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12.24.2008 4:22 pm

What should the Weatherbird say about Christmas chaos?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Christmas is typically some version of controlled chaos — it’s loud and rather messy, but tends to create fond memories.

Take, for example, Santa. Like the photo submitted by Gluten Free Mom, the otherwise jolly man seems to cause a lot…

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09.23.2008 12:23 am

In God we text

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

092308You know what happens when I take a day off? The Bird line list gets lost.

There have been a couple of interesting examples of communication, interactivity and immediacy lately. A few weeks ago, CNN started a show with anchor Rick…

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08.18.2008 7:31 pm

Godspeed

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

081808About 1,500 people were at St. Louis Cathedral Basilica for Archbishop Raymond Burke’s farewell Mass. Burke is heading to Rome where he will lead the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.There was a horrible Bird line incident last night: They…

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06.28.2008 12:00 am

Burke’s law

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

062808Archbishop Raymond Burke has been appointed to head the Vatican’s supreme court.

Bird line suggestions:

  • Moving up
  • Rome improvement
  • Higher calling
  • Judgment day

Today’s Bird line: Burke’s law
(Which, I admit, I didn’t get right away, but was a 1960s TV show and was revived in the mid-90s….

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05.18.2008 12:03 am

Men in black

051808This month, nine seminarians from Kenrick-Glennon Seminary will be ordained as priests in the St. Louis Archdiocese — the largest St. Louis ordination class in 25 years and one of the largest in the U.S.

The Weatherbird’s feeling (and looking) pretty…

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04.17.2008 2:05 am

Roman candles

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Pope birdThe Popemobile (and Pope Benedict XVI) was out and about in Washington, D.C. Did you realize the Weatherbird was driving?

OK, not really. Popemobile trivia time:

  • When the pope travels, the Vatican ships a limo built with a bullet-resistant-glass cage to the pope’s destination.
  • The…
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04.13.2008 1:00 am

Mass appeal

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Pope birdPope Benedict XVI’ arrives in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday — his first trip to the U.S. since he was elected pope. Several local Catholics are headed to New York to see the pope at a youth rally on Saturday.

The Bird-liners…

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02.17.2008 1:00 am

It’s a forgiving business

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bakker Bird“The Jim Bakker Show” has moved from its temporary home in Branson to a new complex in Blue Eye, Mo., called Morningside. Of course, the Weatherbird is there to greet visitors to Blue Eye.

Today’s Bird line suggestions:
• The pew…

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