The Nun's Kiss

A cabbie picks up a Nun.

She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her.

She asks him why he is staring.

He replies: "I have a question to ask you but I don't want to offend you."

She answers, "My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."

"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."

She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that: #1, you have to be single and #2, you must be Catholic."

The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!"

"OK" the nun says. "Pull into the next alley."

The nun fulfills his fantasy, with a kiss that would
make a hooker blush.

But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.

"My dear child," says the nun, "why are you crying?"

"Forgive me but I've sinned. I lied and I must confess,
I'm married and I'm Jewish."

The nun says, "That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween party."

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!

theteach

Jim McGreevey, priest?

Should McGreevey become an Episcopal priest?

Well, why not? Will the Episcopal Church admit him as a candidate? They have accepted him as a member of the Church:

The former governor, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at St. Bartholomew. (Newsday.com, AP New Jersey)

McGreevey has entered the church's "discernment" phase that usually precedes any seminary work, Bean told The Star-Ledger of Newark in a report posted Wednesday on its Web site.

This is where the Episcopal Church stands on homosexuality and ordaining gay priests: (Wikipedia)

The ordination of homosexuals and the practice of blessing same-sex unions within some dioceses has caused criticism by many within TEC and in the greater Anglican Communion. There are a variety of practices within the Anglican Communion.

The Church of England considers a celibate person of homosexual orientation to be eligible for ordination, even if the person has entered into a civil same-sex partnership, noting "The Church should not collude with the present assumptions of society that all close relationships necessarily include sexual activity."[ House of Bishops issues Pastoral Statement on Civil Partnerships, July 2005, paragraph 20.]

According to the Windsor Report of the Anglican Communion, the 2003 consecration of The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, an openly gay man living in a committed relationship, was a landmark event for those on both sides of the issue.

There's a lot more to the position of the Episcopal church and the Anglican Communion but it seems that McGreevey is on his way. It is between him and his God what happened between himself and his wife and children. It's my guess he'll have to make amends before he is ordained.

I wish him the best.

theteach

Photo: Angel Over Me

Smiley Pool, The Dallas Morning News

ANGEL OVER ME — Sr. Margaret Mosala plays with five-year-old Jenifer Dikole as she comes to the child's home with an outreach team from the the Baylor-Botswana Center of Excellence making a home visit in Magodishane, Botwsana, Thursday June 23, 2005. The team was there at the nun's request to HIV test the children, orphaned by AIDS, who had been taken in by extended family. Jenifer tested free of the virus, but her cousin tested positive.

theteach :)