Father Orthoduck is as surprised as Father Ernesto, but following is a continuation on previous vampire posts. The original Bram Stoker tale on Dracula was widely based on Roman Catholic theology. The reason Holy Water worked is because once it is blessed by a priest, it becomes a water that lives in two worlds. It […]
Bram Stoker and vampire executions
Father Ernesto has turned over the vampire posts to me, Father Orthoduck. He was reading one of the recent set of comments from a previous post that sparked a thought in his mind. The posts were two descriptions of the post-mortems of two people in the book, Dracula. However, the deaths and the established reactions […]
Tell it again, Sam, uhm, Pete, uhm, whomever
The slightly grubby man–rarely, if ever, a woman–comes up to you with the story above. And, you have heard it before more than once. It is one of the oldest stories used by panhandlers. It is repeated over and over because it is one of the more successful stories. In fact, Father Orthoduck has heard […]
Be joyful, the Lord is come
Listen and enjoy. GAUDETE!
Rubrics for gunfire in the Mass
Father Orthoduck is happy to reprint the following from Fr. Z’s blog. It is not the entire article. You will need to go there in order to read it, but it is quite a bit of the post. Enjoy the humor! From a reader: I have a question for you. Suppose during a EF Mass, […]
Wonderful news and some humor
Our oldest daughter has given birth to her first child, a daughter, Rachel. She was born weighing 7 lbs 5 oz and 20 inches long. Rachel is our third grandchild. Of course, we have been on the telephone a lot, and generally celebrating. So much for Nixon, China, and economics by Father Orthoduck. Meanwhile, Father […]
Nixon, China, and Viet Nam
Yesterday Father Orthoduck posted on three reasons why Nixon went to the People’s Republic of China in 1972. The first one that Father Orthoduck brought up was Viet Nam. Here is what most people probably do not realize. President Nixon kept his campaign promise, which was to reduce the level of USA troops in Viet […]
Nixon and China, what purpose?
Yesterday Father Orthoduck asked the question about what President Nixon was trying to accomplish in China. Well, there were several policy initiatives that he wanted to see put into place. Remember that President Nixon knew that he had to finish the Viet Nam conflict. China is on the border with what was then North Viet […]
China, Nixon, and capitalism
Father Orthoduck can remember how surprised he was when then President Richard Nixon made his historic trip to the People’s Republic of China in February of 1972. At that time, Father Orthoduck was in the Army and the Viet Nam conflict was still going on. The surprise in the USA was phenomenal, since Nixon had […]
Carrie Prejean and Religious Right culture wars
Yes, Father Orthoduck is deliberately running a racy picture of Carrie Prejean because he needs to make a point. And it is a point that will keep biting conservative Christians, whether politically conservative, moderate, or liberal, until the Religious Right gets its act together. Yes, Father Orthoduck claims that it is possible to be a […]
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