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News – Page 144 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

December 10, 2025

Additional Tucho ‘Erotic’ Books Unearthed, After Being Hidden By Vatican, by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, Per Mariam, Substack, (Complicit Clergy) - Titled “¿Por qué no termino de sanarme?” or “Why can’t I finish healing myself?,” the 2002 book by then-Fr. Fernández in Argentina appears at least textually to be a sequel to his 1995 work “Heal me with your mouth: the Art of Kissing.” The 1995 book courted immense controversy due to its repeatedly sexually suggestive and explicit content, the inclusion of unmistakably erotic and often ambiguous sexual relationships in which the genders of the participants are unspecified.

December 10, 2025

NFL Faces Backlash Over Ad Parodying Baptism

By Mary Rose, Catholic Vote - A new NFL promotional spot titled “Baby Mafia || You Better Believe It” turned the sacrament of Baptism into a punchline, Catholic commentator Tom Nash argues in a recent Catholic Answers article... Since the early 2010s, tailgating Buffalo Bills fans have a tradition of diving onto folding tables in exuberant displays of team loyalty. That same tradition now anchors a new parody “baptism,” with the Bills Mafia, the team’s fanbase, adapting it into a baby-safe initiation ritual.

December 10, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Come to Me and I Will Give You Rest

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Matthew 11:28-30 - 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

December 10, 2025

Advent: Turning Point Universe, by David G Bonagura, Jr.

By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing - A turning point is an event that inaugurates substantial change, such as the Battles of Saratoga and Gettysburg or the Eagles’ “Philly Special” trick play in Super Bowl LII. The change is decisive – the future takes an unexpected path that would not have worked out otherwise. Its synonyms – climax, watershed, milestone – lack the critical element of beginning something new that might not have been... With Advent, we prepare for the biggest turning point the universe has ever seen: the Incarnation of the Son of God. ...

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