This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) and Dan (The Ambassador Of Nonsense) discuss the strange world we're living in where people hold on to ceremony for the sake of ceremony--long after they've lost the important event that the ceremony was created to solemnize. Clocks with fake pendulums. ROTC graduations with fake guns. Blessings with fake blessings. It is truly a clown world, and it's getting a bit scary.

In current events, TikTok banned in Montana. Mad Cow disease in South Carolina. Pope Francis still trying to negotiate peace. H5N1 in Brazil… here come the culls. DeSantis is running for pres. The Dodgers can't make up their minds about gays. OpenAI CEO wants regulations. Josh Alexander released. Cops not sued for false arrest. Cops being killed in Canada. Sam Brinton arrested again. Vatican says Fatima was fake. Canadians want homeless dead. RFK Jr. is proabortion. Epstein blackmails Gates…supposedly. EU to force farms to stop growing.

In the land of nonsense, woman heals quickly. Roommate shot for stealing hot pocket. Art painted with beer leavings. Doc fired for asking someone to hold the sponge.

Trivia question: what is the City of David?

Show Notes:

Link  to Jim Caviezel's interview:

https://rumble.com/v2ohw40-watch-the-sound-of-freedom-a-spotlight-on-the-global-movement-to-end-the-tr.html

Dan's Notes":

If these genes can be fully mapped and replicated, maybe we can develop the mood organs envisioned by Phillip K. Dick
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-woman-barely-feels-pain-and-heals-rapidly-scientists-are-unraveling-her-weird-genetics/ar-AA1bDhdt

You didn't know they were really that good.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2023/05/kentucky-man-accused-of-shooting-roommate-for-eating-last-hot-pocket-reports.html

Beer has more to offer than we thought
https://apnews.com/article/danish-golden-age-beer-paintings-1717e9bfe5a9d253e24a0a5ebc1398cf

They let me wear this lab coat...
https://apnews.com/article/germany-operation-amputation-toe-surgeon-cleaner-b0f8d9299694db4057c9291aabb905b6

Eric's Notes:

Iifesitenews
• LA Dodgers decide not to honor group of ‘trans nuns’ that mocks Catholicism after backlash
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/la-dodgers-decide-not-to-honor-group-of-trans-nuns-that-mocks-catholicism-after-backlash/
§ LA Dodgers reissue invitation to anti-Catholic drag ‘nuns,’ apologize for excluding them from ceremony
§ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/la-dodgers-reissue-invitation-to-anti-catholic-drag-nuns-apologize-for-excluding-them-from-ceremony/
§ The baseball team apologized to the blasphemous group that openly mocks Catholicism and the 'LGBTQ+ community' and promised to ‘educate’ themselves in the future.
○ Far-left California mayor invites anti-Catholic drag ‘nuns’ to Angels baseball game
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/far-left-california-mayor-invites-anti-catholic-drag-nuns-to-angels-baseball-game/
○ The anti-Catholic drag troupe finds more support in the so-called City of Angels.
• OpenAI CEO calls for gov’t regulation of new technology that could ‘cause significant harm’
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/openai-ceo-calls-for-govt-regulation-of-new-technology-that-could-cause-significant-harm/
• Calgary Police release Josh Alexander after his arrest at school protest over gender ideolog
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/calgary-police-release-josh-alexander-after-his-arrest-at-school-protest-over-gender-ideology/
○ Transgender counter-protesters burned Bibles and harassed the 17-year-old Canadian Catholic student but faced no consequences.
• Canadian police officer shot to death in unprecedented surge of law enforcement murders
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-police-officer-shot-to-death-in-unprecedented-surge-of-law-enforcement-murders/
○ There have been nine officers killed across Canada in the past seven months as police have been increasingly ambushed when responding to calls.
• Canadian cop who gave $50 to Freedom Convoy ordered to work 80 unpaid hours as punishment
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-cop-who-gave-50-to-freedom-convoy-ordered-to-work-80-unpaid-hours-as-punishment/
○ Constable Michael Brisco will be forced to serve the extra hours on rest days and vacations.
• Vatican guards open fire, arrest man who sped through gates in his car
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-guards-open-fire-arrest-man-who-sped-through-gates-in-his-car/
• Biden’s ‘nonbinary’ former nuclear official arrested again for stealing fashion designer’s luggage
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bidens-nonbinary-former-nuclear-official-arrested-again-for-stealing-fashion-designers-luggage/
○ Sam Brinton is now suspected of stealing dresses belonging to a Tanzanian fashion designer from Ronald Reagan National Airport.
• Vatican Mariologist suggests apparitions about God’s punishment are ‘false’ despite past approval
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/vatican-mariologist-suggests-apparitions-about-gods-punishment-are-false-despite-past-approval/
○ The president of Rome's Pontifical Marian Academy appeared to implicitly reject the authenticity of apparitions such as those of Our Lady of Fatima in comments labelled as ‘contrary to Divine revelation.’
○ April 15, 2023, a new body was established within the PAMI, which is set to provide key training and guidance to Catholic bishops on how to respond to alleged Marian apparitions. Reportedly it is a direct response to requests from bishops themselves for assistance dealing with alleged Marian phenomena.
• Students stay home in droves on a day when Ontario schools fly ‘pride’ flags
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/students-stay-home-in-droves-on-a-day-when-ontario-schools-fly-pride-flags/
• Texas passes bill to reform infamous ‘10-Day Rule’ that lets hospitals take patients off life support
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/texas-passes-bill-to-reform-infamous-10-day-rule-that-lets-hospitals-take-patients-off-life-support/
○ The new bill would extend the '10-Day Rule' and ban hospitals from ending patients' lives based on 'quality of life' judgments, among other things.
• New poll shows 28% of Canadians support euthanasia for homelessness, 27% for poverty
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-poll-shows-28-of-canadians-support-euthanasia-for-homelessness-27-for-poverty/
• Biden State Department offers free counseling to staff ‘triggered’ by accidental ‘misgendering
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/biden-state-department-offers-free-counseling-to-staff-triggered-by-accidental-misgendering/
• RFK Jr. declares he would ‘keep government away’ from banning abortion as president
○ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rfk-jr-declares-he-would-keep-government-away-from-banning-abortion-as-president/
○ RFK dissents fr