Monday, June 1, 2009
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Abortionist George Tiller Killed at Church
If there was ever a soul to pray for ...
http://www.kwch.com/global/story.asp?s=10451609
Eyewitness News has confirmed that abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has been shot and killed at his Wichita church. The shooting happened around ten o'clock Sunday morning at the Reformation Lutheran Church.
http://www.kwch.com/global/story.asp?s=10451609
Eyewitness News has confirmed that abortion provider Dr. George Tiller has been shot and killed at his Wichita church. The shooting happened around ten o'clock Sunday morning at the Reformation Lutheran Church.
Monday, May 25, 2009
What's Wrong With God the Father?
Yet another amalgamation of modern heretics has been formed, this time in posh Barrington, Illinois. Called the American Catholic Council, it has discovered the need for a new creed. Apparently the older ones do not suffice or sufficiently reflect the Spirit of Vatican II. The first line of the creed demonstrates how heresy often strikes at the root, seeking to redefine fundamental beliefs:
"We believe in one God, our Lord, in the Holy Spirit, and in Jesus Christ, the Son of God."
They say it is from Gaudium et spes, the Pastoral Constitution of the Church on the Modern World, but it does not appear there.
"We believe in one God, our Lord, in the Holy Spirit, and in Jesus Christ, the Son of God."
They say it is from Gaudium et spes, the Pastoral Constitution of the Church on the Modern World, but it does not appear there.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Sinfully SNAP Judgment
St. Louis Catholic has a few posts related to the closure of a private Catholic high school. At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where a story on the closure appeared today, David Clohessy of SNAP makes a few accusations with no backup whatsoever. This is typical ... it's a way SNAP has of fishing for reactions.
It is also unconscionable. It is detraction and it borders on libel. Unfortunately, the Post-Dispatch, like most newspapers, does not moderate comments posted on its Web site.
I have children at the school and we know the priests there very well. It's long past time for Clohessy to put up ...or shut up.
It is also unconscionable. It is detraction and it borders on libel. Unfortunately, the Post-Dispatch, like most newspapers, does not moderate comments posted on its Web site.
I have children at the school and we know the priests there very well. It's long past time for Clohessy to put up ...or shut up.
Belated Reflection on Jack Bauer's Deathbed
When the latest season of 24 ended a few days ago, I confesss I felt exactly like Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review. When a Muslim imam comes off sounding like a modernist Catholic, we don't need to worry too much about them.
(The imam tells a dying Jack Bauer: "We live in complex times... nothing is black and white. But I do know this: I see before me a man, with all his flaws and all his goodness... simply a man. Let us both forgive ourselves for all of the wrongs we have done.")
I laughed at the quote immediately on hearing it as the season's final episode drew to a close. And it reminded me of Waugh's anecdote in his biography of Ronald Knox, about a priest's attempt to become a chaplain during World War I:
The application was refused on the grounds, it was said, that in his interview with the Chaplain-General he was asked what he would do for a dying man, and answered: 'Hear his confession and give him absolution.' The correct answer was: 'Give him a cigarette and take any last message he may have for his family.'
Dying men need to hear the truth, and if anyone can handle the truth, it's Jack Bauer. He doesn't need a sissy imam to make him feel good about forgiving himself.
At least they didn't hug.
(The imam tells a dying Jack Bauer: "We live in complex times... nothing is black and white. But I do know this: I see before me a man, with all his flaws and all his goodness... simply a man. Let us both forgive ourselves for all of the wrongs we have done.")
I laughed at the quote immediately on hearing it as the season's final episode drew to a close. And it reminded me of Waugh's anecdote in his biography of Ronald Knox, about a priest's attempt to become a chaplain during World War I:
The application was refused on the grounds, it was said, that in his interview with the Chaplain-General he was asked what he would do for a dying man, and answered: 'Hear his confession and give him absolution.' The correct answer was: 'Give him a cigarette and take any last message he may have for his family.'
Dying men need to hear the truth, and if anyone can handle the truth, it's Jack Bauer. He doesn't need a sissy imam to make him feel good about forgiving himself.
At least they didn't hug.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Depressing Academic Semantics
In our local Catholic paper, this correction was posted:
Correction
In the May 15 Vacation and Mass Guide supplement of the St. Louis Review, Ave Maria University in Florida was incorrectly identified as a Catholic university. Ave Maria University, which is seeking recognition from the bishop of the Diocese of Venice, Fla., is a university in the Catholic tradition.
I'm sure there is some legal reason for this, but I always thought Ave Maria was a little more Catholic than, say, some other "Catholic" universities.
Correction
In the May 15 Vacation and Mass Guide supplement of the St. Louis Review, Ave Maria University in Florida was incorrectly identified as a Catholic university. Ave Maria University, which is seeking recognition from the bishop of the Diocese of Venice, Fla., is a university in the Catholic tradition.
I'm sure there is some legal reason for this, but I always thought Ave Maria was a little more Catholic than, say, some other "Catholic" universities.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
City of Francis, City of Sorrows
My absence of late from these pages has been due to a family trip to Northern California, where I was fortunate to have some airplane time to read Chesterton's life of St. Francis of Assisi and visit some Franciscan landmarks in the city named for him.
A quote from the book stood out (among many I marked as the plane whisked me westward):
What had happened to the human imagination, as a whole, was that the whole world was coloured by dangerous and rapidly deteriorating passions; by natural passions becoming unnatural passions. Thus the effect of treating sex as only one innocent natural thing was that every other innocent natural thing became soaked and soddened with sex.
Thus, the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, shown above, sits next to a strip joint. Thus, the mission founded by Franciscans and named after its order's founder is called Mission Dolores -- not after some woman named Dolores, but after Our Lady of Sorrows.
Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
St. Francis of Assisi, pray for your city.
A quote from the book stood out (among many I marked as the plane whisked me westward):
What had happened to the human imagination, as a whole, was that the whole world was coloured by dangerous and rapidly deteriorating passions; by natural passions becoming unnatural passions. Thus the effect of treating sex as only one innocent natural thing was that every other innocent natural thing became soaked and soddened with sex.
Thus, the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, shown above, sits next to a strip joint. Thus, the mission founded by Franciscans and named after its order's founder is called Mission Dolores -- not after some woman named Dolores, but after Our Lady of Sorrows.
Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
St. Francis of Assisi, pray for your city.
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