Turning Point: Election Night 2008
I work at home, so I got to go to vote at a non-busy time, right after lunch, around 1 p.m. The polling place, a school, was only 3 blocks from my apartment. I live in the Bronx, and my … Continue...
View ArticleFighting for Life in our Laws
It’s been going around all the blogs and comboxes, not to mention actual conversations in everyday life. What do we do now? During the campaign, some Catholics who were calling themselves pro-life were...
View ArticleSo you thought Obama wanted to take ideology out of science. . .
Well, this should open your eyes. Everyone knows by now that President Obama has signed an executive order for federal funding for the harvesting of unborn children for parts (otherwise known as...
View ArticleThis Explains a Lot
This article came out several days ago, and hasn’t received much attention in all the furor. Father Jenkins has a lot of explaining to do, but he’s not the only one. No Likely Support From Notre Dame’s...
View ArticleMore Clarification from L’Osservatore Romano
From a June 5 (unsigned) notice in L’Osservatore Romano, posted June 6, by John Thavis of the Catholic News Service (CNS blog): Obviously the Holy See and L’Osservatore Romano have been, are and will...
View ArticleThe Talkers and the Doers
Rocco at Whispers in the Loggia has some great stuff about the pilgrimage to Rome for Fr. Damien’s canonization tomorrow. Damien de Veuster was the Belgian priest who gave his life to the people of the...
View ArticleBiggest Catholic Stories of 2009
Looking back over the posts I’ve done this year, I think I made some hits and misses in reporting on the biggest stories of the 2009 in regard to events in the Catholic Church. But I think I got the …...
View ArticleThe Cardinal at the Convention
I can’t help thinking, now that the dust has settled after the last tumultuous couple of weeks, that Cardinal Dolan has pulled off a coup of some kind. He invited Obama to dinner (and according to...
View ArticleSigns of Hope
It seems like ages since I’ve posted. The world seems to have turned a corner in these last weeks from which there may be no return. After all the exhaustion of the campaign, there was the drawn-out...
View ArticlePope Trumps the Donald
The press, TV, internet, Facebook and Twitter are all abuzz today. Yes, Pope Francis just gave another press conference. But did he really say that about Donald Trump? Here’s what the Pope said: Here’s...
View ArticleThe Pelicans – and Why I’m Now One of Them
I’ve never been an elephant, I’m going to stop being a donkey – and I’m now a pelican. Have you guessed what I’m talking about yet? I wrote the above to ease into this subject, because I know most...
View ArticleMeet The American Solidarity Party Candidate for Governor of California
I have had little time for blogging recently, and have not said much lately about the American Solidarity Party. But I couldn’t pass up sharing this wonderful news: Desmond Silveira, one of the top...
View ArticleGun Control and the Consistent Ethic of Life
I have written very little about politics this whole last year. Largely because there is little room inside me now for anything but anger and disgust. The freak show our country has become under Trump...
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