The Anchoress

Alright, I hear you. I will give you a round-up, but I’m not doing the Gabby Hayes thing this week, varmints.

Chances are you have seen some or even most of what I’m going to link to, but on the off-chance that you haven’t:

Wanna talk Wimmin, Modesty and Prudish, Oppressive Catholics? Of course you do. This is what’s on your mind, all the time, so follow Gerald’s lead and check out this post on one bishop’s thought on modest-dress, and one feminist’s response. As I have said before, self-respect is not prudery.

Slightly off-topic, Catholics go to mass dressed like the biggest slobs in the world. And if you say anything about it, you’ve got to deal with the umbrage-taking moralists who puff up and say, “you should be happy people are there at all, and God doesn’t care how you dress…”

Which is all perfectly true. But for heaven’s sake, people dress up go to work, they dress up to meet someone important…why would you not want to dress a little better when you’re going to greet the King? He may not care how you dress, but why not communicate your esteem, if you can, by dressing for Him as you would if you were going to meet…okay, a mayor.

Gerald is doing a big-time multi parter on Lumen Gentium, btw, which you might want to check out!

You people are not taking the opportunity to spout off, which is surprising to me. A few days ago I gave you a recipe and and told you about an invitation from CBS to tell CBS news what you think their program should be like. I told you that you would very likely NOT be part of Madame Couric’s “select” group of advisors. Since so few responded, CBS is giving you another chance - I think they really do want your opinions, guys. I think it’s sincere. And no, I am not sucking up!

Do you want to see the tail-ends of the Wilson-Plames? Of course, we all do! But they’re not going. And you’d better not look at them while they stay, either, you intrusive pigs! Cancel that subscription to Who’s Who right now, and go read Ed Morrissey’s breakdown of the Wilson-Plame follies.

An extra chromosome, a “not-quite” Downs Syndrome Baby. it is a sad story - it always is but really, is this the definition of what makes “perfect parents?” Being althetic, fit and well-off? There’s gotta be more to parenting than that. Amy Welborn writes on the distance this difficult subject always evokes, and the very Catholic idea that is so distasteful to so much of the world.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and it has been, for quite some time. It’s a shame that so many look at the perfidy of Palestine and call it Israel’s fault. More here. Also, very briefly, Ed Morrissey is right, Sodano routinely hauls out the kneepads for EU, and Papa Benedict should have learned from watching JPII that he should speak for himself on these “big” pronouncements, because Sodano tends to edit and the press runs with it. And if you’re asking, no, we Catholics do not “have” to accept this “statement” from…someone, somewhere, in the Vatican. More on that another time.

Meanwhile, as WWIII begins, Jacques Chirac joins the Global Warming Gasbags and calls for a unified solution. Just as long as Bush doesn’t come up with it, and they don’t have to acknowledge, praise or work with him.

Julie, meanwhile, begs you to consider the impact on the Pirates!

You all know how I feel about watching men pee and the world’s tiresome fascination with it. Beth has more on how weird it’s getting.

Psssst! Neo-neocon is a killer. Murderer! Killer!

Siggy is monitoring (and alerting us to) a creeping virus.

Betsy Newmark tears a tremendous hole in the latest delusion-enforcing tool being promoted to make some folks - the gullible ones on either side - feel good or bad, respectively.

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