not) of the 'traditional' Latin Mass, I have often wondered why the Novus Ordo isn't said in Latin much more often.

After all, nobody needs a 'Motu', or even permission from their ordinary to say the new Mass in Latin. In fact, when you read Vatican II documents on the matter they assume that the Mass will be said in Latin.
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With the growing interest in blogville in the Motu Proprio, I have been thinking I should attempt to understand what it's all about. I must confess, however, that I've never been able to get myself worked up about liturgy in itself.

Like the rest of us I have sat through enough mediocre to awful liturgies to last me for a lifetime. Bad liturgy does disturb me, but not just because it's bad liturgy. It disturbs me because liturgical abuse is a symptom of much more serious spiritual problems.

Jackie of Catholic Mom of 10 fame posted a cheeky thought starter having a go at smacking as a method of discipline. Well, you know me. I can't resist a chance to get a little controversial! :) So here is my rather cheeky reply. ;)

I agree that smacking with household implements or even with one's hand can get out of hand far too easily.
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Many thanks to DGD for his amazing response to my request that he review the entire Bone story on his SciFi Catholic blog.

For those who don't know, Bone is an adult comic encompassing an epic saga of loyalty, love and a lot of old style good 'everyman' hero takes on major-evil-bad-dude type. While being original enough to stand alone in a world becoming increasingly saturated with this genre, Bone is consistantly amusing, challenging and suprisingly moral in an understated way.
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From another SMH article on marriage,

...the idea of "try before you buy" gives all the advantages to men, who get the benefits of marriage with none of the responsibilities. They get sex on tap, domesticity, companionship, and probably nutritional and hygiene improvements.

They can test-drive the merchandise for as long as they like. But for women, the immovable biological fact of declining fertility means the deal is inevitably unfair.
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Reporting that The Assemblies of God (AOG) communities in Australia have voted to allow remarriages where the divorce involved "serious physical abuse" or where an unbelieving spouse had walked out, the Sydney Morning Herald cited Pastor Danny Nalliah, a conservative pentecostal/evangelical as opposing the decision saying,

"Divorce must be kept in line with scripture and remarriage should only be on the grounds of sexual infidelity, as upheld by Christian leaders for the past 20 centuries"

Err

Trying for one of those "pass the legend on" moments, I sat on the bench where I proposed to my wife and tried to tell my children the story of that night. It turned out roughly as follows,

(children's ages in parenthesis),

Dad: Come here kids, I want to tell you a story about this seat.

Son(9): Did Grandpa make this?

Dad: No, I want to tell you about a time when I sat here with Mummy.
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