Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned from his position with Mozilla. He also resigned from his position as board member of the corporate foundation. The crime which forced his resignation? He donated $1,000 to the 2008 campaign to pass Proposition 8. Can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot? What if, say, a Vice President at a Catholic school was asked to resign because he had “married” his male partner in direct violation of the contract he had... Read more
You’ve gotta hand it to big tobacco. They’re consistent. They never seem to come up with a product that doesn’t addict people, won’t make them sick, and that the manufacturers won’t lie about. I encounter the lying part from my personal experiences with the debate over e-cigs in the Oklahoma legislature. We’ve had a two-year battle over attempts by big tobacco and their army of unbelievably highly-paid lobbyists to ram through a bill that would define e-cigs as a non-smoking... Read more
How do Catholic politicians come to the conclusion that it’s A-Ok for them to vote, speak and advocate for abortion? How do Catholic politicians decide that it’s not a big deal for them to vote for discriminatory laws against whole swaths of humanity? How do Catholic politicians develop the belief that they can vote and speak for the HHS Mandate and not be attacking their own Church? How on earth do Catholic politicians come to believe that, even though... Read more
Today is the Ninth anniversary of the death of Blessed Pope John Paul II. April 2, 2005 Read more
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, has lifted the cap on how much an individual donor can put into political campaigns for federal office. It left in place a $5200 cap on how much a single candidate can receive from an individual donor, but removed the $123,200 cap on the amount an individual can contribute to federal campaigns in the aggregate. That means that the uber rich can plow literally billions of dollars into federal campaigns, all across... Read more
The Church’s teaching on worthiness to receive communion goes all the way back to St Paul. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco “Anyone who would violate this by dissenting from divine Church teaching or who are living in a way that violates the moral teachings of the Church in a serious way — what we would call mortal sin — are not properly disposed to receive Holy Communion,” Archbishop Cordileone tells us in the video below. “The Eucharist is not... Read more
The CIA lied to Congress and the American people about the brutal interrogation methods it used during the Bush administration. The agency lied about the severity of the torture it inflicted on detainees, as well as the quality of information that these methods garnered. Why? Why would the CIA want to torture people, even if it wasn’t effective? The answer to that probably goes back decades and is intertwined with areas of activity that our government has engaged in that the... Read more
Source: Photobucket This was Pope Francis’ tweet a couple of days after meeting President Obama. I wonder if there’s any connection? We live in a society that leaves no room for God; day by day this numbs our hearts. Source: Photobucket It turns out, that the Pope backed the US Bishops in his discussions with our president. Hopefully, something got through. Read more
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