Miscellaneous President’s Day musings about stuff going on here (although it’s still a work day for me). Feel free to skip over it if you don’t care: < ul> The snow is falling. The weatherman says up to 24 inches, although my... [Continue Reading]
The young really are the hope of the future. A group of college student Republicans at UCLA tried to illustrate the absurdity and reverse discrimination of affirmative action and ended up proving that liberals are incapable of critical thinking or... [Continue Reading]
“Accused priest was Phoenix educator” - Arizona Republic A friend sends the following in relation to the above story: The edifying stories below (one from yesterday, one from last June) concern a Milwaukee priest named Marvin Knighton... [Continue Reading]
Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, the pope’s envoy to Iraq, issued a statement as he left Baghdad, in which said: As I leave this land unjustly cut off from others, I would like to be more than a simple echo, the amplification of the aspiration of a... [Continue Reading]
Is Saddam “merely” another dictator? Is he misunderstood? Is it really America’s fault his people are suffering? Let’s look at some evidence, shall we? (Links courtesy of Karen of Disordered Affections blog) “Their... [Continue Reading]
Bill Cork responds to my post about criticizing bishops. First, Bill, don’t read anything sinister into my phrase “Some people say.” I just didn’t feel like enumerating the list of bloggers and other pundits (the wide world... [Continue Reading]
An “alternative” newspaper in Phoenix called the Phoenix New Times has launched a virulent anti-Catholic screed centered around the controversial figure of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus. Marcinkus, an American, was known as God’s... [Continue Reading]
I can understand parishioners being grateful for their pastor’s exoneration and return to them after nine months. But when Fr. Ed McDonagh returned to his parish should they have used the Mass in such a way? I can understand celebrating a Mass... [Continue Reading]
From a friend with a very odd sense of humor. Warning: deals with sensitive subjects and some innuendo. Petey the Parrot served twenty-one months Of a rap for indecent exposure. His Bishop paroled him and give him a perch On his pear-wood episcopal... [Continue Reading]
There are some who say that we, lay people, should not criticize bishops. They say that the bishop is a vicar of Christ and it isn’t to up to us, but only for the Pope and other bishops. (That of course ignores the long history of reforms and... [Continue Reading]