Monthly Archives: March 2024

The Outrage of Christ

March 29, 2024 – 6:15 am

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST by Nikos Kazantzakis was a revelation for a young Catholic boy living on the South Shore of Boston in 1967. I found the book in our town library next to his successful novel ZORBA THE GREEK. The blurb on the dust cover shockingly declared that Kazantzakis had written this book […]

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Mary Magdalene Rage -2009

March 29, 2024 – 1:55 am

IGNORANT DOUCHEBAD ANIMALS LIKE YOU SHOULD BE ON LEASHES! Wow. It is true that I like sexy girls and the Church has never canonized Mary Magdalene, but the writer was correct in his assertion that Mary Magdalene was never an alabaster woman. There was no mention of her selling her body in the Gospel. Western […]

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Going To Hell

March 29, 2024 – 1:38 am

1. An Indian man dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. “Yes, how can I help?” asks St Peter. “I’m here to meet Jesus,” says the Indian man. St Peter looks over his shoulder and shouts, “Jesus, your cab is here!” 2. What?s the difference between the real Jesus and a picture of Jesus? It […]

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Happy Good Friday

March 29, 2024 – 1:30 am

For Catholics around the world Ash Wednesday kicked off the Easter Season. Forty days of abstinence from a favorite pleasure was a token of sacrifice for the crucified Messiah. On Palm Sunday the faithful brandished palm fronds to celebrate the Son of God entering Jerusalem. Each and every Good Friday of my childhood the priests […]

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LAZARUS II – POETRY ON SALE

March 28, 2024 – 4:42 pm

LAZURUS II BY PETER NOLAN SMITH FOTOS BY SHANNON GREER, RAOUL OLLMAN, AND FX TIMONEY PUBLISHED BY MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2024 Nearing Christmas 2022 I was experiencing liver failure. At 69 my chances for a transplant were slim, however early on Yulemas Weill-Cornell called to say come in, “We have a liver for you.” I packed […]

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