http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog "The altar cloth of one æon is the doormat of the next." — Mark Twain Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:48:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Summertime is movie time. So if you're bored with reruns and the same old stuff on cable, with no new ideas for Netflix, for your convenience, there's the Fallen Priests Film Festival pages. I got 'em all; ranging from funny priests to devil worshippers and outright nunsploitation, with dramas ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2010/06/12/movie-time/ [caption id="attachment_225" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="Keys of Heaven, Gates of Hell"][/caption] I'm bumming today, having ended four long years of research tracking down a clue to the ultimate smoking gun, what I'd hoped would be the crown jewel of all my digging into the Church's dark and hidden history. I've called this elusive ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2010/06/03/master-key/ [caption id="attachment_217" align="alignleft" width="324" caption="Father Ted"][/caption] And now for something completely different... Father Ted. I didn't know much about this television series except that it was about 3 priests on some little Irish island. Since one of them's a disgusting, demented alcoholic lech, I thought they had to be retired and the ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2010/05/05/father-ted/ [caption id="attachment_212" align="alignleft" width="216" caption="Who ya gonna call?"][/caption] Frankly, I'm gobsmacked. Finally, unexpectedly, as it did in so many places, the scandals appear to be reaching flash point around none other than the pope. Questions have arisen about Pope Benedict's role in dealing with perpetrators when Joseph Ratzinger was but a ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2010/03/18/anybody-listening/ What's wrong with this picture? I've neglected this blog a lot. Believe it or not, I've wanted to turn my attention to topics other than clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. As a gnostic, heretic, and long time sci-fi fan, the religious implications of UFOs, what the Church knows about ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2010/03/06/picture-this/ Sometimes the best gifts are those you never ask for, but are given anyway. For instance, I would never, ever have thought of writing to Saint Nick, "Dear Santa, "This year, could you somehow have the pope tackled during a procession? I don't want anybody really hurt, but it would sure brighten ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2009/12/26/xmas-omen-of-christmas-future/ [caption id="attachment_190" align="alignleft" width="380" caption="Behind the mask"][/caption] I had a rather peculiar feeling when reading how shocked and dismayed Pope Benedict XVI said he was over the report on Irish abuse.  I was reminded in fact of a scene from the classic film Casablanca (1942). You know the one -- the ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2009/12/12/pope-shocked/ [caption id="attachment_180" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Incorruptible"][/caption] Being pretty much a hermit, it takes a lot to pry me out of my cave. Last night, I was dragged by my sister to see her husband in the opening night of a play, called "Incorruptible", written by Michael Hollinger, put on by a local ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2009/12/05/incorruptible/ [caption id="attachment_175" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="Blessing or curse?"][/caption] Here they are, two headlines next to each other this morning on ZENIT, the official Vatican newsfeed. Benedict XVI Defends Young Migrants Encourages Christians to Aid Children and Youth VATICAN CITY, NOV. 27, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is appealing to Christians to reach out to migrants and ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2009/11/28/crazytalk/ [caption id="attachment_171" align="alignleft" width="396" caption="Fr. Sanchez -- then and now"][/caption] He's back. They say criminals always return to the scene of the crime; bad pennies always show up again. So perhaps it was inevitable that the person of Robert Fortune Sanchez, the former Archbishop of Santa Fe disgraced by his own admitted ... http://www.renegadecatholic.com/blog/2009/11/10/sanchez-returns/