Da Woild is Full o' da Cwaziest Peeples

We here at Bloody Nib Manor are not Catholics. We are not Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics nor Anglo-Catholics. In fact, some would argue that we are anti-Catholics since we are Protestants. The ever lovely Lady Nib was baptized as an Anglican and your faithful correspondent was baptized as an Old Baptist.
But this is not to say that we harbor animus toward members of the Church of Rome as long as those members are truly Christian; in other words Catholics who have placed their faith totally in Our Lord Christ instead of the Church or the Virgin or the Saints.
Since the Second Vatican Council the Roman Catholic Church seems to have decided, in many ways, to embrace the world instead of Christ. Pope John Paul II, as admirable as he was, seemed to harbor feelings of deep ecumenicalism that went beyond the embracing of other Christians. He invited the teachings of the Dalai Lama and suffered the nonsense of Muslim clerics despite the fact, that according to the New Testament, both philosophies and (and your's shudders to use the word since theology is properly a science restricted to Christians; for other religions the study of religious thought is vain speculation) and theologies, are neither salvific nor true.
Some Spanish Roman Catholics seem to have taken a stand against the intrusion of false religion into Spain: Independent Online Edition > Europe The Muslim world likes to think that Spain was a Muslim country before it awakened to the "Truth" of Islam. In fact, Spain was a Christian country before the Muslim hordes crossed the Straits of Gibraltar. According to historical tradition, the apostle James, the half brother of Jesus Christ, established the Christian Church in Spain. In fact, one of the first pilgrimage sites in the Christian world was the church supposedly established by James.
Those in the know know that the pilgrims of old used to sport a seashell as evidence of pilgrimage. The seashells were reputed to have come from the area around the church founded by James.
But Muslims are idiots and have no sense of history, let alone theology.
Those of an age may remember Cat Stevens. He was the bargain basement version of the singer Donovan. Donovan was, and is, a very nice man. He is not a Christian, but is a rather New Age type who truly wishes no harm to anyone. Cat Stevens, on the other hand, became a Muslim, which, considering the fact that he is a British subject of Greek heritage, is a strange thing. A Greek becoming a Muslim is like a Jew declaring that he's a Nazi. Debbie Schlussel has an update on Cat Stevens and his comeback tour: Debbie Schlussel We here at the Manor assume that Mr. Stevens is having trouble paying the rent and must resort to saying one thing while meaning another to make some jack and friends. The old Protestants used to call such behaviour as Jesuititcal, but now we call it Islamic.
We at the Manor did not watch the Rose Parade on New Year's Day. We prefer our parades to be celebrations of national victory or pride instead of football. But the television news broadcast images of the parade and we found it seemingly odd that there was a contingent of knuckleheads dressed as Imperial Storm Troopers followed by a band dressed as Imperial soldiers as based on the Star Wars movies. Those who have seen the Star Wars films know, the Empire and its adherents are the bad guys. Imperial Storm Troopers equal the Waffen SS of Nazi Germany and the imperial soldiers equal the Wehrmacht of World War II. There was even some clown marching with the Imperial Storm Troopers dressed as Darth Vader. Darth Vader equals Heinrich Himmler. Meanwhile, the forces of freedom, in other words, the Rebel alliance, were poorly represented in the parade. It makes one wonder about the desire of the populace of the Great Republic to maintain their freedom. It would have been more comforting to have a troop of Jawas march in the parade than Storm Troopers. Finally, Nancy Pelosi was named Speaker of the House of Representatives this week. During her coronation (and make no mistake; she considered it a coronation) she had a group of children join her at the dais of the House of Representatives. It was then that you writer realized that children had taken over the government.