Song: Hail, Holy Queen
Artist: The Thirsting
Why I Like It: I don't like most contemporary Christian music, finding it to be somewhat vacuous and insipid - easy listening with poetic references to God. I prefer my church music to be traditional. But I also like it when a good rock band can bring some style to a classic song. In the same vein as The Vandals' rendition of "Here I Am, Lord", The Thirsting takes on a great Marian hymn.
INFUSION means to extract certain properties from an soluble ingredient such as tea leaves , herbs or fruit by soaking in liquid (water) until it gets saturated. So we can say that a infuser is the in charged of make this happen. This is a ludic point of view about the color given off from the phenomenon, wich makes more interesting the waiting of the whole process.
Open TV and Film, the London-based production company, is developing a TV mini-series based on Barack Obama’s days on the campaign trail. ITV Studios USA is co-developing the project.
The author was granted unique access to Obama during the campaign. Shaps – who used to be ITV’s director of television -- told me: “It is early days, but we are sure there will no shortage of ideas for who plays the President.”
Social conservatives can usually count Justice Antonin Scalia as a faithful ally on the Supreme Court. But Wednesday, Scalia had only sarcasm for opponents of Washington state's domestic partner law, who wanted to overturn the law through a referendum without having their names made public.
"Oh, this is such a touchy-feely, oh so sensitive" point of view, Scalia said. "You know, you can't run a democracy this way, with everybody being afraid of having his political positions known."
Leaders of the referendum, which ultimately failed at the ballot box, said they were fearful of retaliation from gay-rights advocates, pointing to the abuse heaped on financial backers of California's ban on gay marriage through Proposition 8.
I remember the maps available on the Internet that showed those who had given money to support Prop 8. I was miffed because they forgot me. Dang! But time did show that eventually they all went away and even the Mormons are breathing easier now.
"The 1st Amendment does not protect you from criticism or even nasty phone calls when you exercise your political rights to legislate, or to take part in the legislative process," Scalia lectured Bopp.
Watch, tonight I'll come home from Disneyland and Ru Paul will be waiting on my front law, ready to kick my ass . . .
What do an illegal alien and a cue ball have in common? If you whack them hard enough, eventually you'll get some English out of them.
Christian Fraternal Correction. A friend of mine shared with me some "stickiness" they got into because someone did not like their opinion. In fact, a person took what was a rather tame and innocent remark and alleged it was "threatening" (see Polarized People above, because hyperbole is a common strategy in their playbook). What got under me steamed was the whine of the aggrieved person that my friend should have approached them first in the spirit of "fraternal correction."
I have had this same thing leveled against me for my opinion that the Magnificat group is a bunch of whack jobs. See, the idea is that as fellow Christians, we should not offer an opinion if something offends us - no matter how friggin' public the source made it - but should "discuss" it with them first.
Discussion? To what end? I see this being used as a passive-aggressive technique in that they only want to invoke this when you disagree with them and publicly state so. And especially if your opinion might just have some truth to it that puts them in a bad light. Ultimately, the end they wish to see is for you to just STFU.
David Morales Colon, 22, was shot to death April 22 in Puerto Rico. For his wake, Colon was embalmed and mounted on his Honda CBR600F4i with full Repsol colors.
Colon will be displayed on his Honda until his burial, scheduled for later this afternoon. As for the bike, it was reportedly a gift from his uncle and brought by his family to the funeral home for the wake. There’s no word on what will happen to the motorcycle after the funeral . . .
And this is different from an open casket wake how? I say, if he wanted it and his family can stomach it, why the hell not? Frankly, he looks a lot better than some people I have seen, especially cancer victims.
This gives me ideas for my own . . . my Dad had a natural smile on his face. Mortuary swore that it set like that naturally. My Mom was quite pleased by it. I think I want my Canon in my hands, maybe even up to my face, as if I am about to take a shot of the mourner at the bier . . .
And you?
Everything from Obama masks to Obama bobble heads are available and now comes this awesome Action figure of President Obama from Hot Toys (known for their Movie Masterpiece series)! At 1/6th the scale, the figure has over 38 points of articulation that allows you to pose Obama as you wish. Suitable for fabric costumes at the 1/6th scale and comes with 2 pairs of hands, 2 heads and fantastic details on his facial expression. Measures 30 cm (11.8 inches) in height.I cannot buy this as it would inspire the evil within me to unacceptable levels. There is just so much that can be done to this . . .
When Veronica Rodriguez opened Wesson Attendance Center's Yearbook on Friday, she didn't find a trace of her lesbian daughter Ceara Sturgis after a long battle with school officials to include a photo of her daughter wearing a tuxedo in the school's 2010 yearbook.
The ACLU wrote an October letter demanding officials use Sturgis' submitted photo in the yearbook, but Copiah County School District officials refused. Rodriguez said she expected the yearbook to at least contain a reference to her daughter on the senior page. What she discovered on Friday, when the yearbook came in, was that the school had refused to acknowledge her entirely.
"It's like she's nobody there, even though she's gone to school there for 12 years," Rodriguez said. "They mentioned none of her accolades, even though she's one of the smartest students there with wonderful grades. They've got kids in the book that have been busted for drugs. There's even a picture of one of the seniors who dropped out of school.
"I don't get it. Ceara is a top student. Why would they do this to her?"
What does it matter if she wants to wear a bloody tuxedo? Look, just because she is a lesbian is no reson to shit on her senior year. This child does not deserve this treatment and the school board should be ashamed of itself.
I have a question - if the standard "yearbook picture dress" for a girl is a "scoop-necked drape", what if I consider that to be immodest for my straight daughter?
Stupid gits. I am willing to bet that they did not police the kids walking around with their silly-ass pants hanging to the ground or the crop tops exposing the belly-button piercing, but a girl wants to wear a tuxedo for her yearbook picture so they take an Orwellian stance and make her an "unperson?" That blows.
A 10-year-old Australian girl who survived being stung by the world's most venomous creature, the deadly box jellyfish, may have rewritten medical history, an expert says.
Often deadly, the box jellyfish has long, trailing tentacles and is able to squeeze through even the smallest of nets as it is only the size of a fingernail.
The venom is so overpoweringly painful that victims often go into shock and drown or die of heart failure before reaching shore.
The AP article says that “The strapping blond will defeat Jughead in a burger eating contest, win the affection of Veronica and wrestle over how to gently rebuff her flirtations.” And that, apparently, will be the only wrestling to occur in Riverdale.
In his letter Mann threatened legal action, claiming the spoof video "illegally used his image and defamed him."Sometimes silence is the best strategy. But last time I checked, there was no legal cause of action for being offended. Yes, I know defamation is, but Prof. Mann's allowed himself to become a public figure, so he would have a tough row to hoe, not to mention a lack of damages. Last time I checked, he's still got his tenure and paycheck.
Neither Mann nor Penn State responded to requests for comments. Mann's lawyer, Peter J. Fontaine of the Washington D.C. law firm of Cozen O'Connor, told FoxNews.com "we don't comment on any pending legal matters for clients."
Davis and No Cap and Trade said they welcome the lawsuit.
The group is eager to conduct an in-depth probe of Mann's work and "finally look at how it was done. We understand why Michael Mann is eager to silence public discussion of the hockey stick scandal, but truth is an absolute defense."
This was brought to my attention by the beautiful Nora.
If you do not want audio at your desk, here is the joke:
A Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water. He finally arrives at a store run by a Jew and asks for water. The Jewish vendor tells him he doesn’t have any water but can gladly sell him a tie. The Taliban, the jokes goes on, begins to curse and yell at the Jewish storeowner. The Jew, unmoved, offers the rude militant an idea: Beyond the hill, there is a restaurant; they can sell you water. The Taliban keeps cursing and finally leaves toward the hill. An hour later he’s back at the tie store. He walks in and tells the merchant: “Your brother tells me I need a tie to get into the restaurant.”
Ah ha ha ha ha ha! Those Yids, always looking for a way to make money! See, the two sheeneys were brothers and they had this racket going and . . . oh, never mind, you had to be there.
Remarkably, the White House transcript of the event starts after the joke was made by Obama's National Security Adviser. Oh sure, the insulting memo distributed in the British state department about the Pope could be blamed on a junior staffer having some yucks, but when a senior member of Obama's cabinet opens a session regarding the Mideast peace process with this giggle-fest, I would American Jews might want to rethink their position on Obama.
I am sure my dear friend Eddie will have something to say.
I cannot smile to order, and if I try, I always look frightened. And what’s more, I can let you into a little secret. The camera does bloody well lie. I know what I look like; I see myself in the mirror every morning. And yet in a picture, I look like me but with special needs.
[M]odern photographers turn up with an army of people who have massive laptops. They operate a Danish computer program that means the subject can be manipulated to do pretty much anything and be pretty much anywhere. You give these guys a snap of Camilla Parker Bowles opening a church hall and they can have her pole-dancing in three minutes flat.And I love Photoshop.
Such scenes are speculative, but Hawking uses them to lead on to a serious point: that a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.
He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”
He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
Our intention with this explanation is only, Allah willing, to create the possibility that a deeper and more productive dialogue may be initiated.
Is there a purpose, other than evil, in insulting something someone holds sacred? While insulting Jesus, Moses, or any other prophet would remove someone from Islam, we Muslims are also forbidden to insult the deities that other religions hold in high esteem. Allah says in the Qur'an: وَلاَ تَسُبُّواْ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللهِّ فَيَسُبُّواْ اللهَّ عَدْوًا بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ
Revile not those unto whom they pray beside Allah lest they wrongfully revile Allah through ignorance.
We would also like Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone to understand the tastelessness of their portrayal, apologize and reflect on the words that follow. An apology or at least recognition of bad taste might not remedy the situation, but it would go a long way toward turning this situation from a gaping wound into an ugly scar.
On a day when many Americans will be reflecting upon how they can reduce their impact on the environment, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will board separate jets in Washington on Earth Day morning to fly 250 miles up the east coast to New York, where they will land at separate airports to attend separate events within a few miles of each other.This is from an aviation website.
Thursday’s dual jaunt seems especially egregious considering the frivolous nature of Biden’s visit, in particular: He’ll be yukking it up with Whoopi and Barbara as a guest on The View. Not sure what he’ll be talking about, but you can be certain that whatever he has to say could be done just as effectively using a video camera and satellite hookup from the White House.
Meanwhile, Obama will be making a speech about new banking and finance regulations, a worthy subject, to be sure. Federal Hall on Wall Street, the site of George Washington’s first inauguration which stares directly at the doors of the New York Stock Exchange, would be the ideal location for this speech, but Obama will deliver it from…an art and engineering school? Any symbolism of delivering the speech in NYC is lost. He may as well save everyone the effort and talk to the nation from the Oval Office.
"Wouldn’t Audrey Hepburn, Jane Birkin, Twiggy, Charlotte Rampling, and Jean Harlow have lost their special brand of elegant, feline sexiness if they were tipping over under the weight of great ol’ mammaries?" she asked rhetorically. "Compare any one of these natural beauties to someone like Heidi Montag, and it’s like comparing a Hastens Swedish handmade mattress to a cheap plastic pool float."
Song: Devil's Dance Floor
Artist: Flogging Molly
Why I Need It Today: I need my moods to swing a little more . . .
A new Ice Age has come upon us . . . but it is not environmental."Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make," [Paul Ehrlich] confidently declared in an interview with then-radical journalist Peter Collier in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. "The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years."
"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
In January 1970, Life reported, "Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support...the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution...by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half...."
"There is one good thing about the blighting of our environment, that is, that Americans don't have to worry about cannibals anymore," said social critic Herbert Muller in The New York Times. "We've all become inedible, there's too much DDT in us.""We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones," warned Sierra Club director Martin Litton in Time's February 2, 1970, special "environmental report."
Later that year, Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
As Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look, "Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."
"The greenhouse theorists contend the world is threatened with a rise in average temperature, which if it reached 4 or 5 degrees, could melt the polar ice caps, raise sea level by as much as 300 feet and cause a worldwide flood," explained Newsweek in its special January 26, 1970, report on "The Ravaged Environment." In the service of balance, however, the magazine also noted that many other scientists saw temperatures dropping: "This theory assumes that the earth's cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun's heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born."
Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, who crafted a bill that would require immigrants to carry proof of legal status, lashed out at Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony on Wednesday for his criticism of the proposed legislation, calling the Roman Catholic leader a "guy who's been protecting child molesters and predators all of his life."
Yes, it has language NSFW . . . it's the Insane Clown Posse, fool! But I find myself strangely cheered by this video. Long-necked giraffes and pet cats and dogs!
The movie studio responsible for the award-winning, German-Austrian film Downfall (German: Der Untergang) has asked YouTube to take down several videos from the massively popular subtitled “Hitler finds out…” meme, and the site has complied.You have seen them - the clever and often hysterical clips where Hitler throws a tantrum, but the subtitles reflect something trendy or current. I first saw one where Hitler is reacting to the choice of Sarah Palin as Veep candidate. Prior to that . . . I had never heard of the movie Der Untergang. I think Constantin Films' lawyers and management are being short-sighted here. Meine herren, it's called free publicity . . .
Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel told New York Magazine that he laughs at the parodies. “You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director,” he said. Unfortunately, Constantin Film’s legal team isn’t as easygoing about it.
As expected given the demographics of the region, the three teenagers behind the counter were all Black; they were cheerful, efficient and helped me with my order of a spinach salad.Aw, this does not end how you think it will . . . enjoy!
The girl in the cornrows said: "You can choose a dressing with your salad, sir - which would you prefer?"
Me: "Ok, what are your choices?"
Cornrows: "Well, we have vinaigrette, thousand island, blue cheese, Asian flavor-"
Me: "Excuse me - Asian flavor?"
On a cool but sun-drenched Sunday, the president and three golfing companions went to Andrews Air Force Base to play 18 holes. It is the 32nd time Mr. Obama has played golf since taking office Jan. 20, 2009, according to CBS Radio's Mark Knoller.Because golf is more important than lending support to perhaps the only strong democracy in Eastern Europe., even if it is only to sign a goddamn book after unforeseen circumstances prevented travel to Poland. I now believe that his advisers actually do tell him what to do for appearances' sake, but they are routinely ignored by his immense ego.
After canceling the Poland trip on Saturday, the White House announced that Mr. Obama had no public schedule for Sunday. He was to have arrived in Krakow in the morning, attend the 2 p.m. funeral and leave for home by 5 p.m., arriving back at the White House after midnight.
Mr. Obama has not gone to the Polish Embassy in Washington since the accident, but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. both have. There, they signed a condolence book.
Kurwa mac!
Please visit the blog I Own the World for a great perspective on this story.
Common Californians -- including the increasing 12.6% of whom are now unemployed -- will be unable to hear the president address the economy or mounting fears over his healthcare bill and its costs because his announced events on this West Coast trip Monday are political and closed to all but donors.
The dollar haul could well exceed that sum in LA tonight between Obama's $2,500 speech and the $17,600 per plate dinner-speech later. Better be great arugula for that!
Again.
On the other hand, take Ohio, please. As a bellwether battleground state that swings, it is highly coveted political geography. Both parties woo Buckeye voters by visiting and listening and talking and pouring fortunes into the ad coffers of TV stations there. Recently, in fact, Obama and his effing vice president were both in that same state on the same day for political and public events.
His effing vice president?!?
I fell away from the church many years ago even after 12 years of Catholic indoctrination. It was due to the excommunication of my mother from the sacraments since she was divorced from my father who cheated on her. I also found it pretty awful that the nuns had to travel in groups, share a car and stick fervently to their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, meanwhile the priests were allowed to whoop it up at college frat parties........saw them there, not to mention getting drunk at reunions and weddings.......witnessed that too. Perhaps it was just the nuns telling us everyday, "the pill is bad" or if you eat that meat on Friday on purpose and you die, you will go straight to hell. The pedophile priests were the icing on the cake and the push out the door for me. I view the Church today preying on the immigrants for the little money they have, while they build Cathedrals for themselves. They should be paying taxes for their political stances today. Just my opinion.They are a lot worse on other articles, but I think you get the drift. And of course, we have had "celebrities" like Roseann Barr, who has suggested that parents who bring their children to the Church are neglectful and should have the children removed from their homes. Don't even get me started on New York Times colunist Maureen Dowd - is there a novena we can say for her, or something?
I left the Catholic Church 40 years ago, long before the infamous cases of child molestation were official news. I knew as a young man that this organization was corrupt, and I guess I made the right decision.
Federal prosecutors and Whatcom County sheriff's officials say Spink also allowed people to come to the farm and have sex with animals.
When county deputies and federal investigators searched the property they found videotapes that included images of a man, who was visiting the property, having sex with several large-breed dogs.
On Wednesday, authorities took several animals, including horses and large-breed dogs, found on Spink's property into protective custody, Elfo said. Several mice were euthanized, he added.
The property, Exitpoint Stallions, is reportedly owned by Spink's mother.
Either someone's been hitting the Botox too much lately or . . .At a Tea Party gathering in Santa Ana, Walter Myers III was the only non-white in the audience.
Cuban
Vietnamese
Black
Jim Trent and his wife, Cecilia the Invisible Mexican, led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. I spoke with her after she had finished giving an interview - in Spanish - to Telemundo, whose reporter started with the question to her, "Why are you here?"
Thanks, Cecilia, for bringing KABC's inability to distinguish skin tones to my attention.
Okay, I don't know the nationality or race of the woman above wearing the "Adios Boxer" sticker and supporting a Republican candidate, but I think she's "non-White." And in the background there seems to be an Asian gentleman. So sue me.
Song: Rush
Artist: Big Audio Dynamite
Why I Like It: Because after the Tea Party yesterday - and an email I received from fellow patriot Cecilia who took offense at ABC's reporting that said there were no minorities in attendance at Santa Ana's Tea Party, notwithstanding the fact that she, a Latina, and her husband led us in the Pledge of Allegiance - we need a change of atmosphere.
This fellow, Walter Myers III, was a very dynamic speaker. The text of the speeches he gave today can be found at his blog, Scientia Media.
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Oh, wait . . .A tactile picture of a woman dressed as a pink elephant. She wears a cardboard & paper mask, a chest plate with holes for her breasts, and paper "feet" tie around her wrists with ribbon. Her vagina is shaved, and her pregnant belly is small.
A tactile picture of a woman's bum. Paper legs (only one shown tactually) hang from between her thighs, as she simulates birth.A tactile picture of a naked man dressed as a bunny rabbit. He wears a paper bag mask, maxi pads across his chest, and a toilet paper roll with cotton balls around his penis. Paper hearts decorate the background.A tactile picture of a naked voluptuous woman dressed as a satanic ram. She wears a long cardboard mask of spires, a beard and an inverted cross. Her pubic hair forms a triangle between her legs.
Last year alone, the State Department sent taxpayers tabs totaling nearly $300,000 for alcoholic beverages — about twice as much compared to the previous year, according to an analysis of spending records by The Washington Times.Literally.
The nominations are open at The Crescat for the 2010 Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards. I am nominated once again for "Best Bat Shit Crazy" blog, but I crave more recognition. So go and nominate me, and then after May 10th - providing I can successfully defend The Crescat in the Italian courts for the crime of moral turpitude involving a Swiss Guard - the actual voting will begin.
“What was going on inside was just mind-boggling,” she said. “There was guys urinating on the poles. There was spilled beer everywhere, spilled hot dogs, people walking on hot dogs.” “All the security was outside,” she said. “Inside, there was none to be found.”
Over the weekend Sigourney Weaver served up this little dish about her showbiz sister Kathryn Bigelow while in Brazil promoting Pocahontas. I mean Avatar. She reportedly said…
“Jim didn’t have breasts, and I think that was the reason,” she told told Folha Online, a Brazilian news site. “He should have taken home that Oscar.”
“The snake kills by squeezing very slowly,” Mr. Cameron said to more than 70 indigenous people, some holding spears and bows and arrows, under a tree here along the Xingu River. “This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be,” he added.I find it hysterical when White folks think the natives they are addressing cannot understand complex sentences. "The snake kills by squeezing very slowly . . ." - *snort!* How much do you want to bet Cameron said it very, very slowly and clearly e.nun.ci.ated so the tribesmen would understand him?
As if to underscore the point, seconds later a poisonous green snake fell out of a tree, just feet from where Mr. Cameron’s wife sat on a log. Screams rang out. Villagers scattered. The snake was killed. Then indigenous leaders set off on a dance of appreciation, ending at the boat that took Mr. Cameron away. All the while, Mr. Cameron danced haltingly, shaking a spear, a chief’s feathery yellow and white headdress atop his head.
“We’re trying to tailgate,” Ray Barbosa said, standing in a Dodgers parking lot with his friends next to his GMC Sierra.That offer to take your food inside? Baloney! Sure, you can "take your food" - as far as the ticket gate, and then you'll be told it cannot come inside.
“That means we’ve been visited four times in seven minutes,” Barbosa said, referring to the seemingly ever-present Dodgers security and LAPD officers who approached on bikes, in carts and on foot to suggest that fans move inside the stadium.
“You can take your food,” offered one.
Security personnel said it’s not just the illegal drinking of alcohol in parking lots that is forbidden. All tailgating -- or congregating -- is off-limits in the vast expanses of parking lots around the stadium. For longtime fans, that’s crushing a tradition as cherished as watching the actual game.
People make fun of me [Eddie] because I like Norms Restaurants, a Southern California chain. Maybe this video, that the firmn did to commemorate a server's 35th anniversary as an employee explains why.
"Norms . . . where life happens."
I want to bring to your attention a book that I think is worth every parent buying and reading – if you love your children. You do, don’t you? Yes, I was raised by a Catholic mother . . . and am one now, so let me tell you about this book.Read more here.
Free-Range Kids – Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry is a book written by Lenore Skenazy. You might remember her. She was dubbed “America’s Worst Mom” when she allowed her then 9-year-old son to travel - by himself, without parent present - from Bloomingdale’s in New York City, by subway and bus, to his family’s apartment in another part of the city.
Does that horrify you?
A measure to repeal Proposition 8, the anti-gay-marriage initiative, has failed to qualify for the November ballot.
John Henning, who heads a group that sponsored the repeal effort, declined to say how many signatures were gathered since the all-volunteer campaign got underway in late November. He said 694,000 valid signatures were required by Monday.
"There comes a point where the intake of signatures isn't rapid enough to make up your deficit," Henning said. "We started to realize last week that we weren't going to make it."
In speeches, he has decried a society that believes there are "as many truths as there are individuals." In a 21-page treatise he wrote in February, he critiqued "cultural Catholics" -- modernist, Catholic-lite worshipers who view Catholicism as "a personality trait . . . that shapes their perception on the world but compels no allegiance or devotion to the church." He scolded Latinos in particular, exhorting: "Somos Catolicos!" "We are Catholics!"
