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March 20th, 2010 at 7: 50 pm tombaker says: how does diddling altarboys make someone more qualified to understand anything besides altarboy diddling???!?

Think Progress » Bishops Dismiss Other Catholic Groups: We’re The Only Ones Able To Understand Health Care Policy 2010

There can be no adumbration of all this joy and love stuff the Christians talk about, unless it is the Grand Inquisitor doing the talking, preferably while burning Galileo, buggering an altarboy, or hiding the bones of Jesus (who should, just to make it Dark, turn out to be a vampire or something).

MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel 2009

It reminds me of the pedophile-priest scandals - the "priest and the altarboy" have been stock characters in dirty jokes for a long time - did people really not know this was going on?

A Modest Proposal Anne Johnson 2009

When we were little, while my dear brothers were all trying to learn their few altarboy Latin lines, I learned to say the whole Mass in Latin, do the hand signals, light incense and swing a censer.

Kate Clinton: If You Go Down to the Woods Today... 2008

At the risk of offending the host, I would like to pose the question alluded to by 'Billy': why should I accept the position that a bathroom where gay men are cruising for sex poses a greater risk for your child coming in contact with a pedophile than, uh, being a Catholic altarboy or Boy Scout?

Restrooms Not For "Rest" Anymore 2007

August 28, 2007 at 09:19 PM why should I accept the position that a bathroom where gay men are cruising for sex poses a greater risk for your child coming in contact with a pedophile than, uh, being a Catholic altarboy or Boy Scout?

Restrooms Not For "Rest" Anymore 2007

PALMER: Matt Mosher, a former altarboy, was among the victims.

CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2002 2002

PAULMAC - As an ex-Roman Catholic altarboy who can still recite the Latin Mass I have to inform you that Easter is not a Christian festival; it is as Pagan as you can get.

Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Paul MacInnes 2010

As an altarboy, I remember the quaint, hush-hush ceremony of "churching" of new mothers

Planet Atheism 2010

No, I am Catholic by faith, age 61, a former Tridentine altarboy, honorably discharged veteran, a retired federal employee with a graduate degree in the adult training field, a product of 16 years of Catholic education, a great nephew of a (long deceased) superior general of a religious community, and a guy with plenty of time to peruse church history.

National Catholic Reporter 2009