{"id":7255,"date":"2005-04-14T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/14\/cant-tell-your-pope-without-an-emoticon.html"},"modified":"2005-04-14T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T20:32:00","slug":"cant_tell_your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/cant_tell_your.html","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t tell your Pope without an emoticon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kensmen.com\/catholic\/letterstyle.html\" target=\"_blank\">abbreviations, acronyms, and Latin phrases that &#8220;Catholics use&#8221;<\/a> (though, as a former Catholic, I never used many of them).  Odd (and dubious) in some places, it&#8217;s still a pretty nifty collection &#8212; learn the origin of the book\/movie title <em>Quo Vadis, <\/em>as well as how to make a Pope emoticon &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; well, I guess I can show you that one:<\/p>\n<pre> <font size=\"x-large\"><strong>+-(:-)<\/strong><\/font><\/pre>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall Fr. Pothoff teaching us that one in CCD &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/catholic_vocabulary\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting collection of abbreviations, acronyms, and Latin phrases that &#8220;Catholics use&#8221; (though, as a former Catholic, I never used many of them). 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