Bin Laden Relocates!

Just a few months short of the tenth anniversary, Osama Bin Laden has finally been captured and killed, and I’m watching crowds celebrating in Times Square and outside the White House.

This is wonderful, wonderful news!

Of course, this being reality, the Left is already fretting on Twitter about how angry the bad Muslims are going to be when they see us celebrating.  Well, all I have to say to that is this:  do the Frug, bitches!  Allahu Ackbar!

Look, I know as a Catholic that I should probably pray for bin Laden’s soul tonight, but I can’t help thinking that this matter has probably already been settled.

Getting A Little Catholicy On You

Look, folks, I’ve got to be honest: things are really bad right now.  I’m unemployed, I’m trying to keep my father from having to go into a nursing home, and I’m failing.  I cannot get my siblings to hold off on doing it, and I’m freaking out, not only because I don’t want this to happen to my father, but I don’t know where I’m going to live once his condo has been sold to pay for his care.

This is brand new territory for me.  Until two years ago when the economy crashed, I simply used to be able to work and support myself.  Being unemployed for two solid years is just not familiar ground for me.

And I’m scared.

And when I’m the most frightened, that’s when I cling the most tenaciously to my Catholicism, and I need to know His love and compassion right now.

With that in mind, please enjoy this lovely, lovely rendition of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.  If you’re impatient, the singing starts about three minutes in:

Here’s Part One:

Part Two:

And here’s Part Three:

New Year’s Day Mishmash

Well, folks, 2010 was one lousy, lousy year, and 2011 doesn’t seem to have much going for it in the near term, either.  I begin this year hanging on for dear life and just hoping that the crap pile doesn’t get any higher anytime soon.

But there are small pleasures to be found anyway, thank God!  For example, WGN America on New Year’s Eve played a special television version of Daryl Hall’s outstanding live performance web show Live From Daryl’s House.  Here’s a clip of Todd Rundgren performing Daryl’s song “Wait For Me.”  Enjoy!

But Daryl Hall didn’t provide all of the small comforts I found over the last couple of days.  Here’s another:

Catholic Deacon Takes A Swipe At Governor Palin at Christmas Mass

“And then there were all the political scandals, from the ones involving our Governor here in New York, to the Alaskan Governor…“

I may be paraphrasing slightly, but that’s how the deacon at Mass today referenced what he referred to as all the political scandals that rocked the country this year.

In all honesty, the larger point of the homily was lost to me.  It rambled, and the acoustics were poor (which has been true of almost every church I’ve ever attended — it seems almost to be intentional), but the deacon began by referencing the tumult which has been so prevalent this  year.  He went from referencing the economic crisis to political scandals.

I don’t know if he was just trying to touch both the Republicans and the Democrats, but my eyebrows raised when he sought to include Sarah Palin amongst his examples.

Sarah Palin?  Really?  She was a big source of scandal?  Really?  In a year that saw Elliot Spitzer lose his job over dalliances with whores?  In a year when the shockingly inexperienced Democratic candidate for POTUS was exposed for having unseemly ties to radicals and terrorists and nobody seemed to care?

In an environment like that, Sarah Palin is a good example of a scandal-ridden politician?

It was, to say the least, disappointing. I tried to imagine what it would have been like for her if she’d been in our church today with her family.  A good woman of impeccable character and stainless ethics, and she continues to be an object of derision and scorn from people who aren’t fit to say her name aloud much less judge her or label her as scandalous.

But there remains a strain of toxic liberalism flowing through the Catholic Church, and everytime I try to get past my incredulity over Catholics voting for Barack Obama, they go and remind me that, for some Catholics, religion comes second to being partisan Democrats.

Elton John Has Perspective

Has Sense

As thuggish proponents of same-sex marriage continue responding to genuine democracy by assaulting old ladies,  holding sensless and cowardly protests at Mormon churches and producing TV ads of staggering anti-religious bigotry, Sir Elton John comes out as a voice of reason and rational perspective in the face of all the hysteria