Got to love the mainstream media for not knowing what that strange black mark on Joe Biden’s forehead was. I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that the newswoman who’s so confused by the ashes is actually Catholic or the fact that she makes a luge joke just days after a man died.
February 18, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Yeah, those two have some real class. Sheesh! Even my non-Catholic friends knew it was Ash Wednesday yesterday.
February 18, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Every time I see this guy, and here with a mark of faith on his head, I am totally angered at his selling the unborn down the river time after time, and the unholy company he keeps. I used to see him coming to Mass in Wilmington all the time. How does he do it? How does he square it? Abortion is so simple – a no-brainer for any Christian person. People like this are a total mystery to me.
I see that symbol of penitence on his forehead and it just seems like a mockery. Pure theatre.
February 18, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Do British Catholics impose ashes on the forehead like Americans or on the top of the head like Italians (or… at least that's what they seemed to be doing at the papal masses yesterday)? If the latter, I should think that the lady should be forgiven at least some of her ignorance.
February 18, 2010 at 7:41 pm
At the very end she does say she is a very bad Catholic and will hang her head in shame. I'm guessing somebody filled her in. Bless her heart — she needs prayers.
February 18, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Maybe he's so excited that we are dust and to dust we shall return that he wants to get as much of a jump start on it as possible, Blackrep.
But yeah, shame on Biden for being "Look guys, I'mma Catholic!" Given the fact that they keep him on the backburner because of his gaffes, he almost feels like a Catholic groundshog to me.
February 18, 2010 at 8:13 pm
England is doomed. It is already the capital of Eurabia.
February 18, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Well, it might be legitimate for a person not to remember that Biden is Catholic.
February 18, 2010 at 10:48 pm
It's hard to tell which is more pathetic: Joe Biden showing off his Catholicism when he's publicly thumbed his nose at Church teaching, or the utter cluelessness of the Brit twit announcers covering this. Didn't T. S. Eliot (an Anglican and British subject no less) write a famous poem called "Ash Wednesday"? Duh.
February 18, 2010 at 11:22 pm
The woman was clearly embarassed in the end after either being enlightened, or remembering.
February 19, 2010 at 12:01 am
I would say what is truly pathetic is to see a Church teaching dissenter wearing ashes. He should also get some sack cloth and go the whole nine yards, repent and return to the faith.
February 19, 2010 at 1:07 am
Lukewarm Catholics beware! I went to pick up some fish at the local Kosher store (the fish is soooo fresh)early in the morning and the Rabbi in charge there chastised me for coming in public first before getting my ashes!!
Now that's true ecumenism!! Mea culpa, I left my order paid, went straight away to Mass and returned to pickup my purchase. the Rabbi took one look gave me a wink and told the cashier to take off ten percent because I was a good Catholic girl.
You just can't make this up! How much does God love me?
February 19, 2010 at 1:11 am
Blackrep…
I agree with you. Biden is clearly a CINO. It appears that the devil's bunch are good at infiltration.
February 19, 2010 at 1:14 am
Hey, we don't know what's going on with Biden, his God or whatever Priest is tasked to hear his Confession.
Let's say a prayer that him, you and me come together in God's Kingdom on judgement day and be done with it.
February 19, 2010 at 2:36 am
Biden is a sincere, practicing Catholic and always has been. He does not thumb his nose at Catholic teacing and is not a dissenter.
Yes the presenter was a twit, but so are Catholics who turn on their own.
February 19, 2010 at 3:10 am
The thing is that the Catholic Church says that abortion is not a private issue. And that you cannot be personally against abortion but support it in public and still call yourself a sincere, practicing Catholic. Biden thinks abortion is a matter of faith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83A-k0R5EPc
February 19, 2010 at 6:19 am
I lived in London for 3 years, and yes, they wear the ashes just like they do in the US (on the forehead) and not like in Italy (where they sprinkle it in your hair).
Yes, both the announcers are twits.
Yes, England is doomed and English culture will be extinct within another 70 years.
Yes, Joe Biden is a CINO and dissenter. Anyone who says otherwise has been living in a cave or had a frontal lobotomy.
February 20, 2010 at 2:44 am
Bright side folks. Joe made it to Mass and wore his ashes. Yes he's currently a CINO but maybe if we pray for him he'll come around.
The news lady apologize at the end, as I'm sure her producer was going off in her ear. Who knows maybe she even made it to an evening Mass.
Lastly we have Youtube to relive the moment. We live in a very fallen world.
February 20, 2010 at 4:32 am
At Ash Wednesday Mass (on a college campus), our priest pointed out that this is one of the most crowded masses of the year. He thinks it's because we all come knowing we're imperfect. And that people claim they don't go to church because everyone there is a hypocrite. I think we all need to realize that we are all flawed.
February 22, 2010 at 4:56 am
i feel bad for her. perhaps this will be an occassion for her to look back at her faith and look deeply at what she's missing. God uses all kinds of things.