To all the Catholics on my f-list - Non-Catholics, stay the Hell away or you WILL be offended

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There is a priest in Boulder, Colorado, who is under vicious, systematic, directed attack because he is keeping the teachings of the Church and the orders of his Bishop. I have some experience of how it feels like to be at the wrong (or is it?) end of the kind of vile hatred that is being directed at this man. So I tell the Catholics and Christians on my f-list: follow this link and do what it says - http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/03/to-arms-denver-priest-attacked-for-being-obedient-poll-alert/ - and then go to the priest's own blog and register a personal message of support. While a good man has enough in himself to stand up for the Church even to martyrdom - and to be fair, that does not yet seem to be the case here - anyone who is subjected to hundreds of direct sexually explicit threats can do with kind words from a distant country.

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It was first told by Boccaccio, but it is still told in the streets of Rome today as if it had been just thought up, and maybe you have heard it.

Once upon a time there were two friends. One was a devout but ignorant Catholic, and the other was a quick-witted and well-read Jew (or you can make him a Lutheran, or a Communist, or the enemy du jour, whoever). They would often debate religion and related matters, and the unbeliever tended to tie up the Catholic in knots. At which point the Catholic friend would usually reply: "Well, you can get me because I'm ignorant. You should go and argue this with our great prelates and Cardinals in Rome, I'm sure they could answer you."

So one day the Jew decided to take him at his word. Besides, he had business in Italy, and besides, he fancied a visit to the great city.

Many months passed. Eventually the friend came back... baptized.

"So you did argue with them?"

"Well, not exactly."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I was in Rome a long time. A long time. And I had a good opportunity to see how things are done and how the Church works. And I had to conclude that God was indeed holding it up, because nothing else could possibly explain that something so crazy could still be going on!"

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LOL; no, I had not heard it, and it's a good one :-)