CatholicChurch posts

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (15 days ago)
Nov 12th, 2009 at 10:30AM:
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Visitors to many Italian churches will see a new addition next to the door--automatic holy water dispensers.
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/health/Italian_Answer_to_Swine_Flu_Automatic_Holy_Water_Dispensers'; Priests have been noticing that worshipers are ...

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
Aug 11th, 2009 at 6:30PM: If you're in Spain this week, you won't want to miss the festival for the "Virgin of the Dove". This takes place every year in the old barrio of La Latina in Madrid and honors an 18th century portrait of the Virgin that was found in the trash one day and captured the barrio's heart. I went to one of these a couple of years ago and it's loads of fun. There's music, dancing, and lots of limonada, ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 26th, 2009 at 8:00AM: How many people actually dress up as nuns when they get drunk?
In Crete, the answer was "17" recently. That's how many drunk British tourists were arrested for insulting the Catholic Church. After a bit of extra imbibing, they donned "nun attire and naughty lingerie," which didn't sit too well with the local cops.
The tourists were busted in Malia, which is a popular destination for the young, ...

by Josh Lew (RSS feed) (10 months ago)
Jan 1st, 2009 at 2:00PM: It might be called Sin City, but that doesn't mean that it is a complete place of moral decay (sorry). There are churches of the Catholic denomination located right on the Las Vegas Strip. The most noticeable one is Guardian Angel Cathedral, which located next to the newest of the Wynn casinos. It is actually not preaching fire and brimstone to the tourists who descend upon the city throughout the ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:00AM: A friend of mine told me this summer about how his small jar of apple butter was confiscated at the TSA security check. He was hoping to bring it from Minnesota back to Montana..
Another person recently told me that the snow globe she was bringing back as a souvenir from her vacation to California this summer was also confiscated by TSA. Unfortunately, she read the post about snow globes not ...

by Jamie Rhein (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Apr 20th, 2008 at 6:30PM: The last few weeks have been a shopping bonanza in the U.S. for Pope Benedict XVI souvenirs. People have snapped up pope items that range from rosaries to T-shirts, mugs, key chains to postcards, including Pope on a rope soap and bobble-head dolls. The urge to take a piece of the papacy home with them has enticed some folks to spend hundreds of dollars, according to this article from the ...

by Kelsey Mulyk (RSS feed) (1 year ago)
Mar 24th, 2008 at 9:40AM: You won't find any pastel colored eggs, chocolates or fuzzy white rabbits in Mexico during Easter. In fact, there isn't a speck of the materialistic, Cadbury-bunny-laced Easter we have come to know and love at home. And, believe me, I looked for those addictive Mini Eggs everywhere. Mexicans are predominantly Catholic and Holy Week, or "Semana Santa" as it is known here, is the most important ...