Archive for November, 2010

San Antonio Adult Entertainment: Catholic Culture.org the TSA of Catholic Journalism, takes on the Vatican

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

And now Catholic Culture.org – the TSA of Catholic Journalism – has finally had it “up to here”  with the Vatican newspaper after it published excerpts from the new book called “Light of the World”.  Book snippets that revealed Pope Benedict’s evolving belief that  HIV infected male prostitutes who choose to use condoms perhaps demonstrates a morality superior to those infecting somebody with the deadly virus unprotected, has Lawler and Mirus fit to be tied and insisting that heads should role.

Most Catholics I know saw no huge controversy in the Pope’s statements  – after all Pope Benedict XVI was talking about homosexual prostitutes infected with HIV – which we argue is not a large segment of the Catholic population.   Most folks without the help of Catholic Culture understood the Pope was not talking about teenagers at Catholic schools in the United States.
Philip Lawler then asks “Why didn’t the Vatican publisher warn Pope Benedict that his statement was bound to be distorted? Why didn’t the Pope himself recognize that r …

See the full article from “ministryValues.com (press release)”

San Antonio Strip Clubs: Hiaasen looks at celebrity obsession

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

The public has known Cheryl Bunterman as Cherry Pye since she was 14, “when she’d first appeared in a dubious buckskin cowgirl outfit on the Nickelodeon network.” Despite having learned her dance moves from “a petite stripper recruited at a local gentlemen’s club” and owning “the weakest singing voice ever heard from anyone not confined to a hospice,” the teenage Orlando native is a star — a la Britney and Lindsay.
In Carl Hiaasen’s latest novel, “Star Island” (Knopf, $26.95), the former Cheyl Bunterman’s handlers — her parasitic parents, greedy-gut manager at Jailbait Records, one-armed bodyguard, Botoxed beyond belief PR team and overworked stunt double/stand-in — are scheming to keep the wild child rock star with a nasty sex and drugs habit away from the paparazzi and out of the tabloids before the imminent release of her second CD — titled “Skantily Klad” — and 27-city tour. It’s level orange in the Cherry camp.

See the full article from “San Antonio Express”