Please open your hearts to this family and child

December 12, 2004 By

Please read this report (and watch the video) of a Navy family dealing with a daughter born without a face. She has had 14 surgeries and may need 30 more. “God never gives you more than you can handle. I figure she has a lot to show everyone… to show the world,” says (her father). [...]

Filed Under: Misc.

What sort of soul are you?

December 12, 2004 By

You Are a Visionary Soul You are a curious person, always in a state of awareness.Connected to all things spiritual, you are very connect to your soul.You are wise and bright: able to reason and be reasonable.Occasionally, you get quite depressed and have dark feelings. You have great vision and can be very insightful.In fact, [...]

Filed Under: It's all about me! Me! ME!

To whom much is given, SOMETHING is expected

December 12, 2004 By

I hadn’t planned on writing about Maureen Dowd again, but I just have to say this: Had I the valuable spot of journalistic real estate she possesses, I hope I would do everything I could to use that space to inform, instruct, admonish and (at my best) uplift. I believe I would try always to [...]

Filed Under: Feminism, The Fourth Estate

They Still Love him in Damascus

December 12, 2004 By

While the folks in the comfortable blue states might not get him, the students who live in the thick of things love George W. Bush. Hattip: Instapundit.

Filed Under: Misc.

Merry Christ-mas

December 11, 2004 By

Call my younger son “Buster.” It’s a name that fits him, trust me. “Buster” works part time in a church rectory, answering phones and what-not. While he’s not an overtly religious person, he also is not shy to mention that he is a Christian. He also goes to a public high school, a very good [...]

Filed Under: Buster

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be Part I

December 11, 2004 By

On the heels of Polly Toynbee’s lament that her cancer-stricken mother could not legally kill herself, (and my response to that, here) comes another UK resident to suggest that it is better for the old to just kill themselves and not be a burden. Is anyone surprised that in a post-Christian Europe, where abortion is [...]

Filed Under: America, Culture of Life/Death

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

December 11, 2004 By

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?WB Yeats, The Second Coming Polly Toynbee’s mother died three weeks ago. Ms. Toynbee has written of it here, while in the throes of exquisite pain and some very plain anger: My mother died three weeks ago, less than a [...]

Filed Under: Culture of Life/Death, Liturgy of the Hours, My brother S