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The Indian head massage, while I haven’t done a great study into it, the difficulty is that it involves the laying on of hands on another person’s head. There is a risk when you do that because that is a rite we use in the sacramental practice for the communication of the Holy Spirit in baptism and confirmation, and ordination as well, but if you do that outside of a sacramental rite you’re running the risk of communicating a bad spirit, not the Holy Spirit. Pope Francis said ‘do not seek spiritual answers in yoga classes’. Yoga is certainly a risk. There’s the spiritual health risk. When you take up those practices from other cultures, which are outside our Christian domain, you don’t know what you are opening yourself up to. The bad spirit can be communicated in a variety of ways. I’m not saying everyone gets it, or that it happens every time, and people may well be doing yoga harmlessly, but there‘s always a risk and that’s why the Pope mentioned it and that’s why we talk about that in terms of the danger of the new age movement and the danger of the occult today. That’s the fear.
Derry priest Fr. Roland Colhoun, who is based in the Waterside, or possibly the dark ages.
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Modern Family – not so funny now
Or ever. David Quinn spells out how voting for basic human rights will see us all married to Sofia Viagra. Sher ’tis like the end of Planet Of The Apes, only our rush to extend rights to everyone has really made a monkey out of us.
Let’s paint a picture of the sort of scenario our Government – with the full backing of the opposition parties – believes is perfectly all right.
Imagine two men who wish to be parents. There’s a problem, in that they have neither an egg nor a womb. No worries, they can simply go to the nearest fertility clinic, browse through an egg-donor catalogue and find an egg donor they like. They hand over the cash and buy the egg or eggs.
Their next problem is to find a woman willing to give them the use of her womb for nine months. She will be the so-called ‘surrogate mother’. Minister for Health Leo Varadkar is planning legislation in this area. He plans to ban ‘commercial surrogacy’ – where you pay a woman for the use of her womb – but will allow so-called ‘non-commercial’ surrogacy, which in the UK still involves paying a fee of around £15,000 to cover ‘expenses’.
The two men will then take delivery of the child who they have obtained by paying one woman for her egg and another woman for her womb, but this child will have no mother in their life. The child will be deliberately robbed of a mother.
Because men can’t be nurturing, loving parents – that’s the woman’s job!! I mean, ok the kid would grow up to be a great sports pundit or mechanic, or at worst, really great at holding remote controls, but they will have no emotional capacity. You know, like men. Not so funny now is it? Not even Modern Family funny – this terrifying scenario is closer to the dystopian horrors of later episodes of Friends, or possibly even Everybody Loves Raymond.
Yes – that awful.
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So it was that Oborne detailed what he perceives to be the Telegraph’s failure to maintain its historic standards. The editor had been replaced by a “head of content”. A front-page story had confused deer hunting and deer stalking. And, rather more profoundly, Oborne said, the Barclay brothers had presided over a “collapse” in the separation of advertising and editorial. He reserved particular fury for the failure to adequately cover the recent HSBC scandal, or a number of other controversial stories involving the bank, which is a major Telegraph advertiser. And he said the chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, had conceded that advertising affected editorial but protested that “it was not as bad as all that”.
Great Guardian piece on Peter Oborne’s scathing article about his former employer, the Telegraph. Worth a read for anyone who has ever watched as a newspaper was brought to ruination by ignorance, inaction and accountants.
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This is out of American History X.
What a young Waterford man allegedly said to his victim as he stamped on his head.
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Local man hosts caption competition for himself, with smug results
- ‘You see bishop, the money was only resting in my wife’s account‘.
- ‘Well Micheál, our only hope is in the Poles’. ‘Jesus we’re fucked in them’.
- ‘I can resurrect the dead, but you guys are goosed’.
- And so on.
And a few moments earlier:
The FF faithful out in force to seek absolution for the last 30 years at the ‘Installation of Most Rev Kieran O’Reilly as Archbishop of Cashel and Emly‘. The fact it was an installation explains why there were so many spanners.
Triple Distilled Communications 