tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post735577803040858988..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Celebrity status: a national subculture names its drinking game after Scott HahnUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-41173358399571240782014-07-30T09:52:08.794-04:002014-07-30T09:52:08.794-04:00Thanks for straightening us out, Jordanes551. You...Thanks for straightening us out, Jordanes551. You seem to have enjoyed the experience.<br /><br />I was unfamiliar with EOTT. I stay away from most Catholic blogs, because, despite some solid exceptions (including RC), they tend to be top-heavy with neo-Cath boobishness. A quick look at EOTT reveals that it is yet another effort of today's Catholics to embrace the secular world with joy, confidence, and courage -- to say nothing of self-conscious mimickry of their secular ideal, The Onion.<br /><br />As for my comments, I think they stand without need of correction for the most part. But I do apologize for leaving the impression that I thought the USCCB might actually be able to exercise some influence on the policies of "Catholic" universities. Such a thought would certainly be worthy of an incisive EOTT parody.<br />Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-45332082349824977442014-07-29T17:38:07.713-04:002014-07-29T17:38:07.713-04:00Nor from Dr. Blosser's post, for that matter ....Nor from Dr. Blosser's post, for that matter . . .Jordanes551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-31319809137135748232014-07-29T17:35:45.331-04:002014-07-29T17:35:45.331-04:00"I think we're all aware EOTT is a parody..."I think we're all aware EOTT is a parody site."<br /><br />That was not at all apparent from RRD's comment.Jordanes551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-40906223500624006322014-07-25T22:41:17.734-04:002014-07-25T22:41:17.734-04:00Jord, I think we're all aware EOTT is a parody...Jord, I think we're all aware EOTT is a parody site. We're playing along with the pseudo-seriousness of the article for laughs.Steve Daltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365458906085087105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-46117579108061205822014-07-25T03:23:10.670-04:002014-07-25T03:23:10.670-04:00The Eye of the Tiber is a Catholic humor/parody we...The Eye of the Tiber is a Catholic humor/parody website. Dr. Candice Jarvis doesn't exist.Jordanes551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-72194846860943859002014-07-24T11:14:24.859-04:002014-07-24T11:14:24.859-04:00Hey, it could be worst. They could be reading Mark...Hey, it could be worst. They could be reading Mark Shea on the death penalty! That would 100% guarantee death by alcohol poisoning!Steve Daltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365458906085087105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-70649527404348459382014-07-23T21:47:53.024-04:002014-07-23T21:47:53.024-04:00You're aware that "Eye of the Tiber"...You're aware that "Eye of the Tiber" is a parody site, right?TJBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-76286625720823725682014-07-22T16:19:34.301-04:002014-07-22T16:19:34.301-04:00If your priest is cribbing Hahn you are at least a...If your priest is cribbing Hahn you are at least ahead of the other 90 percent of parishes where he is cribbing Ray Brown!JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684142528414196410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-57180087173080651362014-07-22T09:57:13.982-04:002014-07-22T09:57:13.982-04:00A few comments:
(1) I went to a franciscan unive...A few comments:<br /><br />(1) I went to a franciscan university, the same one Thomas Merton attended, and I am not seeing an element of originality in anything Ben Johnson has "invented." Will this bounder next claim credit for "Thumper"? <br /><br />(2) "Dr Candice Jarvis of the USCCB," who is sounding the alarm that drinking games threaten to become the next Black Plague sweeping "Catholic" college campuses, should relax and guzzle a few herself. After four years of carousing amongst the franciscans, I can attest that her dire warnings of the horrors of alcohol for college students are at least fifty years too late. <br /><br />(3) Warnings about college drinking from the USCCB fall under the category of CYA bloviation. If colleges, Catholic or otherwise, were truly concerned about students drinking themselves into fatal oblivion, they would do something beside cluck uselessly over it -- they would reinstitute the time-honored principle of in loco parentis. Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. If you want your institute of higher education to be a financially solvent enterprise, if you want to be able to stock your faculty with big name educators, free access to the panoply of vice is a must. Besides, "we are all saints," and therefore enforcement of moral behavior is not only unnecessary, but something of an insult. <br /><br />(4) This is actually a pretty good early test case for the V2 claim that "we are all saints" and should therefore embrace modern culture with love and confidence. With that "reasoning" in place, "in loco parentis" did not have a leg to stand on, and was gone with the wind even before I graduated. <br />Modern Culture 1, Modern Catholic teaching 0.Ralph Roister-Doisternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-67417513699786307712014-07-21T19:26:25.421-04:002014-07-21T19:26:25.421-04:00It would be even worse if you downed a drink every...It would be even worse if you downed a drink every time he started a new paragraph with a pun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-31943414437547032792014-07-21T06:01:54.735-04:002014-07-21T06:01:54.735-04:00How about rolling a joint every time your Parish P...How about rolling a joint every time your Parish Priest cribs his sermon from Hahn's egregious eisegesis about the First Mass being a seder?<br /><br />May as well be high as one experiences the lows of the fifth evangelistMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com