Elder Son, photo by PopPop This election season is so mad – and things seem so overheated – that I’m calling a retreat! Mark your calendars! From sundown to sundown, August 10 through August 16, this site will be hosting an online retreat, and all are welcome, regardless of creed, ideology or whatever. There will be no politics discussed, except as relevant in a historical way, to discussion. Look forward to meditations, optional prayer on audio files, presentations on belief... Read more
This drafting has taken me completely by surprise! If nominated, I will not run; if elected I will not serve…I will suspend my campaign! My concession, however, will cost Sen. Obama 20 Million dollars. If I don’t concede, however, I will consider Ed for my running mate; he can help me with the techno crowd! Read more
Busy day today, and I won’t be blogging much, but a few quick links: My latest at Pajamas Media I dare to tell a joke about Obama and suggest humorous banter is essential to a healthy presidency: [Comedy writers are]… doing Obama no favors by holding him exempt from ridicule. Suffering ridicule is part of the job of being president; it comes with the nuclear football, and quite possibly that is why. The American presidency is already a grave and... Read more
Almost everything I am linking to today is thanks to either Larwyn or Maggie’s Farm. Great resources! The Doc is In links to Donald Sensing who writes excellently about the positive side of hypocrisy: The true hypocrite wants others to think better of him/her than is actually justified. Absent this deceit, there is no hypocrisy, just error or human frailty. That’s what the hypocrisy-excuse people don’t understand – or pretend not to understand – about church people. What may appear... Read more
Benedict XVI in Oz Great coverage of World Youth Day 2008, in Australia, can be found at EWTN. Meanwhile… It’s that time of year – postulants become novices, second-year novices make first vows, and so forth – here are some of the first out the gate: The very lovely Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Los Angeles have brought two novices into the novitiate and celebrate three novices into first profession. Links go to slideshows of The... Read more
The article pretty much speaks for itself: WASHINGTON:( By Jim Rutenberg) Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the “in other political news” portion of his newscast. But when Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Williams is planning to catch up... Read more
…nor are Buddhist monks or nuns, or celibate Buddhists or Taoists: But what about SEX? Are you going to live without SEX? You can’t really live without SEX can you? Aren’t you curious about SEX? Don’t you want to have SEX? Aren’t you repressed if you’re not having SEX? They never ask this of the Buddhists or the Taoists because…well, those are the “good” religions, the “enlightened” religions. But if you’re a Christian – especially a Catholic – it’s a... Read more
Found in the mailbox: No One Sees God; The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers by Michael Novak. Which reminds me, this is the best book I’ve read this year, reviewed here and here. We’re painting another bedroom (I love it when my husband takes some vacation time) so here are some quick hits – follow the links, they’re all good: From the Dept. of Obama’s gotta learn to lighten up!: I can’t believe the brouhaha over the New Yorker... Read more
Photo Credit: Michael Totten A while back I wrote a piece praising Bill Clinton for having the gumption to reform welfare and called it, “his best legacy.” I wasn’t exactly wrong. But I was ignorant of something excellent which goes unnoticed and should be added to Clinton’s legacy. I know better now, thanks to Michael Totten, who spent a few weeks in Kosovo and filed this report: An Abominable Blood-Logged Plain Strange country, Kosovo. It’s European, but it isn’t Christian.... Read more
I never realized it. My Li’l bro Thom wrote asking me if I’d know Snow was a Catholic. I hadn’t, and wondered if Thom had his info right, and he sent along this Tribute to a Catholic Journalist at Catholic Online. Indeed, it seems Snow’s funeral will be a mass at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Snow made his wonderful commencement address to Catholic University of America students from the steps of the Shrine in... Read more
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