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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Perversion (love?) Among the Ruins – Ascension RC Church – Harrowgate Philadelphia
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| Ascension RC Church - Harrowgate Philadelphia - Out of Business |
One of the strangest footings along a
pathway of historical research, looking for a historical geographical reference,
yesterday, landed me back where I had written a piece about a dying decaying parish
adjacent to the parish I grew up in, in Harrowgate Philly, of that of Ascension
Church and Parish.
Trying to disseminate the closing story
which apparently came very quickly and in a press release, so typical of
Charles Chaput, like a thief in the night mentioned somewhere in the Gospels
was an overlay story of BTW, the pastor of Ascension already on one admin leave
and cleared by one of Charles Chaput’s Blue Ribbon Citizen’s Committees of
Justice had to be put back on admin leave because the Blue Ribbon Commission
missed something when they gave him a clean bill of health to be around
children etc.
Citizen Robespierre Chaput offers no
explanations, just a press release. "Off with Ascension's head!"
And
since I was trying to disseminate two stories I missed the timeline which was
that Pastor Michael Chapman had been re-relieved from his duties(?) among the ruins
of a once great city upon a hill church and Parish in old white working class
Philly and ten days later the Archdiocese padlocked the place with less than a
week’s notice for the sole office worker to pack her box and a few other
miserable boxes of church records and become unemployed after 25 years of
service etc.
Want a mass? God is that way. Go 1.7 miles that way or another
mile or so that way.
I should say that the racism in Philly has
always been there. The neighborhood where I grew up was quite white, catholic and
lower working class Irish. That the new
mix of 50% Hispanic and Black probably changes nothing in terms of the human
condition there. Those conditions always
were poor to none for the inhabitants.
That I could blame the Hunky Cardinal Krol
for ignoring race relations in favor of his politics to become the first Polish
pope. I could also blame the traditionally
bigoted Italians, the Guinea Cardinals “Small Tony” Belivacqua or Justin “Big
Frank” Rigali as his Swiss Vatican Guard male friends used to refer to him when
he was their chaplain, but I won’t blame anybody. It is what it is.
It is the modern disease of the American
middle class that once you manage to blow, with sex or drugs or frat house
connections, a foot over the threshold of the front office, get your toe into
that front office cocoon, the back office, the little people, the rest of
humanity can just go to hell as you party and count your crony Bonuses etc.
Just the same way Jesus played the
establishment game in his day. Right?
Whatever.
Anyway, I do not think that many people
read my piece about Ascension in which I actually quoted Pastor Mike – geezus
mary and joseph.
The Rev. Michael Chapman,
56, was originally placed on administrative leave following allegations of
sexual abuse of minors last spring . Chapman, who is pastor of Ascension
of Our Lord Parish in Philadelphia, was placed on leave in March 2011 for an
alleged violation of archdiocese standards of ministerial behavior and
boundaries.
After an investigation, Archbishop Charles Chaput found Chapman suitable for ministry in May 2012. But before Chapman's return, the Archdiocese received new allegations of sexual abuse of minors against Father Chapman in May. The alleged abuse reportedly occurred approximately 30 years ago. The Archdiocese immediately reported the new allegations to law enforcement and delayed Father Chapman's return to the parish.
After an investigation, Archbishop Charles Chaput found Chapman suitable for ministry in May 2012. But before Chapman's return, the Archdiocese received new allegations of sexual abuse of minors against Father Chapman in May. The alleged abuse reportedly occurred approximately 30 years ago. The Archdiocese immediately reported the new allegations to law enforcement and delayed Father Chapman's return to the parish.
(Sept 26) Archbishop Charles Chaput has approved plans to close
the Ascension of Our Lord Parish in Philadelphia's Harrowgate section, the Archdiocese
announced today.
Parishioners can now go to either Holy Innocents Church, about 1.7
miles away, Visitation, B.V.M. Parish, less than a mile away, the Archdiocese
said in a statement.
It said the church will not be maintained as a worship site since
the 98-year-old building requires at least $3 million in physical improvements.
The closure, effective Oct. 1, is the latest in
a series by the Archdiocese as it deals with declining enrollments and rising
maintenance costs for aging church buildings.
Cardinal Ray(mo) Burke - Macho Fauxmo Man - Only pretending to Look Gay - Walks like a Duck, Quacks like a Duck...
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| Macho Fauxmo Raymo Burke of the Vatican Supreme Court - Dressed Just Like Jesus! |
OH. I get it now. Just pretending to look gay -- Fauxmosexual -- Macho Faux-mo Ray(mo) Burke of the Vatican Supreme Court. LOL
Fauxmosexual --- not Homosexual. Yeah right.
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| A real stud - just like Jesus |
Fabulous Raymo. Simply fabulous.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Romney Mormon Gay Hate Agenda Reflected in His Retaliation Against PBS – W/Sesame Street’s Recent Divorce from Chick-fil-A
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| Romney an Ally in Chick-fil-A's Culture Wars Involving Big Bird and Sesame Street |
Got to keep the fanatics and haters on the Right happy Mitt?
Kill off Big Bird and the other Muppets on Sesame Street as part of retaliation
of the far right fundamentalists organized under the banner of the Mormon Hate Campaign against gays and Marriage Equality?
Go BainSource yourself Asshole!
The Jim Henson Co., owner of the widely promoted Muppets characters, says
it won’t be working with Chick-fil-A any more based on the statement of Christian
faith from the restaurant chief that he does not endorse homosexual marriage.
“The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and
inclusiveness for over 50 years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A (sic) that we
do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors,” said a Facebook
statement from the company. “Lisa Henson, our CEO, is personally a strong
supporter of gay marriage and has directed us to donate the payment we received
from Chick-Fil-A (sic) to GLAAD [ a homosexual promotion organization].”
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Big Bird’s Future in Doubt – Romney Plans to BainSource Him to the 47%
Outsourcing
Jobs is one end of the human downsizing equation.
BainSoucing
is the collateral damage end of making workers like Bird Bird workless,
homeless and being made obsolete (47%) for a profit. So, why are these Muppet losers about to be dumped onto welfare smiling?
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When a Woman was Pope - Life
When A Woman was Pope
Life Magazine November 6, 1902
Grand Inquisitor: Would your Holiness care to witness the fireworks this evening? We set off twelve bunches of heretics.
Pope Joan: Delighted! Cardinals, get your hats. Is my tiara on straight?
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Tell Me More Lies - Cardinal Dolan
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| Tell me lies. |
The photo inspired me to find the right musical video to fit. I believe this picture was the Cardinal's last appearance, unscreened performance, to the press before his trip to Ireland in early June and escape from his Bishop's Bonus Deal for his pet pedophiles in Milwaukee scandal breaking in the news at the time. Never did quite get around to finish the comments on that one, did he? Tell me lies. Tell me sweet little lies...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Welcome to the Hotel California - Archbishop Cordileone - Gipsy Kings
Greetings from The Dude and Jesus, Sal. Got any fresh Carpet? LOL
No messing with Jesus. Right? LMAO
Welcome to San Francisco (that's Spanish for Saint Francis BTW).
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Secret Life of Catholic Super Hero – Bill Donohue / Tim Dolan ??
I cannot quite figure it out yet.
Which one of the two people never seen together in public around New
York City - Bill Donohue or Tim Dolan is the real Catholic Super Hero? Are there two or merely a Clark Kent type single Hero guy?
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| Bad Cop - Good Cop / Bill Donohue - Tim Dolan |
Mild mannered Archbishop Tim Dolan jumps out of his limousine and into a pay
phone kiosk (not many of them left in mid-town Manhattan) – Hot under the
Oxford Shirt collar Bill Donohue jumping into the men’s room at Rosy O’Gradie’s
or any other mid-town rummy tourist bar and voila – Super Hero.
That’s not to say that Dolan’s fabulous polyester outfit makes him the
superior half of the Super UberCath team fighting off secularists and atheists
with tax free 501(c)3 DOLLARS.
Ten second PR sound bites are a modern art form and currently a required two semester subject in seminaries worldwide for the guys being groomed for success by the Father Escriva and Maciel cadre of Catholic training types these days.
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| The Shadow Knows |
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In Dolan’s Colon (that rhymes) – Artiste Bill Donohue at Catholic League Displays his “Obama in Feces” Decorative Artwork
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| Eyes reading a telepromter? - Bill Donohue - The Catholic League |
Bill Donohue is like a pit
bull. He won’t give it up in terms of being an unrecognized artistic genius having
to muck about with the likes of Archbishop Dolan and Rupert Murdoch over at Fox
News.
I did not know that the
Santorum crowd, the Pink Palace crowd in the NewYork archdiocese like to play
with “brown” Play-Doh and call it art.
I
want Bill Donohue’s job. And I won’t have Yahoo as my homepage in the office
like Bill – Yahoo! - OMG!
$400,000 a year to sit
around an executive suite with a view of Central Park and fantasize about black people in their
own feces as the new mean spirited Catholic League / Cardinal Dolan sponsored
$$$ vvision of art. LOL. LMAO.
Gee Bill, Nostalgia. Now I understand the “New
Evangelization” completely.
I haven’t had so much fun with
nostalgic memories since I was two and playing with my own feces that fell out
of one of those old fashioned cloth diapers that my mother had to recycle in
the wash.
Catch 3:09 – 3:59 of video above to listen to a grown man whine about decorative art. Old decorative art.
BTW the way Cardinal
Dolan, I am a starving poet. Send me
some grant money. Pleese!
Here is a sample of my work:
Santorum’s Best – a poem
There once was a cemetery
Crook from Milwaukee Nantucket
Who had a drunk stooge
Who could only flunck(y) it
In life. …
But when it came to his
art
The sterling part, the
secret
Was found obviously hidden
In his eyes, stars, in wide stance
on a
toilet seat perhaps
And (or) in Dolan’s colon.
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| Comes in Vegan and Non-Vegan shades of Brown - made special for Artists |
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Monday, October 1, 2012
One of the Single Best Movie Scenes of All Time - Running on Empty - 1988 - Christine Lahti - Steven Hill - Sidney Lumet
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096018/
Because this film gives a face, a human face, to the last remnants of the Vietnam War Era in America, this film has never been given its true due.
The one scene with Christine Lahti having a brief clandestine reunion with her establishment father chokes me in the throat and wells me up with tears in my eyes every time I see it. It is the single most powerful scene I can remember in cinema. It is truly one of the ten great scenes of all time in Cinema History. Stephen Hills's subtle, uptight, stone faced performance is a mask we can see through full of its anger, confusion and hidden emotion. It leads the whole scene. Christine Lahti truly deserves an Oscar in Retrospect from the Academy.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Skank Media Ho Bill Donohue Tries To Lead Liquored Up Catholic Mob Attack On New York Art Gallery
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| Andres Serrano - "Heaven and Hell" |
The object of their media publicity quest was a rather outdated piece of decorative art “Immersion” by New York Artist Andres Serrano. Apparently the twenty fifth anniversary showing of a commodity piece of decorative art got the Friday Irish Watering Hole guys over at Rosie O’Grady’s to get upset that somebody under the first amendment could portray the image, a photograph in fact, of a crucifix in a jar of the artist’s urine and call it art.
And all within walking and drinking distance of his bar and his Eminence’s Pink Palace Bishop’s Townhouse over by St. Pat’s Cathedral. It was enough to make a grown drunk divorced Irish Catholic man like poor sensitive Bill Donohue to cry.
Gallery owners were expecting a protest on Thursday night and were
relieved when only about 30 people turned up, Ms. von Mueffling said. Things
became heated, she said, when the group tried to push pass the four guards at
the entry. She said that the gallery called the police, who dispersed the
protesters.
Mr. Donohue called that version of events an “out-and-out lie.”
“We didn’t push past anybody,” he said. “There were no police
there, none at all.”
Only he was blocked from entering, Mr. Donohue said. He left and
went with some friends to Rosie O’Grady’s, a nearby bar.
Detective Marc Nell, a spokesman for the New York City Police
Department, said that officers were aware that a protest was going on and went
by twice to check, but not in response to a call. During the first visit in the
evening, at 6:22 p.m., “there was no interaction with the protesters,”
Detective Nell said. He added: “Police talked to security and security said
everything was fine.”
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
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