Oct
29
Health care reform: necessities versus rights
October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Health care is not a “right”, it is a necessity like clean water, food, clothing and shelter. Rights include such things as the right to be paid for one’s work, yet there are those who presume to be Catholic, such as the late Senator Ted Kennedy, that believe health care should be given freely as [...]
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 [...]
Jun
14
Knocked Up: Contessa Brewer is a disgrace to women
June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Recent exchange between Contessa Brewer and John Ziegler was disturbing in more ways than one, most disturbing was Contessa Brewer’s apparent lack of moral compass. Her attitude towards the shamelessly perverse “joke” told by Comedian so-called David Letterman about Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter being “knocked up” by baseball player Alex Rodriguez. As disgusting and repugnant [...]
Jun
2
Holiness: Catholic and Sacred
June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Holiness: we are thus commanded to be Holy, but what does it mean?
Saint Athanasius wrote: ”For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: ”The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.” CCC 460
This is [...]
May
31
Kansas Abortion Doctor Murdered in Church
May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions, was shot to death on Sunday as he attended church, city officials in Wichita said. HT Catholic Edition
This is a disgrace.
This type of action will only harm the [...]
May
17
“Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature”
President Barack Obama
Notre Dame Commencement Address
17 May 2009
May
16
Make no mistake, the commencement speech at Notre Dame and reception of degree Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa by President Barack Obama is a calculated move to further divide the Catholic Church in America and thus secure the Catholic left to further the agenda of the Democratic Party. The Fabian socialist agenda of the Democratic [...]
May
11
Theology of the Body: kenosis transcends eros.
May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
ABC Nightline interviewed Christopher West. I must say despite the inaccuracies in ABC’s understanding of TOB, Christopher West has some grave misunderstandings of TOB as well.
Christopher West confuses the eros of natural physicality with the kenosis demanded of husbands in Christian marriage. The husband’s giving is meant to be of more than himself in sexual [...]
Apr
1
Haiku for Bishop Williamson
April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
Raging press scandal
“Bishop flees Argentina!”
A prayer in the wind
Mar
22
Courage and Condoms
March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Sometimes courage as a Catholic requires one to speak truth even when it risks social disapprobation of one’s fellows. One issue is about the Pope’s recent statements about condoms: The full substance of which never made it into the press but was distilled into bite sized headlines like “Pope condemns condom use in Africa.”
As a [...]
