A friend of mine just dropped a hint – a veiled one, as in, “maybe I’ll go to the church down the street and find out what it takes to become Catholic,” which made me happy, of course. I gave him the line from noted conservative Paul Johnson: “come on in, it’s awful!” We can keep each other company in exile. Anyway, that’s cool. Pray for his discernment? While you’re praying, please pray for Kim and her husband and their... Read more
Pope John Paul II and Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pin Mei Today at mass, our priest – by no means a reactionary sort – remarked on the Gospel reading for the day, which was Jn 10:31-42. I took notes, but still am paraphrasing a little: “I think the men who wanted to stone Jesus were offended that he would come in their era, that he would intrude on their time with his messianic talk. Because it’s one thing to look for... Read more
For anyone who is interested, here is a podcast of morning prayer for Friday, April 3, as we near the end of Lent. Insomniac night, so please pardon the scratchy voice. I was very tired when I put it together. If you are looking for other podcasts, or the Rosaries, I have moved them from the right sidebar to left, for now. I haven’t decided whether I like them there, or not. Someone asked me if – for next week... Read more
You know, it’s so sick, I really didn’t want to write about it. I linked to Amy Welborn and figured I’d let you folks find this monstrosity on your own, but I want to make sure you read it. These remarks were made before a NARAL audience, in 2007, but are only just getting some reaction, perhaps because of the current movement to suppress the conscience clause that protects doctors, nurses and pharmacists from losing their jobs, and Catholic hospitals... Read more
Let me say right off the bat, I have never thought, as apparently many still do, that Barack Obama was a Muslim. Obama said he was a Christian, and – although it is difficult to believe he sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and never heard him utter racist or anti-American sentiments – I tend to take people at their word, until their behavior informs me otherwise. Such is the case, here. President Obama’s own behavior has me... Read more
Taking a page from the left, Nice Deb is asking if anyone on the right is dreaming about President Obama (or, of course, Rush Limbaugh, his evil nemesis). Apparently, I am not the only “conservative” woman dreaming of Limbaugh, but our dreams are very different than the dreams of Obama. Not surprising. Frankly, after hearing the MSM pooh-pooh the brouhaha in the UK press over Michelle Obama’s “touching the person” of Queen Elizabeth II, and daydreaming that the press had... Read more
Hmmmm… Let’s see…it sounds – in this article – like the Bush administration treated the press more thoughtfully and professionally than the Obama administration does. Unlike President Bush’s White House communications team, which usually timed press conferences abroad to coincide with the U.S. morning programs, the Obama operation kicked off the president’s first day in Britain while most Americans were still asleep. What’s more, the president banned most reporters from nearly every event he held on a day busy with... Read more
For the past few weeks I have occasionally mentioned a young woman named Heather who is battling a cancer diagnosed while she is pregnant. Some of you (including one seminarian) have kindly asked to be kept apprised of Heather’s situation (and the baby’s), and have kept her in your prayers. Yesterday the patient liaison person at her hospital sent this: We’ve all been praying for Heather…As you are aware, she had stage 3 cancer under her tongue. Since Heather found... Read more
So, yesterday I was off in Brooklyn again, for another coupla episodes of In the Arena, and as usual the good folks at NET had arranged a car for the ten minute drive from mass transportation to studio. Typically, the drivers are immigrants from the Middle East or India, and – with the exception of one cranky sort who seemed to have had enough of driving through pedestrians for one day – they’ve all been sweet, soft-spoken fellows with genial... Read more
Well, if I was behind in my email before, now I’m catastrophically behind. I don’t know what is going on with gmail but I haven’t been able to access it for most of the day. I may never get the email answered. Sorry. Read more
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