"Humor" Archives:

2009

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September

• Liturgical Dance Aerobics Scores High With Seniors

  by Bobby Jo Clifford
  St. Petersburg Senior Gazette

  First there was the old Shaker tune, "I Danced in the Morning." Then there was Michael Flattley and "The Lord of the Dance." Oh, and we mustn't forget that country hit from a few years ago, "I Hope you Dance." It seems everyone wants to shake their groove thing these days. Well, now one area Catholic Church is incorporating dance into Sunday liturgy.

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2008

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August

• Catholic Features: Priest Makes Ordinary Time Extraordinary

  by Barbara Hamilton
  God Gazette Features Editor

  It is the longest season on the Church's calendar and Father Paul Meadows hates it. "Ordinary time is just so blasé," he said in his living room at the rectory of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Davison, MI.

  The room was anything but blasé though. Fr. Meadows loves to decorate and has already remodeled the rectory seven times in his five-year tenure. Looking around the room, it's easy to see why. The place is filled to capacity with movie posters and other such memorabilia representing movies ranging from The Music Man to Indiana Jones.

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June

• Religious Group Proposes Censorship

  Claims Cure for Social Woes

  by Tom Gaspar
  Massachusetts Catholic Inquisitor

  "Freedom of the Press" has long been a right that Americans have held up as being necessary for a free and democratic society. Especially in the realm of politics, knowledge is power, and most Americans realize that if one faction controlled the media, the knowledge/power factor would be skewed. But according to Deacon Leopold Frapinger, there should be no balance when it comes to Christian morality.

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2007

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July

• Parish Investigated for Mass Inaccuracies

  by Frank O'Brien
  Reprinted from Catholic Concerns Weekly

  LANSING, MI - A well-known priest in the Diocese of Lansing has taken a sabbatical recently as a result of charges against him alleging severe defamation of the Holy Liturgy. Charges against him include omitting parts of the liturgy, asking the congregation to become highly involved in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and generally showing a lack of seriousness about solemn celebrations.

  "He should never be able to celebrate Mass again," said one parish member who wishes to remain nameless.

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2006

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October

• Catholic Laity Make Some Noise

  CLAMOR Heard Loud and Clear

  by Tom Gaspar
  Massachusetts Catholic Inquisitor

  While many Americans have been busy listening to the rhetoric spewing from the mouths of certain politicians as they prepare for the coming mid-term elections, other people have been doing some talking of there own. And what started as a grass roots effort in a small mid-Michigan town has exploded with a sound that's bound to be heard.

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April

• Jesus Has Left the Building

  by Nikki Keener
  Music Editor, Catholic Entertainment Connection

  She looks in her closet for just the right shirt. The curling iron is heating up while she applies her make up. Tonight is going to be special. Her name is Shirley DiAngelo, and she is but one of many Catholics over sixty who are avid fans of Christian rock concerts.

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2005

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July

• Man Claims Pet is Life Partner

  by Tom Gaspar
  Massachusetts Catholic Inquisitor

  Two days after Canada became the world's fourth nation to grant full legal rights to same-sex couples, Jacques Riboud, a native of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, applied for a marriage license. Unfortunately, the proposed marriage was between Riboud and his dog, Humphrey.

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