The Supreme Court says that Obamacare is a new tax on Americans. President Obama agrees. That is the basis for the Court’s decision to allow the mandates forcing the American people to buy insurance stand. They are not, in the Court’s view, a mandate to purchase a product. They are, rather, a tax on the American people. Ok then, let’s look at Obamacare as a tax. Based entirely on what I saw when I went to the website yesterday,... Read more
I didn’t sign up because I already have health care coverage. However, I did go to the Obamacare website at healthcare.gov and put myself through the steps. I got to the point where I select a plan and click “buy.” It worked ok for me. I dunno. Maybe I didn’t go far enough with it. Or maybe I have a magic touch. What I did learn is that the premiums for health care are no bargain. If health insurance... Read more
The so-called Bishop of Bling, Bishop Frantz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, has been suspended for what may prove to be misappropriation of funds. The charges against him are basically that he has been living large off monies that should have gone to Church ministries. Other bishops find themselves in situations like that of Archbishop John Nienstedt of the Archdiocese of St Paul Minneapolis. This bishop is in trouble for failure to remove priests with pedophile problems from active ministry. While the... Read more
Deacon Greg has the story. The Vatican has suspended Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the so-called “Bishop of Bling.” This action is less than the calls from at least some quarters in the German public to dismiss the bishop, and it is more than the nothing which many people expected. Rather than make a public statement about the bishop’s guilt or innocence, the Vatican confined itself to saying simply that “A situation has been created in which the bishop can no... Read more
I can never undo what happened to those boys, and that hangs incredibly heavy on me, says Jennifer Haselberger. That is evidently the motivation that led Ms Haselberger, who is the former chancellor for canonical affairs for the Archdiocese of St Paul Minneapolis, to turn whistle-blower against her employer. Ms Haselberger found what she describes as child pornography on the computer disks of a priest who is still in active ministry. She resigned her position with the archdiocese after her attempts... Read more
Many Catholic universities have become salt that has lost its savor. They’ve drunk so deeply from the post Christian cup that if you took the word Catholic from their names, you would never guess they were anything other than another state-run school. Their alums, as well as the rest of us, feel cheated by this. After all, a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into building these schools, all of it dedicated to the proposition that a Catholic... Read more
The reluctance of predominately Christian countries to speak out is remarkable. That quote comes from a February 2012 article in the National Review. The article describes a PEW Research study which says that over 200 million Christians live in countries where they are persecuted. The article also states that over 100,000 Christians are murdered each year for their faith. After going through all these facts, the National Review author comments that the reluctance of predominantly Christian countries to speak out... Read more
To join the conversation about Six Sacred Rules for Families; A Spirituality for the Home, or to order a copy, go here. Family life will either be the salvation of America, or the death of it, depending, almost entirely on whether or not American Christians begin living their home lives like the Christians they say they are. That has long been my opinion about both family life in this country and the future of the country itself. We are imploding... Read more
Government money is not free. It is a hammer than can beat people and institutions into the government mold. It is also a great corruptor. The Church in Germany has been dealing with one particular manifestation of this corruption in the person of the bishop the press and people have dubbed “The Bishop of Bling.” Germany levies a church tax on those who register as members of a recognized church. The government then cuts a big check to the... Read more
This one is for my precious Mama. Read more
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