I love this. The Philosodude is taking umbrage at the way the progressives like to call everything about John Paul the Great into question, while giving the Dalai Lama a pass on the same issues (abortion, celibacy, obedience). This means no disrespect to the Dalai Lama – why would I disrespect him? I like him a lot! “I am just a monk,” he says – just as JPII would always say, “I am a priest, first.” But I’ve said it... Read more
Got that? Dirty Harry points us to this staggering little bit of legislation: Pro-abortion forces won a victory in the Illinois House Wednesday as State Rep. Rosemary Mulligan (R-Park Ridge) successfully passed HB 2492 which would make it a criminal offense for an ultrasound to be administered without a doctor’s order. Mulligan said that Planned Parenthood and the Illinois State Medical Society encouraged her to sponsor the legislation because there was a concern about long exposure of fetuses to ultrasound... Read more
A very good article sent my way by my dear little brother, Thom, who is the most truly CENTRIST person I know, always fair. Anyway – here are women who knew John Paul the Great, and who advanced in their work because of him, speaking about the changes he has wrought: “If you knock the issue of ordination off the table, women have advanced significantly,” even at the Vatican, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic... Read more
Instapundit has a “scroll-down-to-read-it” roundup of what he is calling Revisionist History. You know, the old, “Bush never said ‘nuthin’ ’bout liberating the Iraqi’s until he couldn’t find the WMD” meme. Sez Prof. Reynolds: Hmm. Must’ve missed the 2003 State of the Union address, where Bush said: Different threats require different strategies. In Iran we continue to see a government that represses its people, pursues weapons of mass destruction and supports terror. We also see Iranian citizens risking intimidation and... Read more
I should have anticipated it, of course. When we spent time in the ER the other day, I should have realized that there would likely be an opportunistic bug somewhere on the premises, which meant that – of course – we’d be spending time at the doctor’s today, because Buster gets absolutely everything he is exposed to. Yes. He’s 6′ 1″, 200 lbs of brawn, and he’s as delicate as Camille. Sneeze on him and you take him out. Cough... Read more
The more I read Carol Iannone’s writing, the more I like it, and I like her ruminations on Rembrandt’s Portrait of Christ. I like this passage, in particular: There is no halo of course, no artificial glow, no effeminate aspect, no gushing compassion, no indiscriminate forgiveness pouring forth in unconditional love. This was not the Jesus who, as one Episcopal bishop insisted, accepts us even in our “fat slobby selves.” This Jesus is rather more challenging than comforting. This is... Read more
Okay, it might be time to say it. I have been resisting writing about this, because it seemed too soon, but the Holy Spirit likes to haul me out of bed at strange hours and make me write stuff, and such is the case, this time – or it was, when I started this in the wee small hours. My own judgement says, don’t do it just now. And yet, here I am, writing it. The thing is, something is... Read more
Well, I just watched the Trey’s excerpt tape of Hillary’s speech in Minnesota and I still don’t get it. I have never understood her appeal, and I never will. I understood BILL’s appeal. But hers, I just don’t get. Radioblogger does an ambitious fisking of the speech and decides that in the end, just as George H. W. Bush was defeated in 1992 because (among other things) he reminded every woman of her first husband (I forget who said that... Read more
I’m setting up my blogroll right now (yeah, yeah, I know, I know the header is crooked and doesn’t quite fit the page! I’m WORKING ON IT!!! Gimmee a break!) Anyway, I’m setting up with blogroll or whatever, and so I’m peeking in at all your sites…and I shouldn’t be because it’s slowing me down (even though on most days I DO try to visit all of you, anyway…that’s not always possible, though) and I’m reading things that are just... Read more
Charlotte Allen at the Independent Women’s Forum has an excellent piece up, detailing what happened to one woman who – via a sonorgram – learned that her daughter would be born profoundly disabled, and opted to give birth to and love her daughter for as long as she lived. The whole story is from a feature in the Wapo Magazine and it’s well-worth reading. For all that feminists and others insist that abortion is a “choice,” it seems when a... Read more
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