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Entry: Mahony and Murdoch: When Roger Met Rupert Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mahony_and_murdoch_when_roger_met_rupert#2787 Post contents: I'd love to hear Dame Edna Everage interview her former compatriot and new peer, Dame Rupert: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DV4KUWD9Z68 As Martin Luther said, the best way to fight the Devil is to laugh at him. Dame Edna has done more to preserve and defend the true spirit of Christendom than Dame Rupert, and she's less vulgar too. On a more serious note, this story is just one of many reasons why - although I'm a Catholic - a part of me will always be a bit Protestant and refrain from accepting 100 percent of the Catholic church's catechism and laws unreservedly. I tend to think the Protestants play an essential, indispensable role in the Church, which after all is a kingdom of "many mansions", including some mansions for ostensible non-Christians and atheists. And now that reminds me of a good joke I heard from a Catholic monk: Well, the story says, Rabbi Goldstein arrived in Heaven, and St Peter met him there. At first the Rabbi was surprised by this, but St Peter (one of the Rabbi's distant cousins) said, "WELCOME, Rabbi! We have a room prepared for you!" So St Peter escorted the Rabbi down a long hallway, past many open doors. In one room, the Rabbi saw some Muslims drinking tea and exchanging lines of Sufic poetry, but the Rabbi said, "this isn't for me." St Peter said, "No worries, your room is further on." They passed another room full of Protestants singing hymns, another room full of former atheists debating the question, "but how can God believe in US?", and so on. Then they passed by a closed door, and the Rabbi reached for the doorknob and St Peter pulled him back and shushed him, "shh, be quiet!" Finally they came to a room where some Rabbis were praying in their own traditional way, and Rabbi Goldstein said, "Yes, this is perfect for me! But tell me, who was in that room with the locked door, and why couldn't we go inside?" And St Peter answered, "Oh, those are the Catholics. You see, they think they're the only ones here..." Sent at: 2008 10 12