I have a big weekend in front of me, so I should get some bloggin out of the way… (Fr. Beaver, I will call you soon!!! I owe you one!) Lots from the usual sites today. I haven’t been especially exploratory on the internet because I have been working so much… Abortion as a business…
DetailsThe United States is not a theocracy. I am ashamed to see my fellow Catholics leaning in that direction. If you want to change it, amend the Constitution. Until then, National Prayer Day should be barred, per the 1st Amendment. Of course, I have heard the argument about the Founding Fathers’ religious intent for this…
DetailsAn InsideCatholic article addresses just this truth: Scarry’s analysis goes further. In The Body in Pain, she shows how torture violates every single aspect of the created world: “The contents of the [torture] room, its furnishings, are converted into weapons: the most common instance of this is the bathtub that figures prominently in the reports…
DetailsObama continues to allow the assassination of U.S. citizens. Reminds me of a picture: Aaaaaand other things: Nerdy as it is, I am fascinated by the WOW! signal, a signal from space that could have been transmitted by intelligent life. Read a rundown of it here. I don’t know what I think of the moral…
DetailsIf you went to mass for Palm Sunday yesterday, you heard these words in Luke’s Gospel (Ch. 23), from the mouth of the Christ: “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the…
DetailsBut we are “helping” blacks, Democrats say… I believe that if you care about racial or life issues (no matter what side you line up on), it is imperative that you see Maafa 21. I have always been of the opinion that racism is now institutionally extinct and limited to episodic occasion. But in the…
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