Cardinal Kasper says he didn’t say it. The reporter says he’s got it on tape. “It” is the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad interview that Cardinal Kasper gave yesterday. I can understand why Cardinal Kasper is doing his best to unsay what he said. He truly did open his clerical mouth and insert both his priestly feet. His terrible, horrible, no good, very bad interview began with a few off-the-cuff remarks about how the bishops from Africa were opposing... Read more
I had high hopes for the Synod on the Family. I had hope that it would find ways for the Church to support and strengthen traditional marriage, that it would address the real problems of children of divorce who grow up with half their souls amputated by the constant roiling. I had hope that it would take a look at ways to help people who are trying their best to follow Catholic teaching in a hostile world where one McJob... Read more
A second Dallas nurse has been diagnosed with Ebola. She had traveled on a commercial flight from Cleveland to Dallas a few hours before she became ill. She is the second person to contract the disease after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, who died from the Ebola. I’m not sure how emergency room personnel, who make the first diagnosis, are going to protect themselves from potential exposure to Ebola. It may lead to masks and gloves all around, even when... Read more
On the one hand, we have the Freedom From Religion boors, sending off lawyer letters like a Gatling gun with the purpose of intimidating Christians — their target always seems to be Christians — into silence about their faith in public places. And on the other hand, we have that same FFRF, suing the federal government to force the IRS to “monitor” pastors for possible violations of the law in their sermons. Enter Mayor Anise Parker of Houston, stage left.... Read more
Ebola is the disease that won’t be contained. Today, the World Health Organizatin issue its more dire prediction so far. Unless huge improvements in control measures, the number of victims could reach 20,000 by November. WHO also revised the mortality rate, saying that 70% of those who contracted the disease will die from it. This is an increase from the previous estimate of a 50% mortality rate. The paper, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine also... Read more
Kathy Schiffer brought this to my attention. Then I discovered that the Blaze had also covered it. It seems that the Freedom from Religion Foundation is not only opposed to praying in schools, it also opposes pictures of praying. In one of their usual trivial harrassments of ordinary people going about their lives, the Freedom from Religion Foundation sent one of their lawyer letters to an Oklahoma City school, demanding they remove a poster of two toddlers with hands... Read more
The Vatican is already trying to calm things down. The Synod issued a summary document of the speeches and debate which have taken place in the Synod so far. They called it the Relatio post disceptationem, which probably added to the confusion. If they had just titled it the Official Minutes of the Synod Thus Far, it would have gone a long way toward keeping reactions from going off like bullets in a campfire. But they didn’t. They called it... Read more
I’ve put together a set of comments from the various cardinals about the on-going Synod of the Family. I think it’s best right now to let them speak in their own words, rather than try to interpret what they mean. One thing that seems apparent is that there is a wide gap between the Cardinals of the developing world and those from the wealthier nations. Cardinal Burke German Bishops Cardinal Napier on Polygamy Cardinal Tagle Poor Families... Read more
I’m haven’t been writing about the Synod on the Family because I don’t have a clue what’s really happening. The quotes from various bishops are confusing, to say the least. They’re also disturbing. That’s what happens when the press gets their hands on public statements. It isn’t usually a deliberate thing on their part. It’s more a function of what occurs during a game of gossip. Did you ever play gossip? The way we did it when I was... Read more
This video is a couple of weeks behind the curve, but it still contains information that we need to know. Read more
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