The newest issue of Charlie Hebdo makes fun of the Pope. I doubt that the editorial staff is worried about a violent response to this. After all, they’ve already printed quite a number of issues mocking and otherwise attacking the Catholic Church. I found this clip from the movie The Robe. It dramatizes the way that Christians respond to these things. The Robe is fiction, but the fact of Christian faithfulness, even to death, is how the message of the... Read more
In keeping with my longstanding tradition of kicking over hornet’s nests, I’m going to ask a question. What is the most perfect prayer? Over on the Facebook page of a friend of mine, a commenter who identified himself as a priest said that the Holy Mass is the “most perfect prayer.” A Deacon of the Church responded that yes, it was. I’ve been rolling that one around in my mind ever since I read it. Mass is, from beginning to... Read more
I remember the predictions after Roe v Wade. I thought that the people making these arguments were, to put it bluntly, nuts. Abortion will lead to euthanasia, they said. Abortion will lead to human cloning, they warned. Abortion will be used as birth control. Abortion will damage the respect our society holds for human life. I thought they were nuts. Such things would never happen. But look at us now. Scientists are in the process of creating animal/human hybrids.... Read more
If Martin Luther King, Jr was alive today, would he be pro life? His niece, Alveda King, says he would. From LifeNews.com: “I know in my heart that if Uncle Martin were alive today, he would join with me in the greatest civil rights struggle of this generation – the recognition of the unborn child’s basic right to life,” she told LifeNews.com previously. “My uncle Martin would agree that we cannot end poverty, hunger, or suffering by killing those who... Read more
Martin Luther King, Jr, spoke from the heart of the Gospels. He did what we must do: He challenged satanic evil with the love of Christ. To take the brickbats of vicious attackers who know no rules except the ones they write to cripple their opponents is the Christian fate. We are facing it today. Christianity is under attack from many directions. But we only have to look back a few decades to see the Gospel walking, marching, to... Read more
Pope Francis’ Flying Zucchetto Hurricane Haiyan: When I saw from Rome that catastrophe, I decided I have to be hear. Jesus is Lord, and He never lets us down. Many of you have asked the Lord, Why Lord, and Christ responds from His heart, on the cross. Let us look to Christ. He is the Lord. He understands us, he understands us because he underwent all the trials that we — you — have experienced. Pope to Filipino... Read more
We’ve recently had a dust-up here on Public Catholic because I had the temerity to (1) disagree rather strongly with Cardinal Burke, and (2) come out in support of altar girls. You would think that I had barbecued a kitten. I deleted a ton of hate-women comments in the course of this discussion. I also deleted another ton of hate-Rebecca comments. According to a good number of commenters, I’ve got myself a ticket to a first-class seat in that proverbial... Read more
Charlie Hebdo is publishing again. Their first cover of their first edition after last week’s shooting featured the Prophet Mohammed, holding a sign that says “All is Forgiven.” From The New York Times: PARIS — Around 9:10 on Monday evening, laughter and a round of applause broke out among the surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo, followed shortly by cries — joyous if ironic — of “Allahu akbar!” The group was cheering Rénald Luzier, a cartoonist known as Luz, who... Read more
Photo Source: Flickr Commons, Francois Lacroix I wrote a post a few weeks ago entitled, The Murder of Innocents is Wrong and Every Human Being Knows It. That particular post was about murdering people with abortion and euthanasia. I’m resurrecting that claim today in defense of the essential right to life of people who say and publish things that offend others. Specifically, I’m writing it in defense of the basic right to life of journalists and pundits who attack... Read more
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