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Easter Bunny Sighting

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:59:13 +0000

Is it the Easter Bunny…or Bigfoot? Enjoy!

Preblessed Food

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:51:16 +0000

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Tim LaHaye meets Pixar?

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:42:04 +0000

Perhaps the next novel in the series? About as believable as the others? Continue reading →

Don’t Be a Jerk, It’s Christmas

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:05:12 +0000

No, not THAT Madonna and child…

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:53:05 +0000

True story: About three years ago, I stepped away from work to buy Christmas stamps at the nearby post office. When the receptionist saw me return a few minutes later with no stamps, I explained that they didn’t have the Madonna and Child stamps that I wanted. The young lady — an early twenty something — got a puzzled look on her face and said, “Wow…I didn’t know they made a stamp with Madonna and her new adopted baby.”

What are they teaching our young people in schools these days?

Formal wedding in the South

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:44:32 +0000

It’s hard to escape Southern Culture, even when attending an otherwise-formal Anglican Church wedding reception (see photo). I don’t think this is standard-issue from Canterbury, for some reason.

Catholic Theology Final Exam Question

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:31:31 +0000

Just found some good Catholic humor online: Theology 911 Final Exam. My favorite question:

St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo decide to rob a bank. The note to the teller is 1,200 pages long, not counting footnotes, complete with a promise of damnation if the teller does not accept immediate Baptism. In the middle of the heist, they engage in an extended debate as to whether or not the money really exists. Are they committing a mortal or a venial sin?

Notre Dame Identity Crisis: Nothing New

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:24:46 +0000

Some have recently asked if the University of Notre Dame is having an identity crisis. But this is nothing new. After all, here we have a college that shares a name with a French cathedral, uses an Irish leprechaun as a mascot, and has a dude named Raghib Ismail among its noteworthy former athletes. Sounds like they’ve had an identity crisis for quite a few years.

Thou shalt not spit?

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:59:55 +0000

This is one of those questions I never thought to ask. But apparently it was a big enough issue in the late 19th Century to address in the 1873 Boston Catechism (p 64)…no joke:

Q: Should we abstain from spitting after having received communion?
A: Yes; we should endeavor to refrain from it for the space of a quarter of an hour, out of respect for the sacrament.

Everybody got that? No spitting for 15 minutes after communion.

Father Hulk?

Lawson "Trip" Cox — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:56:22 +0000

Strange what comes up in a Google Image search sometimes. I searched for “catholic photos” and this gem shows up on page one:

Yes, it’s The Hulk as a Catholic priest. As if walking into a confessional wasn’t intimidating enough!

Anyway, I had to follow the link to see where this came from. Turns out there is an article explaining that this Marvel Comics character is a (seemingly lapsed) Catholic. In the infamous words of Stan Lee…’Nuff said! Or perhaps more appropriately…Excelsior!