My li’l brother Thom directed me to this site; he wanted me to enjoy the many political cartoons celebrating JPII, but if you keep scrolling, you’ll see how college students in Poland lighted their dorms upon his death. And then, there is this little gem, which I actually have in my CD rack but had quite forgotten: JPtG singing the Pater Nostre. He begins the song about two minutes or so into it, but the music accompanying his speaking is... Read more
I like Jesuits – my husband was educated by them. I like America Magazine, even though it sometimes irks me when it seems to me to be dancing upon a thin wire of near-dissent. But this story is trying very hard to suggest that the editor of America Magazine, Rev. Reese, is being forced out of his job by the new pope. They can’t quite pull it off, as they are bound to report that the impetus for his resignation... Read more
Hate in your heart will consume you, too…Will Smith, Just the two of us… A fellow blogger who shall remain nameless suggested that Maureen Dowd lost her prime Sunday op-ed journo real estate because of some things I’d written in response to her dopiness, here and here…and, um…well, here. I say no. Whatever has happened to Maureen Dowd has happened to her because she has completely given herself over to her hatred. Hate in your heart will consume you, too,... Read more
More on this subject which seems to be everywhere today. This is from Fr. James V. Schall, SJ: The first consequence would be that anyone with a half a mind will realize that the Church has contradicted its own solemnly sworn and defined principles. In other words, on its own grounds, it is not worth believing. It has rejected its one claim to credibility, that is, its adherence to the stated deposit of faith and the teachings that flowed from... Read more
Down in this thread David Justus wrote a thoughtful commentary, at one point wondering if the negative effects of abortion on the body (I was writing specifically about “chi” or “energy”) would be similar in the case of a miscarriage or spontaneous abortion. Clearly, the energetic (whatever you want to call it) effects on a body would not be the same, because the circumstances are completely different in terms of human body chemistry, and I just wanted to touch briefly... Read more
Ah, and here we are. It was only a few months ago that the MSM told us – with many blaring headlines – that Hillary Clinton – that old paragon of clear-thinking and leadership (tell me, has she ever made a public statement on Terri Schiavo? Don’t bother looking it up, the answer is no) was prancing toward a “more centrist” position on abortion. “She is seeking “common ground” with the pro-lifers!” the msm sighed in starry-eyed-sycophantasia. “Hillary is going... Read more
Margaret Carlson deserves a good fisking for this childish, petulant and immature waste of space, but I haven’t the energy. Writing about the never-ending story of Laura Bush’s appearance at the WH correspondent’s dinner (because the members of the press are both too lazy to find other stories and too stuck in a hate spiral to move on) Carlson kvetches about how horrifically dull the event usually is (I remember no such whining during the Clinton years) and then goes... Read more
I don’t know when I have read a snottier, snobbier, more relentlessly superficial, arrogant and bigoted piece of dreck than Tina Brown’s latest column in the Washington Post, Reverence Gone Up In Smoke. Sigh…what a disappointment for Tina and her pals – amid all of that glorious color and pomp of a papal funeral and a conclave, the solemn beauty of the chant, the whole mystical and mysterious sense of Other – they’d become attracted, mildly so, but attracted, nevertheless,... Read more
Because I am now exactly 24 hours away from needing to be outta here and starting on our long-awaited vacation (it’s been three years since we went to Ireland, a trip chronicled here, by my 15 year old son, Buster) and I’ve never seen a man who needs a vacation more than my husband. Buster is being difficult about it, btw. At 15, he feels he should not have to accompany his parents on a vacation, but since he is... Read more
Surprise! New Pope Benedict XVI was instrumental in revising Catholic Church teachings on death penalty The 1992 Catechism said that governments had the right to inflict penalties in keeping with crimes, including the death penalty, “in cases of extreme gravity.” But it added that if non-lethal methods of punishment “suffice to defend human lives against aggressors and protect public order and the security of people, authorities should use these means, because they better conform to the concrete conditions of the... Read more
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