_“It seems, then,” said the Unicorn, “that there is a real Tash, after all.” “Yes,” said the Dwarf. “And this fool of an Ape, who didn’t believe in Tash, will get more than he bargained for! He called for Tash: Tash has come.” “Where has it—he—the Thing—gone to?” said Jill. “North into the heart of Narnia,” said Tirian. “It has come to dwell among us. They have called it and it has come.

The world will not give you what you want. Stop trying to please it. _The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true

So, I turned off Disqus and discovered that the built-in WP comments thing is worthless. And without Disqus filtering spam, we’ve been getting dozens of spam messages per post every day and it was depressing and disappointing. For today’s example, of 15 comments four were actual comments. I tried to turn on Askimet, and it gave me some incomprehensible runaround and ended up asking me to create an entire new site!

In honour of Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Sweden… God loved him too, and had a wonderful plan for his life.   …and him… …and for these guys… And for you too, Holy Father… ~

Well, y’all may have noticed that the comments thingy is different. I discovered that Disqus had taken it upon itself to install some kind of hideous adverts at the bottom of every post. This was not something I would ever have wanted and as soon as I discovered it, I deactivated Disqus. For many reasons, Disqus is a pain, and I’m glad I don’t have to deal with their idiotic and often labyrinthine processes for moderating and checking messages, and I am glad I can deactivate the stupid thing in my email that kept putting a bunch of annoying crap in there through my connection with Disqus.

Symbolum Gaenswinianum: [to be sung at the end of Prime on the Feast of the Confustification. Because Prime is a minor hour, this antiphon is always semidoubled. If the Feast of the Confustification is celebrated in Eastertide, two Alleluias (which are really only one Alleluia) are added to the end.] And the Catholic faith is this: That we have one Petrine Ministry; Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the office;

The next priest who says this to me in any forum whatsoever, who tells me how much he wants to say out loud the things I say here, but who just can’t because of his bishop or his religious superior or because of his job, is going to get outed on the blog. I’ll do a feature on him. With photos. And then email it to his bishop and to the president of the National Bishops’ Conference in his country,

Looks familiar somehow… There should be, like A.A., a P.P.A.: Papal Positivists Anonymous. “Hi. I’m Bob. I’m a papal positivist.” (applause) “Hi Bob.” “What woke me up was when…”   https://popefrancisdoingstuff.tumblr.com/post/144856263551/pope-francis-and-pope-benedict-xvi-promoting-the I’m going to keep saying it and saying it until… I guess, I get tired of saying it and can’t be bothered anymore… Pope Francis is the only thing that was going to save the Church.

“I saw also the relationship between two popes … I saw how baleful would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city of Rome. The local clergy grew lukewarm, and I saw a great darkness… “I had another vision of the great tribulation. It seems to me that a concession was demanded from the clergy which could not be granted.

This. So. Much. This. ~ Poor Carl Olson sounds like his head is about to explode. I can sympathize. The poor guy, who’s one of the good ones and a decent enough guy to have published a couple of my articles and paid me for them, is doing the herculean heavy lifting required to try to make some kind of sense out of the things that Pope Francis says.