The language of # 17 of Gaudium et Spes was called by Ratzinger, "downright Pelagian", and I'm shocked that I didn't notice it until re-reading it. My Pelagianism sensors are probably on the fritz with it's overabundance in many parts of the Church. Anyway, of what I've read so far, while I will admit it is overly optimistic, I feel like it makes up for this in it's pastoral … [Read more...]

"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away." - Walker Percy(A Southern Catholic author, God rest his soul) … [Read more...]

All I know about it other than the fact that it's a Muse song (and a good one at that) is that when people have it, they laugh an insane laugh, which might just be in movies...Anyway, for the last week, I've been alone for so long that sometimes I think I'm going crazy and forgetting how to interact with humans. I've been arbitrarily bursting out in disturbing laughter over … [Read more...]

You know your life is fucked up (to use the Anglo-Saxon tongue) when the thought comes to you "I wish I were bulimic". My carnal life is fed by two fires of overconsumption: lust and gluttony. Or what I like to call, the "uncool" sins. Drunkenness and Pride would probably be alot more fashionable. But by the grace of God I am what I am, to rip St. Paul's words out of … [Read more...]

I've been inexplicably listening to the song called "Mondo 77" by Looper or "looper 77" by mondo or something here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc57lu5GC90It's kind of haunting to me. I listen to it and it remins me of the inverse of an experience I had in life.so 2 years ago almost to the day my friend Jenn and I were dropping a friend off at Heathrow airport in … [Read more...]