This is me, Eccles

This is me, Eccles
This is me, Eccles

Thursday 6 June 2013

Happy Birthday, Cardinal

Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium turned 80 this week, on Tuesday, June 4th, and we are happy to celebrate his life and achievements here. H/T to Protect the Pope for some relevant information for our little tribute.

gay pride

Danneels, in the lions' den, addresses a gay pride.

Godfried Danneels has shown sympathy with the "equal marriage" campaign, and firmly rejects Jesus's views that marriage is something involving a man and a woman of opposite sexes. "How can a man not identify with his orientation?" he says. Cardinal, do you really need basic Christianity explained to you?

orientation

Which orientation shall we go for today? Hetero- Homo- Bi- Trans- A- or Pan-?

Danneels also says that the French should stop protesting about "gay marriage," and thinks that "The Church has never objected to the fact that there is a sort of 'marriage' between homosexuals." It is not clear what church he is referring to, but clearly it is not the Catholic Church.

French demo

Stop protesting? Mais nous sommes français! C'est notre sport national!

Anyway, the Catholic Church in Belgium is truly grateful to you, Cardinal, for all you have done over the years. It now feels more "God-freed" than ever before, as church attendance and pastoral vocation have almost entirely fallen away.

Brussels sprouts

Brussels sprouts - nearly as unpopular as Brussels priests.

14 comments:

  1. Daneels turned 80 what? What or who has he been turning?

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  2. Dear Sir,

    Once again I am impaled to put pen to paper complaining about your "luvvly blog", this time concerning the blatant anti-Belgian racism in your latest misleading article. It is very easy to mock the Belgians, for nobody can name a famous Belgian apart from Hercule Pierrot the tedious mime detective.

    Here in Tunbridge Wells we are proud to regard ourselves as honorary Belgians. Who can name anyone famous from Tunbridge Wells? Our station forecourt market includes stalls selling chocolate, lace and Cistercian beer.

    Disgusted of Tunbridge Artois

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  3. Once again I am compelled to put quill to vellum complaining about the Kentish lagomorph.

    Here in Stockport the parish hall is alive with the sound of Soeur Sourire, the famous Belgian nun, which I play on my Phillips Bakelite gramophone - accompanied on the saxophone by our chief flower arranger Audrey.

    I gaze out of the window and contemplate the stars - pondering the work of Fr Lemaitre, who I remember well from my youth (he got very cross when I told him he was INTJ on the enneagram, and offered to cast his horoscope).

    In fact he had such an objection to rubenesque witches that he threw his biretta at me - and when the police arrived, he said "Ceci n'est pas un chapeau" and left through the toilet window, landing on a small white dog called Snowy, who bit his ankles harder than a comedy deacon. He leapt on the nearest bike -and careered off towards Marple, pursued by its owner Eddy.

    Vive le Roi Leopold!

    A bas, les lapins espagnols!

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  4. Once again, I feel morally obliged to set finger to keyboard.

    Chimay beer is wonderfully delicious, particularly when served in its Grande Réserve variety, suitably aged for around 3 years in a cool cellar, stable at around 7-8°C.

    Monsieur "disgusted" of Tunbridge Artois clearly has NO understanding WHATSOEVER of the salvific qualities of a good religious beer.

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  5. Yet again the intergalactic slug and Kentish lagomorph err in matters of faith, morals, and beer. Forget all the foreign muck. Good English Catholics should drink Abbots Ale - to protest against Henry VIII's destruction of the monasteries. Comedy deacons should avoid Buckfast cocktails on a Saturday night, however.

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    1. Good English Catholics should drink Abbot Ale

      Such brilliantly ecumenical drinking advice simply cannot be argued against.

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    2. (though it's an objective heresy to drink it otherwise than on tap)

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    3. Proximate to heresy to drink bottled. Objective heresy to drink it canned. Ex communicable offence to add a wedge of lime and drink it out of a Perspex tankard in the canteen at Digby Stuart.

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  6. It sounds like ‘Disgusted’ has his (hers?) chalybeate Pantiles in a twist again…

    No famous Belgians? Obviously not a golfer, or the moniker “Muscles from Brussels” would spring to mind.

    OK, maybe not ‘famous’ - but working on it…

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    1. Now you are being silly. How could a rabbit play golf?

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    2. Jadis I have it on good authority that the original Gentleman’s Game – or ‘smackin’ the feathery’ as Old Tom Morris used to call it – used rabbit holes on the links.

      Not sure how they retrieved the ball when holed. Perhaps rabbits were employed for this?

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  7. Most of the comments are too long here for someone with attention novus disorders.

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  8. Danny was as demented as a box of frogs in 1970

    http://www.dici.org/en/news/belgium-cardinal-danneels-and-islam/

    " Islam is advocating true values, like the idea of a transcendent God, frequent and regular religious practice, social cohesion and also the fact that, for them, religion may also intervene in social life. If it does so without overstepping on what belongs to the State, this is no problem."

    He omitted to mention: terrorism, rioting, incest, murder, massacring Christians, crucifying children, "honour killings", the barbarities of Shari'ah law, aggressive expansionism, & other such delights. Cowards, ignoramuses & Quislings like him are directly responsible for the de-Christianisation & Islamisation of the West.

    The only famous Belgy is Tintin, who lead Belgium in the space race & landed on a billion blue blistering barnacles in a thundering Typhoon.

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    1. What about Hercule Poirot, the most famous Belgian Catholic?

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