The Great Cold Moon

December 4, 2025. This is the Great Cold Moon in Mohawk

 

No, Goebbels wasn't excommunicated by the Catholic Church for marrying a Protestant

Joseph Goebbels, Bundesarchiv, via Wikimedia Commons

I think Christopher Hitchens was being unfair when he said that Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated by the Catholic Church for marrying a Protestant. He said this in his 2007 book God Is Not Great, and in other speeches and debates, including one where he mocks the church by saying "See, we do have our standards". Under the Canon law of that time, Goebbels would have been automatically excommunicated under the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 2319. Goebbels put himself in a state of excommunication, not the Church. No formal excommunication action against Goebbels by the Church has been found but in 1930, The Bishop of Mainz did formally excommunicate Nazis in his diocese. 

Officials in the Catholic Church had an inconsistent relationship with the Nazis, sometimes collaborating, sometime opposing.

A Redditor named AlbatrossLanding wrote "Geobbels (sic) wrote in his diary that he was excommunicated for his marriage, at the time of his marriage." but I can't find it in the available online version of his diary in German, which does not have an entry for that date and a search of the text doesn't find the German word for excommunicate.

He also said in one video that 50% of the military wing of the SS were Catholic, but in this book he brings the figure down to 25%.

Bad dream about Krystal

I had a dream about driving Krystal's corpse - I think I was trying to get her to Boston. I guess I feel bad because I haven't gone to visit her grave because of the situation in the States over immigrants.

Turkeys gleaning field

Turkeys looking for corn grains

 

Filming for Cheese on Top

 I joined the extras for filming an episode of Cheese on Top, a project by Stacey Case for Bell. Windsor, Ontario has an odd pizza with shredded pepperoni, something not found elsewhere except some places around Montreal, and the running gag is a protest against Windsor's pizza contrasted to Cornwall's cheese on top style.

Lawn darts using a pizza (Windsor pizza?) as a target

coloured tape used to mark position for actors

Slate operator found this -  Chinese says"Training note

Specimen

For training use - Do not circulate"

Windsor Street Cornwall is rebaptized 'Windsor Pizza Sucks Street".

Huge Irish Wolfhound takes part in filming

Mom punk band Wet For Days

Ottawa’s punk rock mom band. Wet For Days, 

Sarah Gott, lead guitar vocals, Steph Leger - Bass, vocals, Deirdre Dooley - drums,  at Bud's Records, 108 Pitt St, Cornwall, ON, 14 October, 2025

Band has six children between them. 

Wet For Days Bandcamp , Instagram , and website

Aurora, near Akwesasne, Ontario, 1 AM, November 12, 2025

Aurora, near Akwesasne, Ontario, 1 AM, November 12, 2025, some ice still on branches

 

Animated gif  via ezgif.com