Your Daily Dose of Catholicism and Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert talks about his childhood in a Catholic school.
I didn't go to a Catholic school, and I've never held nuns in awe (growing up around a post-Vatican II nun will do that to you) but his post encapsulates why I still hold Catholicism close to my heart, even though I disagree with some of the Church's morality. Like Ebert says, matters of sex and so on were only obliquely referred to, and at least in our American churches, hellfire and guilt were never really hammered at (I later learned Irish churches were different!) So the mental bonds I had to break were quite light when I hit puberty and started looking at the world with a broader mindset. The values of helping the poor and oppressed, however, were firmly established.

Random Funny

On the way to Whistler today, we were at a McDonalds with a tv showing the news, and there were captions scrolling by. It was talking about a car accident, and a a doctor who was walking by who helped out. But because it was broken into lines, it just said:

DOCTOR WHO WAS WALKING BY



PS got into Canada with my expired passport. Yay! Not looking forward to being harassed on the way back, but whatever. I'm on vacation with my parents.