One of those “just keep scrolling because so much of it is great” days at Happy Catholic. I especially like this true story of a reporter in 1991 Moscow, fearing for his life, and finding surprising affirmation and consolation from the Virgin Mary. When I realized how dangerous the document was, I felt it very likely that I might disappear, or have an “accident.” I even phoned my wife in the States and told her to expect that I might... Read more
Steven ColbertThey don’t have credibility; they just have facts! H/T Hewitt. Read more
I like this piece on the “holy goalie,” Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Paprocki, a Chicago native, started playing hockey at a young age in the basement of his father’s drugstore. “I am the third oldest of nine,” he says. “I have six brothers. There was a long narrow hallway in the basement of the store, and we used it to play floor hockey.” The bishop, now 53, caught the hockey bug as a child from his... Read more
From time to time someone hits the Amazon Honor System button and is gracious and generous enough to leave a donation meant to keep the bandwidth rolling, and does not leave a name by which I can email personal thanks. Whoever you are, please know that I am very grateful to you, and very thankful for your gift, and for all the support. Read more
Jokes are bipartisan, right? Sometimes? The Paint Can A newlywed couple wanted to join a church. The pastor told them, “We have special requirements for new parishioners. You must abstain from sex for one whole month.” The couple agreed and, after two-and-a-half weeks, returned to the Church. When the Pastor ushers them into his office, the wife is crying, and the husband is obviously very depressed. “You are back so soon…Is there a problem?” the pastor inquired. “We are terribly... Read more
Light blogging most of the day due to errands and then a function tonight at Buster’s school, but a few things to think about: A child appears to be coming out of a coma on the eve of a planned pulling of her nutrition. This is going to keep happening, you know. Doctors DON’T know everything, particularly when it comes to the human brain, and the spirit, as well. This child is a minor, could not have declared her intentions... Read more
Hillary Clinton is calling for sanctions against Iran (because THAT’S always so effective against madmen) and is lambasting the Bush administration (what’s new?) for – get this – DOWNPLAYING the threat from Iran. Too funny – my sides are hurting! As if she’d accept or believe anything he could possibly say about Iran, or taxes, or pretty much anything. Had Bush “played up” Iran, she’d be denouncing that, too. Because, you know, Bush is damned if he does and damned... Read more
Ohio Sec’y of State Ken Blackwell sounds like a man who bears watching. Ken Blackwell has so many people worried because he represents a new political calculus with the power to shake up American politics. For Blackwell is a fiscal and cultural conservative, a true heir of the Reagan revolution, who happens to be black, with the proven power to attract votes from across a startlingly wide spectrum of the electorate. Born in the projects of Cincinnati to a meat-packer... Read more
From Daily Pundit: re Honest Al Gore: I still get cold chills when I remember that this blundering, lumbering mugwump of malignant mendacity came within a hanging chad or two of living in the White House. That’s right up there with “nattering nababs of negativism.” Read more
Word is that Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical of his pontificate will be released this Friday, and that it deals with the topic of love, in various forms, and the topic of sex. You know it will be the sex part the world will pay attention to. …(in it the) Pope issues a warning in the document, entitled Deus Caritas Est (God is Love), that eros risks being “degraded to mere sex” if it is not balanced with spiritual or... Read more
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