:::UPDATE:::Cardinal George has put the smackdown to Fr. Pfleger:::END UPDATE::: A few readers wondered why I had not commented on, the latest piece of deplorable and unChristian high-drama to come out of Barack Obama’s church – boy, poor Obama, he’s “deeply disappointed” so often, lately, it’s a wonder he’s not depressed – the offensive preaching of one Fr. Michael Pfleger. Truth is I had posted the video over at Inside Catholic and then moved on, because I thought the thing... Read more
Ralph Peters spells out some facts: …I happen to agree with Sen. Barack Obama…the terrorists had a tenuous connection with Saddam’s regime. But it’s 2008, not 2003. And our next president will take office in 2009. It’s today’s reality that matters. * After our troops reached Baghdad, al Qaeda’s leaders made a colossal strategic miscalculation and publicly declared that Iraq was now the central front in their jihad against us. Matter of record, in the enemy’s own words. * Some... Read more
We’re still busy in the yard, so blogging will be light, and I know everyone else in the world is writing about McClellen’s book (what a lovely distraction to all the good news coming out of Iraq, ain’t it?) so I don’t have to. But glancing through the news I did see one thing I thought was kind of weird, about Barack Obama and a remark he made. The article is mostly about how Obama is losing popularity in the... Read more
It always irks me that no one thought to get the remarkable cast from the 1992 Broadway revival of Guys & Dolls onto tape. It was a perfectly cast production with great sets, memorable costumes and male chorus that sang out with heartstopping verve and virility; it was, in my judgment, vastly superior to the film featuring Marlon Brando as Sky and Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit (both miscast but don’t get me started.) I own “Off the Record”, a... Read more
I love this story! It is (no pun intended ) an in-your-face illustration of old fashioned American Can-Doism, when confronted with “nothing can be done”: Cody Hall was born with a hemangioma, a tumorous birthmark that distorted the shape of her face and grew larger as she got older. When she was 1-year-old, her doctors in England told her parents that nothing could be done about her condition, so her parents took her to see surgeons in the U.S. Fourteen... Read more
This past Sunday was the Corpus Christi Sunday where we ponder the Eucharist and Jesus’ words to us in the 6th Chapter of John’s Gospel. I meant to post this – a repost, actually, from April of 2006. BUSTER AND THE GIFT FREELY GIVEN After Mass this evening Buster and I headed out for a quick hamburger and somehow the discussion came up about how the Holy Eucharist is sometimes accepted at Mass by someone only to remain unconsumed and... Read more
Quiet around here today because I was supervising a gang of college-age young men – Buster and pals – who were doing landscaping to earn some extra money. These bruisers were laying down 6 yards or so of mulch, getting at the “hard to reach” weeds and otherwise helping to prettify the place up – for a fee, of course, and all the juice, water, soda, watermelon and grub I could provide. At one point I handed out a “bucket... Read more
At Fausta’s Blog, she links to this lovely short film, a sweetly evocative scene of the joys of anticipation to which we – in our era of immediate gratification – no longer allow ourselves. Perhaps that is why it made one of Fausta’s reader’s weep; perhaps we miss anticipation in our move to easy cynicism, and we miss the intimacies of family which allow us to know each other so well that we may both tease and enjoy each other.... Read more
The first time I wrote about Ted Kennedy, someone suggested I was too quick to leap to the political, which was probably not a bad criticism since, as I confessed in my follow-up piece, I – like other Catholics had added shame-to-shame and scandal-to-scandal with my imperfect charity. Clearly it won’t be the last time I write about him, but Inside Catholic has my latest onthe Crucible of Ted Kennedy and all those ways we gather our own kindling with... Read more
My Li’l Bro Thom sent this video my way wondering why MSNBC does not appoint an editor to Howard Beale Keith Olbermann to let him know when he’s gone over-the-top. I suspect they like him ranting and over-the-top, and that Olbermann is simply further proof that Paddy Chayefsky’s brilliant satirical film, “Network” was a prophetic masterpiece, that Chayefsky watched the corporate takeover of news divisions and knew it would eventually deliver unto us all a nightly scold by a sensationalist... Read more
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