Mike Huckabee and the distinction between State and country

Last updated on: November 21, 2007 at 3:57 pm By Policraticus

Long before the burgeoning hype around presidential candidate Mike Huckabee among Catholic bloggers, I expressed early, provisional support for his candidacy. Friendly on immigration, supportive of the right to bear arms, staunchly apposed to abortion, in favor of government aid for prescription drugs for the elderly, experience in a centralized political position. However, in light of the more recent months during which he has remained ambivalent on torture, defensive of the Iraq War both in its commencement and in its... Read more

Interpreting Texts

Last updated on: November 21, 2007 at 2:49 pm By voxnovablog

Anyone who has an office job or a terrible boss can always relate to Dilbert’s comic strips. However, this one hit close to home as a blogger because of how some of my posts are read 🙂 I know every blogger or “comboxer” can relate! Read more

Denying Claims

Last updated on: November 20, 2007 at 7:45 pm By Morning's Minion

Gerald from the Not-So-Closed Cafeteria is having problems with the American health care system. Specifically, his insurance company is denying him dental coverage because it is a pre-existing condition. Welcome, Gerald, to the reality of American health care! Maybe now he will take the claims in Sicko seriously where employees of insurance companies explain how they are rewarded based on how many claims they can get away with denying. He seems to be well on the way to an awakening, noting... Read more

Stem Cell Breakthrough?

Last updated on: November 20, 2007 at 5:09 pm By Morning's Minion

My knowledge of these issues is sorely lacking to say the least (which is one reason why I don’t talk much about it), but this seems promising at first glance: “Researchers in Wisconsin and Japan have turned ordinary human skin cells into what are effectively embryonic stem cells without using embryos or women’s eggs… The unencumbered ability to turn adult cells into embryonic ones capable of morphing into virtually every kind of cell or tissue, described in two scientific journal... Read more

Missed Opportunity

Last updated on: November 20, 2007 at 4:26 pm By Radical Catholic Mom

On Sunday my prayer group threw a huge fund-raising buffet style dinner after each Mass. The price was $10 a plate and on a cold, snowy Sunday people jammed downstairs to enjoy the food. My job was to serve the food to the people as they walked down the buffet line. At one point, I looked up and I saw a bum sitting at the table closest to me. He had a blank look on his face, but he was... Read more

“Her Dark Night”: John O’Callaghan on Mother Teresa

Last updated on: November 20, 2007 at 4:14 pm By rgarnett

Here is a nice Commonweal essay by my friend, Notre Dame philosopher John O’Callaghan, called “Her Dark Night.” A bit: The media was agog that Mother Teresa suffered fifty years of anguish. Time, NPR, and other middlebrow oracles reported solemnly, but with great fascination, that Mother Teresa had a fifty-year spiritual drought during which God seemed to be absent. In the view of at least some observers, she was a closet atheist persevering in good works despite the fact that... Read more

Sacrifices, Solidarity and Moderation on Thanksgiving Day

Last updated on: November 20, 2007 at 3:27 pm By voxnovablog

I heard this morning on the TODAY Show that an average Thanksgiving meal contains 5,000 calories and I wondered if we have missed the point of the holiday when we just look forward to stuffing ourselves to the point that we can’t walk. Thanksgiving Day is a holiday that my family and I adopted a couple of years before we moved to the U.S.. Now we celebrate it every year with the turkey and everything else. It is a day... Read more

Separation of Church and State

Last updated on: November 20, 2007 at 2:01 pm By Henry Karlson

The debate and issues surrounding the recent closure of the cathedral in Mexico City reminds me of what the separation of Church and state is really about: the state is seen as the ultimate, final authority and only reluctantly gives its people a sense of religious freedom, but a freedom which can be taken away at any time. (more…) Read more

25,000 protest the SOA/WHINSEC and U.S. policy

Last updated on: November 19, 2007 at 6:59 pm By Iafrate Michael

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The annual protest at Ft. Benning in Georgia to close the SOA/WHINSEC continues to grow. This past weekend, 25,000 protesters, including Catholic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, made the trip to Georgia. Read reports here and here. The presidential candidates’ positions on the School of the Americas can be found here. Read more