Month March 2010
President Obama declared yesterday that Hawaii, our 57th state, is undergoing a “special healthcare emergency” due to a heretofore unknown “earthquake.” President Obama has asked former Presidents Nixon and Johnson to head fundraising efforts but has received no response yet…. Continue Reading →
Great damage was done to the pro-life movement yesterday with the endorsement of the Senate healthcare plan by nearly 60 Catholic sisters. With the future of the healthcare bill in question, in rode the habit-less cavalry of sisters to the… Continue Reading →
Matt speaking here: Marcel from Mary’s Aggies has been guest posting here once a week over the last month. He’s done a great job and we’ve been lucky to have him. We will continue having doing guest posters because we’re… Continue Reading →
Catholic Adoption agencies in the UK which were forced out of the adoption business because of their refusal to place children with gay couples may have been given a reprieve, or at least another chance. The High Court ordered the… Continue Reading →
The following is the full text of the letter from Catholic nuns endorsing Obamacare. Below the letter is a complete list of the signatories. Dear Members of Congress: We write to urge you to cast a life-affirming “yes” vote when… Continue Reading →
This is awful. Nuns gone wild. The AP reports: Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion. Some 60 leaders of religious… Continue Reading →
Uh-oh. A “pro-life” Catholic Democrat from Michigan just announced he’ll vote for Obamacare. He’s been rumored to be doing so for a while but now it’s official. He says it’s ok because he’s still pro-life. He tells the New York… Continue Reading →
In all the discussion about whip counts it is easy to lose sight of what really counts and what the health care debate is really all about. It should come as little surprise that this is all about abortion, or… Continue Reading →
Accepting, excepting…. The NY Times just ran a profile on the Rev. Robert Carter, SJ who just passed away at the age of 82. Fr. Carter made headlines in the 70s when he came out as gay and went on… Continue Reading →
There’s bad news and good news for all the aging hippie rucksack wandering Dharma bum pro-choice types. First. Hold on to your sandals ’cause here’s the bad news. You might remember that last year a Gallup poll found that for… Continue Reading →