Fr. Stephen Vrazel
@keytarcatholic.bsky.social
Roman Catholic priest who plays the keytar (tweets do not represent my parishes nor my archdiocese)
Alabama’s Gulf of America Act has officially gone into effect, meaning that state employees – including journalists at some public radio stations - are now required by law to use the term “Gulf of America” rather than “Gulf of Mexico.” www.al.com/news/2026/10...
First Amendment concerns mount as Alabama’s Gulf of America law kicks in
Deviating from the law may result in disciplinary action or termination of employees, a station official said.
al.com
The man was on my lunchbox in kindergarten. (Not a photo of my actual lunchbox - I googled it.)
What a dear man. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord!
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord. As a big Star Trek and X-men fan, I have to say that the most powerful work that Patrick Stewart did by far was his advocacy against domestic violence. youtu.be/TqFaiVNuy1k?...
Patrick Stewart Gives Passionate Response to Question At Comicpalooza 2013
YouTube video by Heather Skye
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“The Church promotes culture because it is a good in itself, a service to the human being and to the fulfilment of her vocation on earth.” “…Gaudium et Spes reminds us not to live the faith in a spirit of opposition or hostility towards the world, culture and its human expressions…” —Pope Leo
Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s general audience given October 28, 2026 - OSV News
The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Oct. 28 in St. Peter’s Square.
osvnews.com
Other food based costumes I've done over the years:
Happy Halloween from chef and entrepeneur Ettore Boiardi! (Rather than candy, this year I'm giving out cans of ravioli.)
From Archbishop Grob's apology letter posted four hours ago:
Fr. Stephen Vrazel@keytarcatholic.bsky.social · last wk.Any church nerds out there who can identify these bishops?
I have never uttered, "make it make sense," and I never will.
You wanna do this for real? You say no cameras. Otherwise you're casting your pearls (i.e. your having been configured to Christ in your ordination) before swine. And they will trample you and tear you to pieces.
Any church nerds out there who can identify these bishops?
SlavaUkraini033@slavaukraini033.bsky.social · last wk.First case of exorcism at the White House. Catholic archbishops and bishops pray with Trump in the Oval Office.
The 50s were rad but for none of the reasons the retvrn guys think
MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · last wk.Henri Matisse, Church Vestments (chasuble, stole, maniple, chalice veil, burse), c. 1950 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135523
Meant to say "was." Call it editorial fatigue (not the only kinda fatigue I get at my age)
Did you know the Jan. 6 files are actually missing? Trump wiped the Department of Justice website of records related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Luckily we saw this coming, and downloaded all of the files before they could get to them. jan6memoryproject.org/
The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
jan6memoryproject.org
Holding the bottle of molasses and thoughtfully saying "I wonder what they do with the rest of the mole." A classic dad joke
Broke: "Oceans are now battlefields." Woke: "I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
My view in the rectory parlor as the Angelus bells ring and the sun goes down:
Meanwhile, I now have a new reaction image. (see alt text)
Despite my having told Facebook multiple times that I don't want to see posts from this page, they still pop up. But I have to say this one's a pretty hilarious self own. They picked the most "we demand to be taken seriously" photo of the schismatic bishop and the most chad picture of Pope Leo.
Remember how a bunch of seminarians in the 60s and 70s expected the rule of celibacy to be lifted so they went ahead and got ordained but then subsequently left the priesthood?
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"
Just checked in on Facebook and the algorithm thought I wanted to see LifeSite's cursed take.😐😑 I mean, I did hit it with the laugh emoji... ...but then I clicked through and hid all posts from that account. "Life" Site my eye.
Excellent metaphor - but will we have what it takes to do to it what we did to asbestos?
Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3w agoAsbestos also had ‘good use cases’
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
news.berkeley.edu
To the tune of Red Red Wine: Butternut squash You make me feel so posh...
“I read very little. I want my own opinion, not somebody else's." -Tommy Tuberville, US senator and Alabama gubernatorial candidate
Today is the 16th anniversary of my ordination as a deacon. That's me in the photo walking up to Bishop Hebda for the laying of of hands. My brother took the photo and blew it up for me as a gift for priestly ordination.
It stands for "my friend's" gonna turn me Catholic
