Clean Catholic Joke

Did I happen to mention that I am studying my life away? Yes, the Comp Exam is literally days away and the stress-worry nerves have kicked in. I've taken to studying in the farthest corner of the local Catholic college's library, where I sit amidst their ancient Augustinian collection--hoping that that dust from the book jackets, er, words of knowledge of one of my theological heroes--St. Augustine--will blow, um, flow into my study space and transform my brain from mush to mensa. (This is not the Catholic joke part.)


I am studying the assigned 9 areas of knowledge hand-selected for me by the Theology Chairperson for my exam. (Nope, not the joke part, either.) The subjects that are otherwise occupying my life are, in random order:

• Church history from Christ 'till now, broken down by period, players and major events


• three major works on bible exegesis


• the collected works of the Apostolic Fathers


• the Dark Night of the Soul and the Teresian grades of prayer


• the four constitutions of Vatican II


• Biblical theology and divine accomodation as it appears in the Bible, the Fathers, and contemporary theologians like Schonborn & Ratzinger (now BXVI)


• the Nature of Love (a philosophy class: think Dietrich von Hildebrand, Karol Wojtyla)


• the Universal Catechism of the Catholic Church


• and eschatology... which is the study of the last things, in case you were interested.

And so, with what is left of my brain, I offer you this joke that I lifted from Happy Catholic, because it made me laugh, and because I thought I might use it as the conclusion for eschatology exam question... wonder what the professor will say!


Here's the joke!