Month December 2008
Today is Wednesday December 10, 2008. It is also “Day Without A Gay.” Homosexuals all over the country will be calling in sick to create awareness of what life is like without the gay. Well, I got to thinkin’. What… Continue Reading →
I know a Jesuit who argues with me that priests should be able to marry. Needless to say we argue a lot. He also voted for Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. Like I said we argue a lot. So I called… Continue Reading →
Fr. Barron on Kerry Kennedy’s “Being Catholic Now”—Cafeteria Catholicism takes a hit. Prayer Request for Fr. Nuehaus—Diagnosis of cancer for the one of the great converts of the past century. The Thought That Counts—Men are from Mars, Women are from… Continue Reading →
The great Fr. Richard John Neuhaus has inspired so many over the years. CMR requests prayers for him as he’s been diagnosed with cancer. Fr. Neuhaus wrote this personal note on “First Things” today: I cannot begin to respond to… Continue Reading →
Pilgrims attending Sydney’s World Youth Day really were downright angelic, says the Epoch Times. Researchers studying emergency inpatient records at Sydney’s hospitals over the five-day event in July described the pilgrims’ low rate of serious hospitalisations as “exemplary”. In fact,… Continue Reading →
Each year when Christmas rolls around, I try to find my wife the perfect gift. This year it is a lock, in the bag, guaranteed. A home run. In previous years I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to… Continue Reading →
Dictionary Removes Christian Words—Gone are words like “sin” and “saint.” Replaced by “interdependent” and “biodegradable.” One Nation, Godless—Newsweek writer wants “Under God” removed from the pledge. Crazy Christmas—Rent Ralphie’s House or eat some elf. It’s all here. Words Mean Things:… Continue Reading →
Many words associated with Christianity have been removed from a children’s dictionary in Britain. Come on! Tell me you’re surprised. Oxford University Press has excised words like “aisle,” “Saint,” “devil,” “bishop,” and “chapel” from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them… Continue Reading →
As David Waters (from the Newsweek On Faith Blog) would tell it, the clause “Under God” in the pledge of allegiance was added when we, as a nation, were in a pitched battle with atheistic communism. Now that atheism is… Continue Reading →