I'm glad we cleared that up

The National Association of Pastoral Musicians (a group who's name already has me suspicious) asked respondents to a poll "which liturgical song most fostered and nourished the respondent's life".

Catholic News Service reports on the results.

The three most popular songs, "On Eagle's wings," "Here I Am, Lord" and "Be Not Afraid" can be described thus:

1) What God is going to do for me
2) God singing to me
3) God singing to me about what He is going to do for me.

So say it with me now: "The liturgical reform has fostered a greater understanding of the Liturgy on the part of the faithful".

Just imagine, before we got all this new understanding, people thought the Liturgy was about worshiping God. How medieval.

Which Sports Car?

I don't generally go in for these dopey internet quizzes, but I liked the look of this one (by way of Dappled Things).

I especially like how it turned out. It makes me sound quite a bit cooler than I am.

I'm a Lamborghini Murcielago!

You're not subtle, but you don't want to be. Fast, loud, and dramatic, you want people to notice you, and then get out of the way. In a world full of sheep, you're a raging bull.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

It's the tasty wings, I guess

Monsignor Isidore Rozycki, a priest in Waco, Texas is blessing a Hooters Restaurant in time for the grand opening. As he says, "it's great food". I assume the good Monsignor reads Playboy for the articles too.

Nothing the priest says, as quoted in the article, sounds remotely Catholic. Still, it's hard to get too worked up about this, what with openly straight priests being so hard to come by these days.

You know you are a has-been when...

In an article not otherwise worth reading the Toronto Star has this:

The more Martin "pulled at Uncle Sam's beard or tugged at his tail," the more he made Harper the lesser evil, said noted historian Desmond Morton of McGill University.

The pundits having given him up, the Star turns to an historian to comment on our glorious Prime Minister. May this been a sign of things to come.