LIke in my Freshman year of college when I took my 3rd year of Latin...what was I thinking?
Pope Francis dies aged 88 (new Pope is Leo XIV)
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Not since Ricky Ricardo used to blow up at Lucy.
I took four years in high school.
By Latin IV, I was the only student.
Could be worse.
I was on an expedition kayaking trip around Isle Royale about 15 years ago.
My buddy was trying to find the Canadian weather stations on his radio while we were in camp, and kept finding the ones that were in French.
He looked at me with a serious look, and said, "French can be the most insulting language!".
It can be.
One of my French teachers gave me a book called Wicked French.
On the beach, you could ask a buxom lady, "Would you like me to rub some sun cream on those?"
Walk into a restaurant and asked, "Is it true that you are ashamed of your menu?" (this one is particularly popular with French restaurant owners).
At a farmer's market ask, "Are those raisins or do you have a rabbit behind the counter?"
You know, useful phrases like those.
I may have relayed this story here before, but when I was in college, we had a guy who was from the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. His broken English was heavily Southern in tone, which was funny. His great uncle was a big politician in the Mississippi Delta.
I knew a little Arabic. One day he was giving me a hard time, and out of the blue I told him in Arabic: "Screw your whore sister". His smile and laughter turned sour. He wasn't expecting that.
I remember hearing "sharmoota" on one of the many Middle Eastern series we've watched. It means "dirty, promiscuous" etc. It's part of the slang epithet I shot his way.
I had three in HS, but I declined the fourth. BTW, once got through with the required Latin liturgical part, he switched to Italian, and then Spanish, at the end...
Hahaha sound up
VIDEO: A new Pope from Chicago needs a true Chicago introduction...
VIDEO: A new Pope from Chicago needs a true Chicago introduction...
Trump's tariffs are working so good now even the Pope is made in America.......
Sitting in a Latin Mass with my son in Krakow, my son pointed to the words "filioque," and said that word right there was the cause of the falling out between the Bishop of Rome and the Bishop of Constantinople.
One little word.
One little word.
The wrong one and he dropped an F bomb.
Finally a pope that speaks American, just like Jesus.
But, like an iceberg, concealing a huge theological rift underneath the surface...
My pontiff is American made
Born and raised in the USA
From the Latin that he chants
To the Rosary he prays
The pontiff is American made
Born and raised in the USA
From the Latin that he chants
To the Rosary he prays
The pontiff is American made
Cardinal Prevost has the very real chance to be the first elected official from Illinois not to end his term in office by beginning a jail term.
I have often thought that, if Jesus came back to Earth, and saw what humans have done with what he said, he would be disappointed.
"Filioque? Really? That's what you are focused on? 'Pray for your enemies,' I said. 'Love one another,' I said. But you guys get so focused on theology of filioque that you murdered one another over differing interpretations of that word? Were you even listening to what I said?"
Is Leo XIV the 1st black Pope?
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