Archbishop Charles Chaput (Denver) with a couple of thoughts about the meaning of 'truth' ,'freedom' and 'democracy':
http://www.archden.org/dcr//news.php?e=459&s=2&a=9666
2/23/08
Good News For India....
Columnist David Warren (PTBC) updates us on the cost of the Group of Eight's target for CO2 reduction:
"...a couple of techies at the Tokyo Institute of Technology .....sat down with their calculators, and coolly worked out what will be required to meet this goal, on an equal per capita basis, around the planet... "
The 'New' Atheists
Mark P. Shea at Inside Catholic writes an excellent summary of 'new atheist' reasoning (?): http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2546&pop=1&page=2&Itemid=121
TRUTH and TOLERANCE
Donald DeMarco on post-Christian 'tolerance':
"In today’s post-modern world, the notion that truth leads to freedom is regarded as narrowly Catholic and intolerant of other religious views. The new blueprint in the post-modern world is that tolerance, not truth, leads to freedom."
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0266.htm
"In today’s post-modern world, the notion that truth leads to freedom is regarded as narrowly Catholic and intolerant of other religious views. The new blueprint in the post-modern world is that tolerance, not truth, leads to freedom."
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0266.htm
2/22/08
2/20/08
Farewell Fidel
“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”
(John Derbyshire)
2/19/08
FAITH & POLITICS
The Canadian journal "C2C" has put out its third e-issue, with a very well done article discussing the relationship between religion and politics, written by John von Heyking.
http://www.c2cjournal.ca/public/articles/36
http://www.c2cjournal.ca/public/articles/36
2/14/08
HAPPY VALENTINE"S
To My Valentine
by Ogden Nash
by Ogden Nash
More than a catbird hates a cat,
Or a criminal hates a clue,
Or the Axis hates the United States,
That's how much I love you.
I love you more than a duck can swim,
And more than a grapefruit squirts,
I love you more than gin rummy is a bore,
And more than a toothache hurts.
As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
Or a juggler hates a shove,
As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
That's how much you I love.
I love you more than a wasp can sting,
And more than the subway jerks,
I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch,
And more than a hangnail irks.
I swear to you by the stars above,
And below, if such there be,
As the High Court loathes perjurious oaths,
That's how you're loved by me.
Bad Medicine
When does ideology interfere with the 'good' of science and medicine? When it is not guided by the ethics of a well formed conscience.
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0115.htm
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0115.htm
2/11/08
What Is Drudgery?
While re-reading the book "Holiness for Housewives"by Dom Hubert van Zeller, I was reminded of an excellent G.K.Chesterton quote from the chapter ' The Emancipation of Domesticity' in his book "What's Wrong with the World."
"...I cannot, with the utmost energy of imagination, conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery...the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If 'drudgery' only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home - as a man might drudge at the Cathedral of Amiens or drudge behind a gun at Trafalgar. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colourless and of small import to the soul, then, as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean. To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, books, cakes, and boots; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene, I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious; but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness."
2/10/08
LENTEN LEVITY
IMPORTANT RECALL NOTICE:The Maker of all human beings is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to the serious defect in the primary and central component of the heart. This is due to a malfunction in the original prototype units code named Adam and Eve, resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in all subsequent units. This defect has been technically termed, "Subsequential Internal Non-Morality", or more commonly known as SIN, as it is primarily expressed.
Some possible symptoms of this SIN defect include: a) Pride, b) Greed, c) Envy, d) Wrath, e) Lust, f) Gluttony and g) Sloth.
The Manufacturer, who is neither liable nor at fault for this defect, is providing factory authorized repair and service free of charge to correct this SIN defect. The Repair Technician, Jesus, has most generously offered to bear the entire burden of the staggering cost of these repairs. There is no additional fee required!
The toll-free number to call is: C-O-N-F-E-S-S-I-O-N. Once connected, please upload your burden of SIN through the REPENTANCE procedure. Next, download GRACE from the Repair Tech, Jesus, into the heart component No matter how big or small the SIN defect is, Jesus (using the GRACE component) will help you to replace the SIN defect with: a) Faith, b) Hope, c) Love, d) Prudence, e) Justice, f) Temperance and g) Fortitude. Please see the operating manual, HOLY BIBLE, for further details on the use of these fixes.
As an added upgrade, the manufacturer has made available to all repaired units a facility enabling direct monitoring and assistance from a resident Maintenance Technician, the Holy Spirit. The resident Maintenance Technician will also introduce many improvements into the Repaired Units. Repaired Units need only make Him welcome, and He will take up permanent residence on the premises!
WARNING: Continuing to operate the human being unit without correction voids the Manufacturer's warranty, exposing the unit to dangers and problems too numerous to list. The human being units not responding to this recall action will have to be scrapped in the furnace because SIN defect cannot be permitted to enter Heaven - so as to prevent contamination of that facility. Thank you for your attention. Please assist where possible by notifying others of this important recall.
(printed in today's bulletin, St. Ignatius Parish, Grand Cayman....I'm pretty sure it's off the internet!)
World Marriage Day
World Marriage Day, the very existance of which begs the question 'why '?
Why is it necessary to acknowledge as good and beneficial to us all, something that until so recently was universally accepted as such?
2/8/08
DOCTORS OF DEATH
This is Canada's future..(even the name is typically Canadian!) a N.I.C.E. committee to decide who lives and dies, based not on the intrinsic value of being human ( who really believes THAT!) but on the 'cost-per-quality-adjusted-lifeyears-gained'. Too bad the same people who see no value in being human, are evaluating 'quality'. Canada is literally ONE STEP behind this kind of 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' . (See previous stories about Canadian doctors fighting for the right to kill'. ) If reasoning minds don't step in and shut down the progress of the 'Culture of Death' , we (CANADIANS) will be at the forefront of killing our elderly, ill and disabled - just as we are at the forefront of killing our unborn. Our Canadian Medical Assoc. is actively seeking physician rights to eugenics. WAKE UP! - before YOUR family member, YOUR loved one- is the one being 'put down' by his doctor. It's ugly, it's true and it's CANADIAN through and through. At least with private health options, you can stay alive if you choose! (...'but we shouldn't allow SOME to choose! the doctors and the state must retain all control! - I mean, it wouldn't be fair...) |
CMA = Canadian Murder Association (Think twice before going to hospital...)
CHOOSE A LIFE DOCTOR - OR NO DOCTOR (not hard to have NO doctor in Canada, is it?)
2/5/08
UNREAL - Baroness Meacher (the undead)
('Bethlehem ' children or Baroness Meacher....who is human?)A story from LifeSite News really made my stomach turn. We are so close to being exactly where the German 'scientists' were during WWll. I can't express how much I was repulsed by this 'woman'. To count her as human is an effort. A human being can recognize humanity, surely! Baroness Meacher's problem is this - she quite simply IS NOT human! Her reaction is that of someone who has repressed her humanity to the point where it has disappeared! Vanished! I have just returned from a visit to the Missionaries of the Poor in Jamaica. I spent some time with the children in their orphanage nursery 'Bethlehem'. All of these children were severely handicapped, several with hydrocephalus. My reaction was not the same as the Baroness'! They seemed to me to be the perfect living proof of the absolute crime and travesty of abortion! As I fed and changed them, tried to communicate and share a presence with them, I realized that the presence we shared was that of Christ. I could see the joy of Christ's Passion in each of these children. The life-giving acceptance of suffering . Ms. Meachem did not recognize the benefit of these children livng a life of suffering. The benefit is hers! They are participating in the redemption of the world, to her benefit, and she would kill them outright! They also afford us the rare opportunity to love without expectation. This is very important to our humanity. The more we are able to love AND ACCEPT LOVE - the more fully human, the more in the image of our Creator- we become. The children are givers and takers of love. They are human. The Baroness does not believe in her own humanity, and therefore cannot recognize the children's. She has abandoned her soul. She is not human. |
2/4/08
Ethics and Spina Bifida
Wesley Smith reports on a REAL DOCTOR who speaks up against the practice of neglecting newborn infants with spina bifida.
1/30/08
Catholics Voting
Archbishop Chaput points out 10 things to remember on the way to November....
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0190.htm
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0190.htm
1/29/08
REAL DOCTORS
CANADA - The Only 'Civilized' Country Without Restrictions
By Will Johnston, President Physicians for Life
By Will Johnston, President Physicians for Life OTTAWA, January 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Since the Supreme Court's Morgentaler decision in 1988, Canada remains the only civilized country in the world with no legal restraint on abortion.Abortion advocates in and out of the medical profession continue to falsely claim a consensus on this open practice, yet polls repeatedly show that 2/3 of Canadians want some legal protection for the unborn child; the Morgentaler justices themselves stated the state's interest in this goal.As physicians, we see how our justice system lags behind science: - there is no medical indication for abortion;- there is no biological difference between a "wanted" and an "unwanted" child in the womb;- a fetus born prematurely at 24 weeks becomes a "baby" with the full protection of Canadian law, while a fetus 4 months older, still in the womb at full term, has no legal rights at all;- genocide against female babies in the womb, with ultrasound and abortion as the weapons, are a reality in certain cultures in Canada, yet cannot be questioned (unless hypocritically) by an uncompromising pro-choice ideology.Abortion is not only fatal for the unborn child, but dangerous for the pregnant woman who makes this choice. The only true choice is an informed choice, yet we question the validity of a woman's informed consent for abortion when its advocates deny or attempt to cover up the true complication rate.
An independent Ontario study revealed that in the first 3 months after abortion, a woman falls victim to:* a 4-times rate of hospitalization for infection* a 5-times rate of hospitalization for another surgical procedure* a 5-times rate of hospitalization for psychiatric care, in a health care system when only the most dire psychological cases can get a hospital bed.The world literature is replete with the reported increased risk of infertility, breast cancer, and subsequent premature delivery and its associated higher rate of cerebral palsy after an earlier abortion.Abortion advocates are frustrated by the dearth of new young physicians willing to perform abortions. They are organizing radical new plans to indoctrinate medical school curricula with their agenda, and defy any alternate voice. Most sinister of all, they cry out to punish doctors of conscience who resist plans to force them to be part of the abortion referral network. They cannot accept the real reason why most doctors do not go into abortion: very few young, intelligent and caring medical students go into the wonderful field of medicine to kill.Has it all gone too far?We see another pressing social need that rarely commands much media attention: the long, heartbreaking lineup of couples who want to adopt a newborn baby. When the adoption option is considered, there need be no such thing as an "unwanted" child, and therefore no need for abortion. That is a society we'd like to see, and care for.
An independent Ontario study revealed that in the first 3 months after abortion, a woman falls victim to:* a 4-times rate of hospitalization for infection* a 5-times rate of hospitalization for another surgical procedure* a 5-times rate of hospitalization for psychiatric care, in a health care system when only the most dire psychological cases can get a hospital bed.The world literature is replete with the reported increased risk of infertility, breast cancer, and subsequent premature delivery and its associated higher rate of cerebral palsy after an earlier abortion.Abortion advocates are frustrated by the dearth of new young physicians willing to perform abortions. They are organizing radical new plans to indoctrinate medical school curricula with their agenda, and defy any alternate voice. Most sinister of all, they cry out to punish doctors of conscience who resist plans to force them to be part of the abortion referral network. They cannot accept the real reason why most doctors do not go into abortion: very few young, intelligent and caring medical students go into the wonderful field of medicine to kill.Has it all gone too far?We see another pressing social need that rarely commands much media attention: the long, heartbreaking lineup of couples who want to adopt a newborn baby. When the adoption option is considered, there need be no such thing as an "unwanted" child, and therefore no need for abortion. That is a society we'd like to see, and care for.
Can Canada do better? Twenty years after Morgentaler, we think so.
1/28/08
MORE Steyn On Warman
Mark Steyn on Richard Warman's latest exhibition of near maniacal fascist vitriol:http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/924/128/
PARLIAMENT OPENS TOMORROW
Parliament gets going again tomorrow. Conservative MP Ken Epp (Edmonton-Sherwood Park) will put forward a private members bill this session.
C-484 , in summary:
"This enactment amends the Criminal Code by making it an offence to injure, cause the death of or attempt to cause the death of a child before or during its birth while committing or attempting to commit an offence against the mother."
Good on him!
1/27/08
WHAT IS HUMAN?
VOTING - What Ratzinger Said
“A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate’s permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate’s stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.”
Jimmy Akin does an excellent job of explaining the fullness of what this means:http://www.jimmyakin.org/2004/09/what_ratzinger_.html
If you're Catholic and you're voting, YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS!
Quote of the Day
"People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as some thing heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. "
(G.K.Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
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