<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f81b6d83-926b-4270-b578-ace476423b88/1284706F-8CC4-46D3-913B-950DAB01ED38/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html" href="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ironiccatholic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html">99. When someone <A href="http://www.thegreatstory.org/stardust-lent.html">decides to use glitter rather than ashes</A> on Ash Wednesday (God bless them)...there are consequences.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html">97. <A href="http://www.puppetville.com/store-categories-Ministry-Sets_666100.html">Hand puppets during homilies</A> are (generally) discouraged.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html">96. Stephen Colbert is <A href="http://ironiccatholic.blogspot.com/2006/07/de-deification-of-american-landscape.html">on our team</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html">95. We've got the <A href="http://www.lasermonks.com/">Laser Monks</A>!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html">94. Instead of just being weird...you can be a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mysticism"><SPAN>mystic</SPAN></A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html">92. Instead of being an extreme introvert...you can be <A href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04329a.htm"><SPAN>a contemplative</SPAN></A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic.html"><DIV>91. We've got theology; others have choir practice.</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html" href="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ironiccatholic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html">90. Those <A href="http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0082/0082_01.asp">Chick Tracts</A> make splendid kindling at CYO camps.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html">89. We have a <A href="http://holywhapping.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_holywhapping_archive.html#114378095088540630">St. Bobo, St. Bean, <SPAN>and</SPAN> a St. Quadragesimus</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ironiccatholic.com/img/89192F2E-5828-4AC8-9B98-8ABEAED13D52" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html">87. The words <A href="http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/multimedia/content/galleries/gal42_1.html">"clown" and "eucharist"</A> are never mentioned in the same sentence.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html">85. We're the big boy (and girl) theologians: we use dead languages in our universities, seminaries, and major documents. And, frankly, <SPAN>we don't care if you don't understand it.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2006/08/top-100-ironic-reasons-to-be-catholic_28.html">82. No other Christian communion gets to <A href="http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/stj01002.htm">bury a statue and pray to sell a house</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1284706F-8CC4-46D3-913B-950DAB01ED38/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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