The Executive Order, via TPM, is here: EXECUTIVE ORDER (more…) Read more
The Executive Order, via TPM, is here: EXECUTIVE ORDER (more…) Read more
Let’s think this through. Israel has universal health care. Israel has within it, support for abortion (without certain stipulations). Israel’s health care is able to be done because of the huge funding it gets from outside sources, like the United States. Without such monetary aid, it couldn’t afford to have universal health care which also allows for abortion. Does the monetary aid given to Israel count as material support for abortion, because it allows Israel to fund abortions in its... Read more
Yes, Nancy Pelosi isn’t the best representative of Catholicism, and she gets many things wrong. Very, very wrong. Badly wrong. But if people are going to correct her, they should at least know what they are talking about. For example, look to these words from The Anchoress: Her ignorance is almost sublime. “Italian Americans” certainly do honor St. Joseph, but they do not “pray” to him. They ask him to pray for them, before the Throne of his most holy... Read more
The Denver prelate’s latest: “If the defective Senate version of health-care reform pushed by congressional leaders passes into law—against the will of the American people and burdened by serious moral problems in its content—we’ll have “Catholic” voices partly to thank for it. And to hold responsible.” (more…) Read more
About an hour ago, I completed a preliminary draft of my dissertation, “Education, Study, and the Person.” I have posted the final section entitled, “Who Shall We Teach? – Teachers,” here. It is only a draft, and a rough one at that, but hopefully it gets the broad point across to you—if you’re interested. When we see it in its barest form, the art of teaching is the art of existing, the art of becoming a person. To teach requires... Read more
As we go down to the wire…some bits and pieces… (more…) Read more
A particular problem of conscience can arise in cases where a legislative vote would be decisive for the passage of a more restrictive law, aimed at limiting the number of authorized abortions, in place of a more permissive law already passed or ready to be voted on. Such cases are not infrequent. It is a fact that while in some parts of the world there continue to be campaigns to introduce laws favouring abortion, often supported by powerful international organizations,... Read more
Nemo est qui non amet. ~Augustine This Lent, I have tried to locate some of the obstacles to letting love reign in my life. The singular insight I have come to is this: I am the biggest obstacle to love. I am the problem. This may not be a surprise to some of you, but it was to me. You see, as much as I can posture as humble and self-effacing, the truth is that I—and, perhaps, you too—think of myself in fairly glowing... Read more
In opposing the current healthcare bill, Denver’s archbishop makes the following argument: “the health-care reform debate has never been merely a matter of party politics. Nor is it now. Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak and a number of his Democratic colleagues have shown extraordinary character in pushing for good health-care reform while resisting attempts to poison it with abortion-related entitlements and other bad ideas that have nothing to do with real “health care.” Many Republicans share the goal of decent health-care... Read more
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