This is a terrific 17 minute video put out by the Paulist priests. It’s very funny in spots, but also very poignant, and in some places deeply moving, as they talk about being “Missionaries to North America” and the meaning of “God With Us.” There is open, upfront talk about the pain Catholics are feeling about the trust-breaking scandals of the past, and remarkable witness to the grace and action of “meeting God” through each other in the sacraments; it’s... Read more
Over at Inside Catholic, Anthony Esolan has written a sad and beautiful piece about marriage, commitment and death that deserves an attentive read. “Come sit over here,” my wife whispered to me. “Let’s give Dad a chance to be alone with her.” It was a quiet room in a hospice, the only sounds the muffled pumping of oxygen, and the softer and slower breathing of my mother-in-law, Esther, as she lay a few hours before her death. Her husband, Herb,... Read more
In Michigan yesterday, Hillary “won” by having her opponents basically thrown off the ballot (a move Barack Obama – it must be said – had used to his advantage earlier in his career). Seems to me Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are “of a piece” in their willingness to do anything, no matter how underhanded, to get what they want. It would not surprise me at all to see a Hillary/Obama ticket being talked up down the road, and my... Read more
What can I say – I’m a New Yorker and I still like them both! Read more
Little Green Footballs links to videos of newspaper publisher Ezra Levant answering for the apparent “crime” of daring to publish political cartoons denigrating Islamic terrorists. Watch the tapes, they’re important. Vanderleun has more: “It is my hope that this matter is not dismissed. I hope I appear in front of the fascist thug on the panel, and I hope she’s having an angry day. I hope that she convicts me and sentences me. “Then I will take this junk out... Read more
First Buster sent us Joe Cocker (linked here). Now he sends…college humor. Read more
First up: Tim Blair has cancer. GM Roper has a moving message for him. Godspeed with the treatment, Tim, hopefully you’ll be back at it very soon. President Bush meets with Kuwaiti women in politics. Consider how unthinkable that sentence would have been a decade ago. And imagine what the press would have made of it, had a Democrat president whose vision had shifted the Middle East, taken this meeting. AJ says Bush has a few more hat-tricks. Three examples... Read more
First up: Tim Blair has cancer. GM Roper has a moving message for him. Godspeed with the treatment, Tim, hopefully you’ll be back at it very soon. President Bush meets with Kuwaiti women in politics. Consider how unthinkable that sentence would have been a decade ago. And imagine what the press would have made of it, had a Democrat president whose vision had shifted the Middle East, taken this meeting. AJ says Bush has a few more hat-tricks. Three examples... Read more
It occurs to me that – in the midst of the silliness, inauthenticity, blame-flinging, manufactured indignation, sly slanders, underhanded moves – and the rest of it aside, we in America are preparing to put into office the most powerful person on the planet. I know, for some that is arguable, for for the purposes of this post, let’s just stipulate that The President of the United States is indeed, the most powerful person on the planet. Between now and November,... Read more
It occurs to me that – in the midst of the silliness, inauthenticity, blame-flinging, manufactured indignation, sly slanders, underhanded moves – and the rest of it aside, we in America are preparing to put into office the most powerful person on the planet. I know, for some that is arguable, for for the purposes of this post, let’s just stipulate that The President of the United States is indeed, the most powerful person on the planet. Between now and November,... Read more
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