Results tagged “jesuschrist”

A book by Barbara Ehrenreich that calls Jesus Christ a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist" has caused two parents to remove their son from Bedford (N.H.) High School and ask the school to ban the book. The book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America recaps Ehrenreich's effort to live on minimum wage. The book is being used in a finance class. According to Dennis Taylor, the book is objectionable due to "heavy obscenities" and "Jesus-bashing religious bigotry" and "drug promotion." [WCVB] more ›

There's been a lot of negative news for people of faith, especially Catholics, in recent years. This week, the hits kept coming. Our pals at Gothamist got the scoop on Rev. Kevin J. Gray, a Connecticut priest accused of taking $1.3 million from the Sacred Heart Church. Among other things, Gray allegedly spent the cash on escorts. He also reportedly claimed to have cancer when he was cancer free. If that wasn't enough, over 100 tombstones were knocked over last weekend at St. Mary’s Parish of Lynn. Negative news has obviously hurt the Church's bottom line. A slow economy made it worse. The Globe reported that Mass attendance and Catholic school enrollment in the Archdiocese of Boston are both down. Also, one-third of parishes lost money in 2009. On Tuesday a new approach to financing Archdiocese of Boston activities was revealed. Basically, local parishes will have to make contributions to a central archdiocese fund. We'll call it revenue sharing. Not everyone likes it. Must be Yankees fans. People are still apparently praying, possibly even to an "image" of Jesus Christ at a water park it seems. more ›

• Six employees of the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad have been suspended without pay after a clandestine entertainment room was discovered at the Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville. The entertainment room featured three TVs, two DVD players, a video game system, and some of pornographic DVDs. [Boston Globe]

• Christmas broke out in Gloucester when a Disney toy was mistaken for a dangerous device. [Boston Globe]

--The production team for Bachelor No. 2 got kicked out of St. Leonard's Church in the North End. They had planned to shoot a scene inside the church, but the church's priest, Rev. Antonio Nardoianni, got wind that the crew had redecorated Umberto Galleria and named it "Cheezus Crust." Apparently Nardoianni missed the hidden commandment "Thou Shalt Have a Sense of Humor." But the location scouts probably should have put two and two together and... more ›

--Forbes announced that former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney placed fourth in their "creepiest candidate" poll. We can understand why – and it has nothing to do with Mormonism or big sticks. It's simply the fact that the man has not aged for several decades. Of course he's creepy – he's hiding a portrait in the attic! --Romney's new "crazy eyes" ad certainly won't help him get off the creepy list. Earlier in... more ›

Whoever knocked down the T-Rex of the Route 1 Miniature Golf and Batting Cages should be feeling the bad karma right about now. more ›

Say "goodbye" to the Idiot with the beard, the flowing locks of hair, the speed, the ridiculous lead-off numbers, and - yes - the throwing arm of an arthritic grandmother. Dan Roche of WBZ4 news was the first to report it, with Newsday in NY picking it up and spreading word to the Yankee faithful. Bostonist was on the way home from a late showing of King Kong at the Fenway theater when we turned on the radio and very quickly learned what in the hell was going on - phone lines were on fire among local talk radio stations, sports-related or not. It's pretty amazing that after all this time, after the Red Sox nation lavished praise on our center fielder, thinking all the while that we had Jesus Christ roaming around out there, it was actually Judas. more ›