Father Cantelamessa is an idiot. Or a liar, or a lying idiot.

I just got back from Good Friday service (had to leave in the middle; I think there's at least an hour to go. At the beginning of the universal petitions, the priest who asked us all to pray for Benedict our Pope actually did an eyeroll as he said the words. He kind of ducked his head so that not everybody could see him do it, but I totally saw. The look on his face was halfway between, "Not enough prayer in the world to help you, dude" and, "It causes me physical pain to say his name out loud."

When your (several times removed) underlings are rolling their eyes at your name in public, that can't be good.

My train is one of those double-decker dealios! I'm sitting all high and shit. In the dark.

I'm caramelizing some onions. My apartment smells good.

Friday is being deathly slow, yes.

JZ, did you get an email from me the other day?

Let me go back and look, Perkins. The last few days have been a blur.

eta: Holy shit! Insending.

Okay, who else can rock this quiz like I did?

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When your (several times removed) underlings are rolling their eyes at your name in public, that can't be good.

Seriously. Someone needs to point out to Cantalamessa that vocal criticism of the way specific people behaved, much of which is coming from within the church, is not quite the same as bigoted persecution of a minority group. Plus, maybe not the most politic move when the church has also issued a few apologies for contributing to that persecution.

Perhaps in a few decades people can send a letter to the Vatican expressing their shame and remorse for their behavior, and explaining that it was an error in judgment, although their intentions were good.

the priest who asked us all to pray for Benedict our Pope actually did an eyeroll as he said the words.

This made me laugh.

Or maybe some future governing body 300+ years from now could issue a statement that Ratzinger was unfairly maligned, the way the Church did for Galileo.

Mmm. I finished cooking, and I now have lentil pate. (Which the cookbook insists on calling mock chopped liver -- it's just cooked lentils, raw walnuts, and caramelized onions, put in the food processor.) Yum.