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Pope Celebrates With Oratorians

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Pope Joins in Celebration of Disciple of St. Philip Neri
Marks 400 Years Since Death of Blessed

VATICAN CITY, AUG. 30, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II put forward as an “example of holiness to the men of our time” the person of Blessed Giovanni Giovenale Ancina.

Woohoo! I beat Quenta Narwenion to posting about something related to the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. 😉

For those new to this blog, it might help to know that Donna Lewis, Adam Haigh, and I all attend masses and events offered by the Oratorian priests at the Ryan Catholic Newman Center in Pittsburgh. Father Michael Darcy is one of those priests. Mike Hickson hopes to become one of them.

Pitt Pride

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Banana split turns 100

University of Pittsburgh alumni have won the Nobel Prize, played in the National Football League and unlocked the secrets of DNA. On Wednesday, the university celebrated a less prestigious but equally sweet accomplishment — the banana split.

Pitt declared Wednesday “Banana Split Day” and celebrated the dessert’s 100th birthday by serving about 4,000 ice cream cones to university freshmen, family members, students and others returning to campus for the new school year.

Banana spilts I can be proud of. These poor excuses for journalism, I cannot.

High school’s at home; welcome to the collegiate hook-up (Part 1)

High school’s at home; welcome to the collegiate hook-up (Part 2)

What college doesn’t need a drunken debauchery and hedonism sex column? *rolls eyes*

The Article Needs Read

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This
post on Disputations, discussing a variant of English lacking “to be”
called E-prime, would not grab my attention except that Pittsburghese might be a
dialect of it. We of Da Burgh frequently drop “to be” when using the verb
“need”. “The car needs washed”, “Your homework needs done.”,
etc. I suppose it could also be used with “want”. “The cat wants
fed”, for instance, would work. Any native Pittsburghers (I’m a transplant)
think any examples need added?

Mission Creep

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When I attended the United for Peace and Justice anti-war rally in Pittsburgh at the beginning of ’03, I was annoyed and frustrated by the horrendous mission creep there. I was there to stop what I felt was an unjust war (we can argue that point later) and intrusive laws that threatened liberty in the name of patriotism and national security, not support abortion on demand. One minute I was cheering an anti-war speaker and the next I was listening to a feminazi rail on about a woman’s right to end a life choose.

It seems that Catholic Peace Fellowship has had similar experiences with UFPJ and wants no more. They’ve severed ties over UFPJ’s participation in the "March for Women’s Lives" and I can’t blame them.

"United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 800 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to oppose our government’s policy of permanent warfare and empire-building."

And that has what to do with abortion?!? I like what CPF said about this.

"No one has the right to choose life or death for another; to assume such power has always been recognized as the ultimate form of oppression"

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"Nowhere in [UFPJ’s statement of purpose, the Unity Statement] is there mention of ‘reproductive rights’ or the ‘freedom’ to choose to kill."

By the way, these are the same yahoos who demand no barriers/pens, free water, free transportation, and monetary compensation for their march at the GOP convention.