Sep
20
Health care reform and Catholic social teaching
September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
Now certain prominent Bishops in the USA have weighed in on Health Care Reform, that national debate which appears to be producing more heat than light, a phenomenon that in physics this would result in thermodynamic death- but the economy of human politics is not tied to thermodynamics, is it?
What matters here is that the [...]
Sep
19
Catholic liberalism as cultural imperialism
September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Too often I read young Catholic authors waxing indignant about “racism” and oppression of the poor: Young intellectuals who themselves are often (not always) neither poor nor of color. These are often theology students who are not in seminary – what ever happened to learning a trade or aspiring to become a “Marine Biologist”? Anyway, [...]
Sep
7
Lobos en vestido como carnero
September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Pienso que las fuerzas diabolicas estan trabajando sin cesar en unas sillas del poder en la Santa Iglesia, Cardenales que abrazan el pecho de Jesus pero por 30 piezas de plata de los manos poderosos de los politicos ellos olvidare el Evangel de Jesucristo- como en Boston, Los Angeles. Oremos por un Pastor para luchar [...]
Sep
5
Health reform: Kennedy brain cancer, funerals, and change
September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
Senator Ted Kennedy – he died of brain cancer – glioblastoma multiforme – a cancer for which there is no cure, for which the 5 year survival is 3%, with median survival at 15 months even with surgery, chemo and radiation. The treatments are expensive and 50 percent of those treated will be dead within [...]