A friend of mine was told by her church she could no longer be a member after she left her abusive husband.

You just described my in-laws’ relationship with the Church to a T. In other words, “If I say I believe and kinda-sorta follow the rules, then I’m a good person and will go to heaven. People who do this differently are clearly inferior to me.”

Seeing the words “hard” and “teaching” next to each other and above a picture of Nick Offerman is kinda disturbing, but that’s probably because—as I’ve mentioned here a number of times—Nick’s dad Ric was my 7th and 8th grade social studies teacher, and Nick looks exactly like Ric.

When our kids were younger (now early 20s) we were attending new member classes at a church near us - until I discovered that I could only be an “associate member,” not a “full member,” because I had been divorced before marrying my current husband (for the same reason - he cheated). Associate members couldn’t take…

I know that there is one priest out there who “approved” an abortion for one of his parishioners about 30 years ago. This woman was a devout Catholic - church every Sunday, confession weekly, the whole gamut. She already had existing kids, and her doctor told her this latest pregnancy could kill her and that she…

I still love that my former mother-in-law could no longer receive communion because her dirtbag husband left her for his secretary. Makes sense!! Why is anyone Catholic when they treat the guiltless true believers like that?!?!

I’m not sure what the technicality was, but three children doesn’t really rule out many of the circumstances for which annulments were designed. Annulments were never supposed to be only for unconsummated marriages

Okay.

If you can stomach the whole thing- this Philadelphia Magazine profile of Chaput is a stunning portrait of this horrid and horrible man. He is at once wholly arrogant, condescending, rude, sarcastic, dismissive and repugnant. Seriously, he may be the worst of the American Catholic Hierarchy. And that is saying a lot.

I don’t know much about the Catholic Church except that my brother-in-law and his wife, when divorcing, obtained an annulment - despite the fact that they had three children together - based on some bizarre technicality in Church doctrine. Catholics have a weird way of thinking that you can genuflect and bow and…

In order to get married in the Catholic Church, the both of you have to undergo at least six months of marriage counseling (snort) and if your partner isn’t a baptized Catholic, s/he must also undergo that.

Or you could do what my divorced and remarried parents do and just do it anyway (by it I mean communion, but I assume they also have sex). I think it was Paul who said, “It is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.”

I have to laugh at this. This is so stupid. Things like this are why these religions are dying out (aside from the usual push in 3rd world countries). Who the hell would willingly submit to these unrealistic, cruel rules?

Interesting that the Redskins and Braves both have reservations about other people taking what’s their’s.

I’m not sure what roads you’re referring to, OPB. Camden Yards is surrounded by S. Howard Street, which is an on-ramp for I-395, and Russell St., which also never sleeps. Perhaps I didn’t make it clear, but the point of the stadium guy’s testimony: Cops manage pedestrian traffic crossing those busy public roads for…

What was to stop people from taking taxis to stadiums in the 100+ years before Uber existed?

It’s kind of scary that an elected official, with a mission to serve the public, can even be hoodwinked into such an obvious scam that clearly works against the best interests of their electorate in every conceivable way. I wonder how many members of local city councils, and heck, congress, are waiting for their…

$55 is shocking, but that’s how Snyder rolls. His stadium is located in a wide open swath of suburban hell. They should pay you to go there. But, I paid the $55 like so many lazy lemmings. BTW: Great show.

I remember this bullshit. There used to be fenced in entrances to FedEx. I remember years ago walking from the metro rather than take the shuttle because I was young, poor and figured it would take just as long to walk. Got to the entrance and was forced to pay for the shuttle anyways in order to enter. God is FedEx a…

$55???? Holy fucking shit, fuck you buddy.