Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 15, 2016

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 8 years ago

    Rat will run a blackmail scheme out of the confessional.

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    Sherlock Watson  almost 8 years ago

    Someone had better fumigate the church — there’s a rat in it!

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 8 years ago

    thank goodness I belong to a lay ministry church

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    Randallw  almost 8 years ago

    If you can call such an organisation a church. It’s not The Church. I’m not sure how confession works in protestant organisations.

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    knight1192a  almost 8 years ago

    I have a friend who did that. I’d say he was a far better priest than Rat will ever be. Also expected the first wedding ceremony he conducted wouldn’t last and he was right.

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    oldpine52  almost 8 years ago

    It’s a very bad idea.

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    railwayman001  almost 8 years ago

    Yeah, this is why the Catholic Church doesn’t allow priests to be ordained online or over the phone, or even in the mail for that matter.

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    blunebottle  almost 8 years ago

    Hmm…today’s “Pot-Shots” is kind of related.

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    alviebird  almost 8 years ago

    I have an online ordination. I’ve never used it, nor do I ever even give it much thought. It means about as much to me as the effort it took to get it.

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    juicebruce  almost 8 years ago

    Hum…….. that is one way to collar a Rat :-0

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    JusSayin  almost 8 years ago

    Hunter S Thompson received his Doctorate from Universal Life Church. It is an excellent institution. I submitted my doctoral proposal to ULC, and they immediately offered to waive their normal, stringent requirements, based on the strength of my proposal, and for a slight fee, would have granted my Doctorate of Humane Letters.

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    MeGoNow Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Vicious. Bigoted. Grasping. Yep. He’ll fit right in.

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Did somebody sneeze?

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    I’ve heard it said that clergy do more than lay people.

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    news  almost 8 years ago

    Rat is a SubGenius.

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    mortaur  almost 8 years ago

    Poor, poor altar boys.

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    laurac5800  almost 8 years ago

    We’re f****d.

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    whiteheron  almost 8 years ago

    I didn’t know that Rat liked kids.

    (Whaaat? Too soon? )

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    mail2jbl  almost 8 years ago

    This is terrible. Rat a priest? Next thing you know, they’ll be letting sex offenders be ordained as – oh wait…

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    We have an ex used car salesman who started his own church. Just bought a 3 million dollar resort to have “services”!

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    JusSayin  almost 8 years ago

    @cdward: In New Orleans, at LSU Hospital, (before) people with (nondenominational) ordinations, have used their parking privileges for a nice parking spot downtown, where parking is at a premium, to use non-hospital business. That was before hurricane Katrina, and I haven’t been to NO since.

    I have seen people with the placards at Houston Medical center for parking to go to local businesses, the Medical Center is near the Arts Museum District, and again, parking is at a premium in downtown Houston.

    I actually considered getting the TX placard when I was going for chemo a few years ago, but that really is a stretch to call it clergy visitation, and I did not do so. Most of the clerical spots were usually full anyway in the areas closest to my Drs.

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Oh, nooooooooooooooooooooo

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    cooganm Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    I really hope they pick him to give the invocation at the inauguration next month.

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    Ermine Notyours  almost 8 years ago

    Are rodents at mega-churches still as poor as church mice?

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    Rev Phnk Ey  almost 8 years ago

    Welcome brother Rat

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    YatInExile  almost 8 years ago

    Who remembers a show called Northern Exposure? Chris Stevens became a minister after answering an ad in Rolling Stone.

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    tigre1again  almost 8 years ago

    Everybody say, “Never give a sucker an even break, Rat.”

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    Arionis  almost 8 years ago

    I’m guessing communion will be beer and pretzels at Rat’s Church.

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    Number Three  almost 8 years ago

    I’ve seen it all now. And I’m not sure I wanted to…

    xxx

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  almost 8 years ago

    Lucifer is a fallen Angel, and Rat is a fallen priest!

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    Andrew Sleeth  almost 8 years ago

    If Rat’s in, it most surely is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

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    Sisyphos  almost 8 years ago

    It’s usually not like Goat to leap to conclusions, but I guess in Rat’s case we can safely make an exception….

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    glowing-steak32  over 7 years ago

    The communion wine is now filled with brewskis.

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    alantain  about 1 year ago

    Well, considering the kinds of people who became Pope…

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