you know, when you wake up with a sore throat and coughing and such…bleah. Spring can’t come soon enough. The Dog Ate My Global Warming Data Source. Insty has more links and still mores links on the breakdown. WaPo finally notices. NY Times still does not (the true believers, were they in the bunker, at the end, with Hitler?) Ah, more crumbling…and more. Ed Morrissey: Was there any actual global warming to begin with? I want me freaking incandescent bulbs... Read more
Fr. Dwight Longenecker writes: We are not mocking the spiritual battle but, rather, the pride and vanity of one who thinks himself the highest while he is really the lowest. Of course we must take sin seriously. The reality of the devil must be admitted, and, especially during Lent, we must enter the spiritual battle wearing our full armor. All I am suggesting is that part of that armor should be the swift arrows of good humor and humility. Laughing... Read more
[In Chesterton’s novel The Ball and the Cross, old Turnbull, the atheist] starts falling in love with a young Catholic woman named Madeleine. . . she finally talks to him not only about his duel, but about the sacraments: He advanced upon Madeleine with flaming eyes, and almost took her by the two shoulders. “I do not love God,” he cried, . . . “I do not want to find Him; I do not think he is there to be... Read more
As we know, the feastday of this saint has long-been distorted, first by customs and lovers, then by haters who must make everything political: But this is interesting stuff, too. The train is never late: every time Valentine’s comes around, the Muslim world reacts with ferocious rage, with its leaders doing everything in their power to quash the festivity that comes with the celebration of private romance. Imams around the world thunder against Valentine’s every year — and the celebration... Read more
Jesus teaches us, “I tell you truly, anyone who will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, will never enter it.” There is a challenge with Chesterton. The challenge is this: we have to adjust our whole way of thinking when we read him. We are not used to thinking in the language he uses. But if we can learn to think his thoughts with him, he can reawaken in us that sense of wonder that will... Read more
John Hawkins’ latest poll takes a few of the questions asked in a dubious dailykos poll . I am actually surprised at one or two of these answers. You can probably figure out my responses. Check it out here. Oh, an in other news, Obama -by not interfering with the Iraq situation (including withdrawal timelines) that he “inherited” from George W. Bush- declares via Biden and Gibbs that Iraq is his greatest accomplishment. The spin is mind-blowing. And pathetic. More... Read more
You know, from time to time, I have more conservative Catholics give me a hard time for linking (or referencing) the Jesuit priest and writer, Fr. James Martin. James is a Jesuit, so by definition, yes, he is going to be a little more left-of-center than me on some things, but those who would dismiss him as a far-leftist, or -more importantly- as anything but obedient and loving of the church wherein he works, and the Lord he serves, risks... Read more
Count on our friend Fr. James Martin for the goods: If you’re in a listening, not watching, mood you can check out my podcast about the Immaculate Conception which also covers the story of Bernadette Soubirous and Lourdes. Here, you can read the whole chapter on Bernadette from My Life With the Saints. A look at Bernadette Soubirous The 67 “official” Miracles of Lourdes Some images of the processions Deacon’s Bench Catholic Passion Read more
Margaret Cabaniss has a knack for finding the most interesting headlines, and this one is pretty jarring: VATICAN ECONOMIST: RECESSION CAUSED BY LOW BIRTHRATE Blames Small Families, Poor Savings Habits ROME, FEB. 8, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Bankers are not the cause of the global economic crisis, according to the president of the Institute for the Works of Religion. Rather, the cause is ordinary people who do not “believe in the future” and have few or no children. “The true cause of... Read more
Charlie Wilson has passed: Wilson, a Democrat, represented Lufkin in the U.S. House from 1972 to 1996. He gained notoriety for his efforts in the 1980s to support the mujahedeen in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation during the 1980s. Wilson secretly secured congressional funds to arm the Afghans. The funding eventually grew to billions, roughly half in hidden U.S. taxpayer money, half in matching Saudi Arabian funds. The secret funding was spelled out in a 2003 bestselling book by former... Read more
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