I was pleasantly surprised to find myself agreeing, for a few short moments, with part of Mo Dowd’s Sunday column which concerns the film Million Dollar Baby, and the conservative reaction to the subject matter of the movie: euthanasia or (in the new, acceptable parlance of those who have a euphemism for everything) “assisted death.” I could agree with her that the conservatives should not be reacting so heavily against it. Eventually, of course, Dowd lost her train of thought... Read more
Frank Rich is a prejudiced boob of staggering proportions. Mickey Kaus, while no boob, doesn’t quite have his finger on it, either, although the objections his “non-evangelical, non-moralistic dads who were uniformly horrified” by the goings on at last years Super Bowl Halftime Show…are quite legitimate, and have the added benefit of being politically correct. People were not offended by Janet Jackson’s nipple because they’re joyless prudes and simpletons, no matter how much the “tolerant and enlightened” types at the... Read more
It always struck me as strange that in the early days of the Iraq war, when the embeds were filing remarkable stories, we lost the two (to my way of thinking) best journalists covering the war, the great Michael Kelly and the would-have-been-great David Bloom. And they both happened to be practicing Catholics. That struck me as strange only because it’s a profession with some, but not too many practicing Christians of any denomination, and we sure couldn’t afford to... Read more
Two of my friends got pregnant while on the pill. This lady in the UK did, too, and now she is pregnant with quadruplets and she seems sensible of the blessing. If God wants to bless you with children, He’s gonna bless you with children, no matter what birth control you’re using. You can accept it with open arms, or reject it. But really, I don’t know anyone in the world who can afford to reject a blessing. Not really.... Read more
Egad. I’m not going to say much about the speech because 30,000 bloggers are talking about it. I’ll just say it gave me goosebumps in some parts – particularly when he looked directly into the camera and said to Iran: if you go for it, we’re with you. And when he talked of the troops, “often taking great risks on my orders…” And of course, that hug. My husband is watching the replay on C-Span and it seems to me... Read more
Somehow, I don’t think I was the only one who, seeing the wonderful, almost eerie pictures of the dove who would not leave John Paul alone, considered that it might be a sign that this transparently holy man would be soon called to heaven. I have thought for a long time that he would be with us until some important event took place, that through all of his illness and suffering, there was a reason he was still alive. Could... Read more
Jim Geraghty at TKS has the most comprehensive report yet on a story I’ve read about – disjointedly – all over the internet today. Apparently Eason Jordan, yakking away at the Davos conference, went a bit too far…so far that even Barney Frank was having none of it. And yes, this is the same Eason Jordan who, yakking again, claimed that while with CNN he had witnessed atrocities in Iraq which went unreported, so that CNN could stay in Baghdad.... Read more
For Catholics, we celebrate 2005 as the Year of the Eucharist and if you’re lucky enough to live within driving distance of a weekly, or monthly, or daily opportunity to take part in Eucharistic Adoration, I hope you’ll really try to take advantage of it. It is a custom which is, it seems, making a nice little comeback which is particularly nice to read this year. I recall Adoration as a child, and it was by stumbling into a parish... Read more
Our friend over at Mystery Achievement has a picture that you really must see. It speaks volumes about the joy the Iraqi people are taking as they exercise their right to vote – a right taken for granted by too many in this country, a right too frequently perverted, as we have seen in Wisconsin and Washington State, and elsewhere. The face of freedom. What joy! You cannot look at that face and believe that any of our troops died... Read more
The Seventh Sign is not a very good movie but one scene has always stayed with me. Demi Moore, pregnant with the babe that could possibly be the Second Coming is in hard labor and things are tense…someone is going to have to die, and the doctor asks her, “will you die for him? Will you die for him?” Moore answers yes, and the babe is born with a good strong, healthy sounding wail, while she dies. I remembered that... Read more
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