Nuns Finance Trip To Vatican With Bake Sales And Trips To The Casino

The Little Sisters of the Poor from San Pedro, California wanted to go to the canonization ceremony of their founder Jeanne Jugan to be held at the Vatican. But since they are a "begging" order they couldn't just go to the cash machine, so according to the LA Times:

"To raise the nearly $10,000 they needed for the trip, the sisters held more than 20 fundraisers in three months. They sold hamburgers, nachos, hot dogs, Italian sausages, omelets, waffles and baked potatoes. They held bake sales, ice cream socials and a rummage sale. Twice they raised money by taking residents to a casino, and last week, in one of their final events, they hosted a country-western hoedown in their auditorium, complete with hay stacks and line dancing."

Where there is a will; there is a way.

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Spider Bugs Pope Or Is It...

Satan!

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Nuns From Lady Gaga's High School Don't Get Lady Gaga Which Is Okay Because We Don't Get Lady Gaga Either

Let's face it: no matter how much Lady Gaga takes from the Madonna playbook she still is looking like a manque. According to the news source of our times, The New York Post:

The nuns who teach at the Convent of the Sacred Heart girls school on East 91st Street are said to be aghast at the exploits of one alumna, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, a k a Lady Gaga..

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They all have a contract with super entertainment mogul David Geffen. Yes, Il Papa has landed a big fish contract to produce an album. Let's hope the Pope gets The Stone Poneys to back him up or that he does covers from Late For The Sky. Sphere: Related Content

Pope Breaks Wrist: New York Times Concerned

I wonder if this is the hard news version of gossip sites paying attention to every little detail of Jon & Kate (our secular saints of the many. many children.) No jokes, just hard news from Nuns Having Fun Calendar 2010! and the Growing Up Catholic books!

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Nuns In Top Gear

It is one of the great guilty pleasures of the cable/sat television world: you can get BBC America in most places and one of their great shows is a silly, sexy, funny show called Top Gear. It looks like it is about the car world past and present but it is really just boys playing around with expensive cars...and going fast. Celebrities try to beat each other each week on a race course and the Top Gear hosts travel the world for no particular reason except it has to do with cars.

Sometimes they stage goofy things to do (like drive a car down an Olympic ski jump run) or get a NUN to drive a monster truck and crush cars. Our kind of show. On BBCA. Sphere: Related Content

The Original Father What-A-Waste

Sure Father Oprah (Father Cutie of Miami) is getting all the press but the original Father What-A-Waste (or Whatawaste if you prefer) is on page 42 of the New York Times Bestseller Growing Up Catholic.

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Vatican Calls "Angels/Demons" Harmless

From the Vatican paper:

The film offers "more than two hours of harmless entertainment, which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity," L'Osservatore's reviewer wrote. It's "a videogame that first of all sparks curiosity and is also, maybe, a bit of fun."

We were worried it would be as tedious as the first one.

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Who Is The Top Chef Who Gave The Nuns A $30,000 Oven?

Did you know there is a monastery in the heart of old Hollywood with a group of nuns who support it by baking pumpkin bread? That the recession is causing them serious problems and THEN the oven broke. So who was the TOP CHEF who gave the nuns a $30,000 oven so the pumpkin bread can rise again!

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Let's Say Good-Bye To 2009...Early!

OKay, let's face it. 2009 is going to be a wash. Bailouts and layoffs. Bonus armies of Wall Street are marching and the little guy can't catch a break. Well, let's just forget it and dance...dance...dance our way to 2010 with Nuns Having Fun Wall Calendar 2010!

These calendars are some of the bestselling each year and we know why...because nuns are forever and as long generations of Catholics remember they will be held in our fond memory.

Until 2010 rolls around so might also want to see the book that started it all: Growing Up Catholic. In print continually since 1984...longer than any book except that encyclopedia and the Bible...and a couple others.

Also see the Nuns Having Fun book which grabs much of the great stuff from the many years of calendars along with new material. Say it loud...I think I am Catholic and I am proud!

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