The so-called Panza Cardinal, God's Rottweiler, the totalitarian doctrinaire, as he was initially portrayed by his enemies on his election, seems to have won people over in time.

The Gentle German, a title I think more fitting, has not pulled his punches in an effort to play it soft with the antagonists. The B16 Bomber, as Fr Stan Fortuna calls him, has dropped a dose of his Vitamin B16 into many an aging liberal's nursing home pill tray, doing all the things they predicted would cause a general uprising in the Catholic faithful.
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Just a quick note to point out I have updated the Blogville list (right) to better reflect my regular reading. There are other blogs I check out, but the ones listed are ones I regularly check in on and recommend you check out too!

The updates:

The Straight Talking Dad has switched his blog name, and my link is updated. I loved the name of his new blog!

I have added Scorpion Stalking Duck which I have been a fan of for some time.
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And speaking of big girls at school, little sisters watch on with envy.
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It's been a while in coming but I'm finally able to post the 'first day at school' pic for the irrepressible young lady in the middle. Her excitement with each new activity has barely waned even now we are closing on the Easter break. Every night that I come home she has one more new and exciting thing to share with me.
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A customer returned a Bible to our bookshop today, complaining that some verses were missing. I was called down to check the Bible and found that it was indeed missing 5 verses! I checked the passage in other copies of the same Bible, also gone! I checked other publishers versions of the NAB, also missing the 5 verses!

19 But I was like a gentle lamb

led to the slaughter.
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Though I regularly read the blogs listed in my "blogville" panel (right) I rarely refer to things that interest me unless I feel I have something more to offer on the topic. This quote, however, is worth posting on it's own. From David Schütz blog

One who has never disagreed with others about religion is not thereby tolerant but is treating religious differences as trivial, as if religious beliefs do not matter. That is just a soft form of religious bigotry.
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By way of counterbalance to a barrage of previous posts which have been focussing on how wives love their husbands in marriage, I thought I'd share this story of a classroom in which I was a visting presenter.

I recieved a call from a teacher I had never met, from a Catholic school in a suburb I had never before visited. The teacher had never met or heard of me before but had found my office's number under "Catholic" in the public telephone book.
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In the com box of a recent post on Marriage and sexual tension Lyl said

"I would say that strictly speaking there is no "need" for sex(since a human being can certainly live without it, whereas we must have air, water, food and sleep to live)"Which reflects any number of similar comments suggesting that sex is a luxury, not a necessity of life. Or, to be fair to Lyl, that sex is not a 'need' of human beings.
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This little gem comes via the Ironic Catholic.

Mea culpa.
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