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Blogger is having an outage today - which begins in a few minutes, so I'm just going to post a link. Do not miss the new Affirming Laudianism site, or its companion Frankly Unfriendly Catholics.

If there is one thing of which the Church needs more, it is laughter at our own expense.

Francis of Assisi, when one of his friars was terribly distressed at demonic temptations, told him to just tell the devil, "Open your mouth and I'll shit in it!" Pious, English Luke Wadding, in his translation of Francis' biography, turned this into "one has only to say dung to him." What a shame.