Still good counsel 32 years later. Read more

Part of my ongoing series of utterly baffling nice theological reflections on Mary that are in such incomprehensible contrast to my hurtful denunciation of the use of torture that deeply wound the ever-so-sensitive feelings of those who are eager to make the US into a torture regime and mute the Church’s teaching in to absolute silence. How do I reconcile a love of Mary with my hurtful remarks about those who want to subject human beings to drowning, hypothermia and... Read more

Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, It is with pleasure that we invite you to the fourth lecture of the season, Thursday, February 25, at 7:30 pm in Conference Room 109, Otto Miller Hall on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. Otto Miller Hall is directly across Third Avenue West from the Royal Brougham Pavilion (see the campus map). The full Events Calendar for our current season is available at our website. We are pleased to present... Read more

The Lenten-themed crossword puzzle! Read more

Check with your local Republican party bigwig to find out. What’s good for Scott Brown is good for the prolife movement. Read more

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy vs. False Courage, aka Cowardice, Dishonor and Incompetence Read more

From the incestuous world of Washington DC: At the core of the legal arguments were the views of Yoo, strongly backed by David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s legal counsel, that the president’s wartime powers were essentially unlimited and included the authority to override laws passed by Congress, such as a statute banning the use of torture. Pressed on his views in an interview with OPR investigators, Yoo was asked: “What about ordering a village of resistants to be massacred?... Read more

that would be the Dad who flew a plane into a building and killed some innocent people because he felt put upon by the Great Satan of the US. Although she said that act was “inappropriate”, she hopes that “now maybe people will listen.” Charles Krauthammer has instructed us that if you have the “slightest belief” that torture will save a *single* life then you are morally bound to do it. Krauthammer, to be be sure, adds the science fiction... Read more

Todd, over at Catholic Sensibility, remarks that the mentality behind “let’s say that I lose my soul to save innocent lives. Then so be it.” is “a sort of neo-pelagianism”. I was struck by this since something along the same lines occurred to me yesterday. Pelagianism and neo-pelagianism are both species of the notion that, if you work hard enough, you can earn the forgiveness of sins and the life of the Blessed Trinity. They are both rubbish ideas, of... Read more

…Is it time to dump the term ‘pro-life’? No. I think that, instead, it’s time to *be* pro-life. That means, as Tom Kreitzberg says that prolife organizations and spokesoids should a) advocate a correct position on at least one of the issues delineated in the Catechism concerning respect for human life; and b) advocate an incorrect position on none of those issues. I’m talking to you, Judie Brown. You too, Austin Ruse. Is it too much to ask that prolife... Read more