Homeschoolers throw Compendium release party!

The Ironic Catholic has a flat-out brilliant "news article" on a Compendium release party:

Catholics Line Up at 12:01am for New Compendium of the Catechism, Barnes and Noble Puzzled

The release of the Compendium of the Catechism on March 31, 2006, found some Catholics literally in the dark. Members of St. Benedict's parish of Nashville, TN, camped out in front of the local Barnes and Noble bookstore to buy the book at the stroke of midnight.

Some local kids came dressed for the line as favorite Church theologians. Some dressed as St. Thomas Aquinas ("I really hope he's in there a lot," said Brendan O'Connor, age 10), others as St. Teresa of Avila ("That castle mysticism is so radically cool," said Angelica Suarez, age 12), and others as John Paul II ("I want to be a pope when I grow up," said Mark Pellowski, age 7).

All parents and children were disappointed that there was no party at the store to celebrate the new Compendium. One parent, John Thompson, fumed, "If they can milk Harry Potter for all it's worth, I really think they can bend their capitalism greed in our direction for once. All we're asking for is to be allowed to buy a book and celebrate a little."

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Another clever article from the Ironic Catholic is entitled "Forget Mars and Venus: Men are Ontological Teleologists, Women are Existential Phenomenologists". A quote from the "author":

"I suspected that mature religious sensibilities would prefer basing their understanding of gendered humanity on something with more meat than planet metaphors. Now that this book has cracked the top 500,000 on the Amazon seller's list, I think I am proven right."

Gauranteed to brighten your monday morning.

h/t: GOP Soccer Mom