This is a fascinating interview with Jim Caviezel concerning his experiences playing Christ in The Passion. Read more
This is a fascinating interview with Jim Caviezel concerning his experiences playing Christ in The Passion. Read more
Katrina Fernandez, who blogs at The Crescat, has courage. She also has wit, enormous talent and a great, big, loving heart. I love Katrina’s blog. She has this ability to touch my girl side, the female giggly part of me, and get it rockin’. Yesterday, she touched that other girl side, the one that has given life; the mothering, maternal, deeper than bone totally female part of me. Katrina wrote about her abortion, the experience and the grief afterwards. Good... Read more
This famous letter from Martin Luther King, Jr, to Alabama Clergy. This letter was an answer to a letter sent to Dr King by these clergy. “Letter From Birmingham Jail” April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my... Read more
This letter from Alabama Clergymen was sent to Martin Luther King, Jr while he was in jail in Birmingham, Al. It prompted the famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Statement by Alabama Clergymen 12 April 1963 We the undersigned clergymen are among those who, in January, issued “An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense,” in dealing with racial problems in Alabama. We expressed understanding that honest convictions in racial matters could properly be pursued in the courts, but urged... Read more
St Paul and most all of the Apostles did it. Martin Luther King did it. Christ the Lord did it. Would you be willing to do it, too? Go to jail, that is. In this country, we normally associate going to jail with some sort of public misbehavior that most of us agree is reprehensible. Going to jail is disgraceful. Embarrassing. A blot on your record, your reputation and your honor. But that isn’t always so. Demonstrators in this country... Read more
From the Vatican website: SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH DECLARATION ON EUTHANASIA INTRODUCTION The rights and values pertaining to the human person occupy an important place among the questions discussed today. In this regard, the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council solemnly reaffirmed the lofty dignity of the human person, and in a special way his or her right to life. The Council therefore condemned crimes against life “such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or... Read more
“We’re not meant to be passive people of faith, we’re meant to use our gifts for God.” Lila Rose, Founder of Live Action If I sat up late trying to think of a definition of the universal call to vocation that goes out to every Christian, I could do no better than Lila Rose’s statement above. We are, all of us, every single one of us, called to use our talents for God. That does not necessarily mean jumping publicly... Read more
It sounds like the House GOP is finally listening to somebody besides each other. In fact, I would go so far as to say that they might actually be responding to the disgust coming at them from we the people. In a reverse of their previous saber-rattling, they have come up with a proposal that would both raise the debt limit and (hopefully) address the deficit. Kudos to them. Now, it’s up to President Obama. It will be interesting to... Read more
Parents in Los Angeles have petitioned to take over a “failing” school. Evidently, California has a law that will allow parents to petition to take control of their children’s schools. I don’t know the particulars of this law, but I think it’s an excellent idea in theory. We have a bill-filing process here in Oklahoma with set deadlines. It’s too late in the process for me to introduce a bill doing this for this year. But I may try to... Read more
Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News).- Arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has found a way to adjust its employee healthcare plan to delay potentially crippling fines for refusing to comply with the federal contraception mandate. The company will now “shift the plan year for its employee health insurance, thus postponing the effective date of the mandate for several months,” announced attorney Peter M. Dobelbower in a Jan. 10 statement. “Hobby Lobby does not provide coverage for abortion-inducing drugs in its healthcare... Read more
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