Patheos is a great place to blog. The primary reasons I say that are that (1) I can write anything I want, and (2) I can set the rules for my blog. Every blogger here at Patheos has those freedoms. What that means is that there are a variety of ways that we deal with the conversations that arise in the com boxes. Deacon Greg Kandra doesn’t allow comments at all. Other bloggers allow any and all comments, no matter... Read more
Party leadership has delayed Republican National Committee’s annual meeting to avoid conflicts with the March for Life. The day that both parties do this, we will know that we have won. Until that day when both the Ds and the Rs stand for the sanctity of human life, things will just keep flipping back and forth and the only winners will be the back room power brokers and special interests. We cannot prevail with half the political power in this country united... Read more
While Christians in the West grapple an almost-constant barrage of attacks on their faith from media and extreme secularists, Christians in other parts of the world are actually dying for Christ. According to a Christian News Agency article, the number of Christians who died for their faith doubled in one year from 2012 to 2013. Washington D.C., Jan 9, 2014 / 04:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Nearly twice the number of Christians were reported as dying for their faith in 2013... Read more
Supporters of the HHS Mandate often refer to an “opt-out” as a reason why the Mandate does not put the government in the position of forcing Christians to violate their religious beliefs. One commenter in the Washington Post even went to so far as to label the Little Sisters of the Poor and their ministry as “religiously affiliated” rather than “religious,” meaning, of course, they aren’t a “legitimate” religious enterprise. This is the sort of specious argument you can... Read more
These ice balls are rolling up on the shore of Lake Michigan at Ann Arbor. For those who may wonder, they are not the result of the pipe that froze and broke at my house. Read more
The Little Sisters of the Poor, the stand up nuns who’ve taken on the Obama administration over the HHS Mandate, are a bunch of tough customers. I mean that in the best understanding of the word “tough.” Providing frail elderly people with loving care on a 24/7 basis is work that would make the average Navy Seal turn weak in the knees. When I say 24/7, I mean twenty-four hours, right around the clock; every single day, right around... Read more
Eagle-eyed reader Marcelle Bartolo-Abela sent me the information that the satan-on-the-Oklahoma-capitol grounds story has made it all the way to Pravda. Okies in Pravda? Makes my head spin. On a parallel note, the Catholic Church is evidently training more priests to be exorcists, and a former satanist says they’re right to do so. For those who want more information about satan’s doings, descriptions of his handiwork in human affairs can be found on any news program, any day of the week. Read more
Have I told you that Deacon Greg Kandra is my hero? Seems I have. But let me repeat myself. Deacon Greg Kandra, journalist, Deacon and Catholic Patheosi extraordinaire, is my hero. I wish I could write headlines like the Deacon writes them. I wish I had a nose for news like the Deacon’s got. I wish … well you get the idea. When Deacon Greg Kandra gets enough, you know that anybody else would be froth. The Deacon got enough... Read more
We’ve are living through a breast cancer plague. The numbers of women who are living and dying with this terrible disease keep multiplying. Ask yourself, what has changed in the past 50 years that might have something to do with this? If the wholesale pushing of chemical birth control on women doesn’t come to mind, I would be surprised. Women have been subjected to any and every form of dangerous birth control that comes along. Their monthly periods are suppressed... Read more
Why do the folks at MSNBC keep jabbing themselves in the eye with the Sarah Palin stick? Are they mental? Or, are they just so utterly and completely drunk with group-think expressed as hatred that they are verging on the non-functional? In just the past few weeks, one of their commenters, Martin Bashir, has had to resign because of public outcry over an attack on Governor Palin. This particular rant was a deeply offensive mix of pornography, misogyny and just... Read more
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