this is also the theory behind Mo Willems' children's books “People think, ‘Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books.’ But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake.”

Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.

Nursing Madonna, colored woodcut by Władysław Skoczylas, 1923.

Getting a lot of questions about my "The UCP is not a separatist party" already answered by the loud cheers for separatists at our AGM www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is better than the melting grandmother in Dante's Peak

Interesting piece on CBC Radio about young people returning (or coming for the first time) to Christianity www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Trump's rambles have become profoundly boring, repetitive and utterly predictable. However, what is truly entertaining and ever-variable is the innovative ways Cabinet members try to outdo their previous selves, and their colleagues, in performing for the boss, and glazing his insatiable ego

On December 2, 1980 -- 45 years ago -- four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of American-armed and funded El Salvador National Guard. Remembering Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel, and Jean Donovan.

One of my favourite episodes from the Francis papacy was when he was telling about when he was a boy he would fear breaking the communion fast by brushing his teeth in case he swallowed toothpaste or a little water ...

Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.

“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.” ― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

Thanks Carney!

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Red Sleigh Leaving Brown Bridge Maud Lewis 1956

O Holy Night or Небо і Земля White Christmas by the Drifters

I never install work shit on my phone, they can provision a device and pay for the internet on it if they need me that bad.

Attempted to tie a few Slumpbusters. Need to get more conservative with my thread wraps

Oh I remember the 90’s so well - I was 30 and we churned our own butter and gathered around the radio with baked potatoes in our pockets on cold winter nights

Advent is a strangely thrilling season. As nature prepares herself for the long and frozen sleep of winter, the Church calls the spirit to awake. As the days grow darker, and light fails, the Church calls us to open our eyes to the rising of a new, glorious sun ⚓ --Robert Crouse

Vindicated for my usual McD’s and A&W orders

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Thank you science

After using sort of crappy painkillers, the 300mg Advil Liquid-gels really hit different

Snow Day Holly Dyrland 2024

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Northern Pike Walleye Arctic Grayling Westslope Cutthroat Trout Burbot

Fellow baldies: I’m looking for a recommendation for a set of clippers (not razor) to cut my head hair getting the same look a standard clippers would without any guards I use a typical set but can’t quite get the right angles and my wife needs to help, looking to avoid that.

Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction: - forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe - incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents - immediately starts dating her manager - quits after two days to move back home

Banning street hockey in Canada? This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.

Fellow baldies: I’m looking for a recommendation for a set of clippers (not razor) to cut my head hair getting the same look a standard clippers would without any guards I use a typical set but can’t quite get the right angles and my wife needs to help, looking to avoid that.

'oh the church shouldn't close parishes in these neighborhoods' 'oh the church should care more for the sick and homebound and immigrant' 'oh the church should do more to feed the hungry and house the homeless' DAMNIT YOU ARE THE CHURCH

A happy Thanksgiving to all you ‘Mericans

Trying this out right away.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

Just whatever you do, don’t end up with a selection from Shostakovich’s The Age of Gold ballet in northern Canada doing a geodetic survey over the winter! youtu.be/3LHq5SpJPec?...

I don’t think it’s just that (I’m sure there’s a lot of TLM attending Catholics who read the Gospels) I think partly what happened is that during “Christendom” the conflicts Jesus had with the Pharisees et al were historicized or applied to “the Jews” in general

Early Bird Charles V 🤝 Diet of Worms

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

No serious person asks this question Winter does not a Christmas movie make. You need to *see* that it is Christmas time, and the whole movie takes place during that season. That's why Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and Harry Potter isn't, and The Thing will never be

I don’t know how to fully describe this but she has the face of a mid-2000s video game character

sorry if you did this knowing they were so popular, but I don’t understand why you’d name your kid one of the most popular names in anglophone countries for the last decade+ Olivia and Liam—nice names but how many kids will be named those in your grade 3 class

Dozy Don as a compliment to Sleepy Joe

Oh, you enjoy a particular meal? Great have fun

Americans seething in the qts and replies after being gently encouraged to eat a vegetable

while a good number of these may not be successful in either gathering enough signatures or in a hypothetical by-election, I love this so very much It's also worth noting there doesn't seem to be any against and NDP MLAs in retaliation

My own tuppence is that these fake relics work a bit like icons The icon isn't Jesus, this cup isn't really from the Last Supper, but the homage paid to them passes to the real thing (in the case of the cup it'd pass to Christ anyways as its symbolic of his blood)