An interesting article on a annual big event coming up regarding the tragic Acadian Diaspora. (Or war wrime as ome still refer to it down here)
Churches to mark Acadian diaspora
ST. MARTINVILLE - A "Day of Commemoration" memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. on July 28 at St. Martin De Tours Catholic Church.
As mandated by the Queen's Proclamation of Dec. 9, 2003, and with the support of the Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, all churches in the Acadiana region are asked to toll the church bells at 6 p.m. on July 28 in remembrance of the day that the Acadian Deportation Order was signed by British officials in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The signing of the Order by the British Lt. Gov. Charles Lawrence brought about the Diaspora which commenced on Sept. 5, 1755 and resulted in the removal of Acadians from their homelands in Acadie, present-day Nova Scotia. From 1755 to 1763, more than 7,000 (half of the population) perished.
The "Day of Commemoration" event honors the memory of Acadians who died during the years of the deportation.
Brenda Comeaux Trahan, Curator Director of the Acadian Memorial, and Monsignor Douglas Courville of St. Martin De Tours invite all to join in a spiritual memorial to remember the Acadian victims who died during the years of the deportation.
The ceremony will be followed by a prayerful procession to the Acadian Memorial Deportation Cross and the closing ceremony. There will also be a short reception and later a communal dinner at local restaurants in St. Martinville (Dutch treat).
Saturday, July 18, 2009
South Louisiana Churches to Mark Tragic Acadian Expulsion
Vatican Newspaper Runs Nice Article on Oscar Wilde
Speaking of the Vatican Newspaper, The Catholic Key blog has a post up on how L'Osservatore Romano ran a nice article on Oscar Wilde . The UK secular press of course not get the big picture. See L'Osservatore on Oscar Wilde - 'Non e solo un'icona gay'
Vatican Newspapers Praises John Calvin
A little Vatican Newspaper Love here :). See Vatican newspaper praises French Protestant John Calvin
I will try to find a English translation
Is Saint Elvis Looking Over Diocese of Memphis (Catholic Boom Times)
Episcopal Church Goes Boom and Causes Schism
It is pretty much in the cards now. It has happened. I will have much more on this later today. See from the U.K. Times The Americans know this will end in schism
I think finally the American Episcopal Church has overreached so much that the worldwide Anglican Communion will take action.
I can not imagine the Diocese of South Carolina will stay in the TEC structure. That is a substantial loss of both membership and of course historic consequence to the American Episcopal Church. In the end there can not be two Anglican Churches in the USA. As the Midwest Conservative Journal so well points out at DEUCE-9 OFF-SUIT AND ALL-IN
Recognition of ACNA prior to General Convention might have made a difference. It might have strengthened the hand of the Communion Partner bishops and gotten the Episcopal Organization to stand down.
But now that TEO has shed the last vestiges of the Christian religion, recognition solves nothing and changes nothing. Indeed, it may even make things worse.
Leave aside the fact that ACNA itself is an internally-iffy proposition. Forget the fact that Anglican Christianity will contain two churches with mutually-exclusive messages. All allowing ACNA into the club achieves is to insure that North American Anglicanism will be in a perpetual state of war.
The Episcopalians and the North American Anglicans are not only at cross-purposes with one another, they are actively hostile to one another. Once the lawsuits are settled one way or the other, ACNA will spend a good deal if not most of its time issuing position papers explaining why what we preach is the Gospel of Christ and what they preach is not.
I think this very true. In my own neck of the woods I cannot imagine that the Diocese of Western Louisiana(that takes in a good part of the State) is going to go into schism with the worldwide communion. There is sad history being done in front of our eyes but it is for the best.
Louisiana Catholic Blogs Update For July 19, 2009
Since I was at out of state traveling and coming back from a funeral all this week think of this as a Weekly Catholic Update post as I try to gather the post Louisiana Catholic bloggers have done since Monday. It appears many people are on vacation because this was not as big as I thought it would be
Ville Platte Catholic Youth Group has Vacation … and then a change
An Intolerable Compliment (which for some reason is still not showin gup on my sidebar links) has New Magnificat
From The Recamier has her Daily Update: July 17, 2009
Servus Mariae et Jesu has Caritas in Veritate and American Catholic Partisanship
Witnessing Hope has Third time’s a charm?
A Teen Striving for Holiness (which I need to add ot the sidebar) has A Little Suggestion.......
University Catholic- has Ask a Catholic a Question 2.0
Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana has
Bishop Encourages Catholics to Confession, the ‘Oil Change For the Soul’
Sunday Homily - SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE
Obama’s Immoral Authority
Obama Care in 60 Seconds or Less
Giant Webcast Thursday to Educate and Mobilize Pro-Life Americans Against Great Dangers of Obama Health Care Bill
Pope Fractures Wrist, Undergoes Successful Surgery
GOSPEL & MEDITATION: An Unquenchable Fire
SAINT OF THE DAY: ST. ELIZABETH OF SCHONAU
For The Greater Glory has You Could Pray for the Health of the Pope (Good Grief) , Ok, Crossing "2012" off the List (This is so odd), Caritas in Veritate: Part III , Pray for the Pope , The Jesuits Deserve More Recognition. , Why I Don't care about the Sotomayor Hearings , Why I'm Skittish about Health Care Stuff , Give some love to Obama , David Brooks on the Sacrifices of Sotomayor , and Caritas in Veritate: Part II .
Stranger in a Strange Land has Pope Benedict Falls Fractures Wrist , The Great Stem-Cell Research Scam , Saint Bonaventure , Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha , Father Barron: Encyclical Connects "Life Ethics" With "Social Ethics" , and something I will highlight later LSU Professor Comments on Caritas in Veritate
Astonished, Yet at Home! is closing up shop but he will just be posting elsewhere. See Where I Depart: Astonished, At Home, and Challenged , Airplane - Part Seven , and Catholic and American, but Catholic Completely in Charitable Contradiction
The Catholic Foodie has Are you ready for a throwdown? and Zatarain's Jambalaya Throwdown
Looking at the Birds and Considering the Lilies has Thoughts on the Rosary•
Maudie in Mandeville has 27 of 46 members
Our expat blogger in New Jersey Da Mihi Animas has a ton of posts and vids
David Crowder Band - Everything Glorious
Bishop encourages Catholics to confession, the ‘oi...
Saint of the day: Camillus de Lellis
Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne
Pope Benedict fractures his wrist
The Jesus Prayer (of the Heart)
Pope Pius XII was an enemy of the Nazis
Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Feast of the Brown Scap...
Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Brown Scapular
Pope Benedict on Caritas in Veritate
Saint of the day: Bonaventure
Wow, America's got talent!
Holy Father greeted by Salesians at Les Combes
The Prophet of the Future
Church bombings in Iraq
Is Obama Losing the Magic
Contentions has a series of posts that are worth reading on this. See
He Needs Some Serious Self-Reflection
Bob Woodward on Obama
Has the Magic Worn Off?
Also Democrat Mickey Kaus points out some hard truths at Obama as Health Care Salesman: He Sucks!
I think this is all was predictable and my reason are similar to the the ones in the Contentions pieces.
"But Van Dyk also is onto something about the atmospherics of the Obama presidency. This is not a man who has faced intense ideological criticism or practiced, as he instructed American Jewish leaders to do, “serious self-reflection.” He is certain of his liberal views, contemptuous of people who are stuck in “old thinking,” annoyed with even the minimal press criticism he receives and unpracticed in accommodation and negotiation with his political opponents. What was admired as a “cool temperament” in the campaign is now seen as remoteness or blindness to the realities that swirl around him. Yes, he’s perfectly stoic – in his utterly blindness to the ground-breaking events in Iran and his domestic economic failures. So calm! And stubborn, if not oblivious."
Also as Bob Woodard points out Obama has a ton of balls in the air. Way too many at one time. This and his peculiar use of political capital is baffling too me
New Books on Ignatius of Antioch’s Letters
Ok Church Fathers Fans these sound really good. See via the Way of the Fathers Igniting an Ignatius Explosion .
End of Life Catholic Ethical Issues Raised in Health Care Bill (Update)
Second Hand Smoke looks at this at House Health Care Reform Bill: Mandatory Counseling to End Life Sooner in Health Care Bill?.
I think there is a danger here. Especially in my experience with the very old that are very easily manipulated. Combine that with saving money, the trend toward Euthanasia and well I hate to think of the consequences.
Update-
Very Much related The patriotic duty to die
Did the Pope Try to Do too Much in CARITAS IN VERITATE
I was pretty critical of George Weigel initial reactions. I still am. Still in some places he had a point as pointed out at First Things Where Less Would Have Been More which links a New York Times Review.
Should Presidents Lie to the Pope?
The Anchoress thinks it is a bad idea at Obama, “no excuses,” Boxer inexcusable – UPDATED
She states:
There is no excuse for lying to the pope. No excuse, at all. If you’re lying to a pope about an issue as important as human life, well…that’s pre-tty inexcusable.
Pope Benedict Didn't Tell People For Hours He Broke His Wrist
Ex Catholic School Teacher The Blue Bayou Voyeur and the Louisiana Video Voyeurism Law
The Baton Rouge Advocate has the story on a former Louisiana Catholic school teacher at Photo taker says he’s guilty Man: Blue Bayou pictures aroused him
This law among some lawyers and othesr has always caused some controversy. Now this post is not to debate the utter creepiness of this guy. But I have always though this law seems way too over broad in some of it's provisions and one could think of many situations where someone could be prosecuted and convicted under the letter of the law that might be absurd.
First here is the text
§283. Video voyeurism; penalties
A. Video voyeurism is: (1) The use of any camera, videotape, photo-optical, photo-electric, or any other image recording device for the purpose of observing, viewing, photographing, filming, or videotaping a person where that person has not consented to the observing, viewing, photographing, filming, or videotaping and it is for a lewd or lascivious purpose; or
(2) The transfer of an image obtained by activity described in Paragraph
(1) of this Subsection by live or recorded telephone message, electronic mail, the Internet, or a commercial online service.
B.(1) Except as provided in Paragraphs (3) and (4) of this Subsection, whoever commits the crime of video voyeurism shall, upon a first conviction thereof, be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than two years, or both.
(2) On a second or subsequent conviction, the offender shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars and imprisoned at hard labor for not less than six months nor more than three years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
(3) Whoever commits the crime of video voyeurism when the observing, viewing, photographing, filming, or videotaping is of any vaginal or anal sexual intercourse, actual or simulated sexual intercourse, masturbation, any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola or of any portion of the pubic hair, anus, cleft of the buttocks, vulva, or genitals shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one year or more than five years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
(4) Whoever commits the crime of video voyeurism when the observing, viewing, photographing, filming, or videotaping is of any child under the age of seventeen with the intention of arousing or gratifying the sexual desires of the offender shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than two years or more than ten years without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
C. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the transference of such images by a telephone company, cable television company, or any of its affiliates, an Internet provider, or commercial online service provider, or to the carrying, broadcasting, or performing of related activities in providing telephone, cable television, Internet, or commercial online services.
D. After the institution of prosecution, access to and the disposition of any material seized as evidence of this offense shall be in accordance with R.S. 46:1845.
E. Any evidence resulting from the commission of video voyeurism shall be contraband. F. A violation of the provisions of this Section shall be considered a sex offense as defined in R.S. 15:541(14.1). Whoever commits the crime of video voyeurism shall be required to register as a sex offender as provided for in Chapter 3-B of Title 15 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
Acts 1999, No. 1240, §1; Acts 2003, No. 690, §1; Acts 2003, No. 1245, §1
Now these laws around the country were enacted in order to combat the situation that ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews found herself in yesterday In fact looking at the provisions of the law including most guys on my LSU football board could be prosecuted under the transfer provision.
Other problems with this law. Notice there is no account of age. So that means a 18 or 17 year old high school kids could be made a sex offender by taking pictures of Cheerleaders at the game and using them to get "sexually aroused". Heck I suppose a 14 year old could be convicted of this in Juvenile Court. Anyone can be prosecuted for taking pictures at the public beach and using such pictures for a "lewd or lascivious purpose".
Again I am not discussing the Morality of such actions but I must say I have huge problems with how lets say a overzealous cop or prosecutor could abuse what must be the original intent.
There are a ton of issues here. I think this law needs to be tightened up some. I mean under this law a person that had a sexual fetish over peoples feet and thus took photographs could be prosecuted. This seems a tad absurd.
Update-
It is a small window on what people think but I am sort of amazed that on this political board people I know of differing political backgrounds mostly think this law is pretty bad
Friday, July 17, 2009
Where is the Louisiana Catholic Blog Update?
Since I have been gone all week that post is going to take some time. So I shall a week long roundup tomorrow.
Nautral Law Takes Big Hit At Judge Sotomayor at Supreme Court Nomination Hearings
I guess Hadley Arkes has more work to do on the Natural Law adult education of the Court and politicians.
This is one of the more interesting exchanges during the hearing.
COBURN: Thank you.
Let me follow up with one other question. As a citizen of this country, do you believe innately in my ability to have self-defense of myself -- personal self-defense? Do I have a right to personal self- defense?
SOTOMAYOR: I'm trying to think if I remember a case where the Supreme Court has addressed that particular question. Is there a constitutional right to self-defense? And I can't think of one. I could be wrong, but I can't think of one.
SOTOMAYOR: Generally, as I understand, most criminal law statutes are passed by states. And I'm also trying to think if there's any federal law that includes a self-defense provision or not. I just can't.
What I was attempting to explain is that the issue of self- defense is usually defined in criminal statutes by the state's laws. And I would think, although I haven't studied the -- all of the state's laws, I'm intimately familiar with New York.
COBURN: But do you have an opinion, or can you give me your opinion, of whether or not in this country I personally, as an individual citizen, have a right to self-defense?
SOTOMAYOR: I -- as I said, I don't know.
COBURN: I'm talking about your...
SOTOMAYOR: I don't know if that legal question has been ever presented.
COBURN: I wasn't asking about the legal question. I'm asking about your personal opinion.
SOTOMAYOR: But that is sort of an abstract question with no particular meaning to me outside of...
COBURN: Well, I think that's what American people want to hear, Your Honor, is they want to know. Do they have a right to personal self-defense?
Do -- does the Second Amendment mean something under the 14th Amendment? Does what the Constitution -- how they take the Constitution, not how our bright legal minds but what they think is important, is it OK to defend yourself in your home if you're under attack?
In other words, the general theory is do I have that right? And I understand if you don't want to answer that because it might influence your position that you might have in a case, and that's a fine answer with me.
But I -- those are the kind of things people would like for us to answer and would like to know, not how you would rule or what you're going to rule, but -- and specifically what you think about, but just yes or no. Do we have that right?
SOTOMAYOR: I know it's difficult to deal with someone as a -- like a judge who's so sort of -- whose thinking is so cornered by law.
COBURN: I know. It's hard.
SOTOMAYOR: Could I...
COBURN: Kind of like a doctor. I can't quit using doctor terms.
SOTOMAYOR: Exactly. That's exactly right, but let me try to address what you're saying in the context that I can, OK, which is what I have experience with, all right, which is New York criminal law, because I was a former prosecutor. And I'm talking in very broad terms.
But, under New York law, if you're being threatened with eminent death or very serious injury, you can use force to repel that, and that would be legal. The question that would come up, and does come up before juries and judges, is how eminent is the threat. If the threat was in this room, "I'm going to come get you," and you go home and get -- or I go home.
I don't want to suggest I am, by the way. Please, I'm not -- I don't want anybody to misunderstand what I'm trying to say.
(LAUGHTER)
Now I was on the edge of my seat here and I am left wondering.
Did the Judge want to blunt out that there is a natural law of self defense and suddenly recalled the can of worms that was with Clarence Thomas and stopped?
Or is she a pure positivist in the tradition of Holmes ?
What is perhaps more disappointing is that Coburn did not utter those words. Perhaps he was afraid of that too. One would have to get into Natural Law theory that involves of course God and Stuff (Is quoting St Thomas Aquinas Foreign Law?) and that makes everyone nervous from the liberal democrats to Libertarian Republicans that talk about rights but at times gets hazy on where these rights come from.
Even though I expect most people think in their terms as a Human Being they have a natural law right by God for self preservation with in certain limits However to open up that can of worms (and the Const is not creating a new right but a preexisting one and a inherent one regardless of who you are) then we might have to contemplate what the natural law means in other categories.
Which of course gives the shivers to people on all sides.
More material here
Kopel, Gallant, & Eisen, “The Human Right of Self-Defense,” 22 BYU Journal of Public Law 43 (2008).
Kopel, “Self-defense in Asian Religions,” 2 Liberty Law Review 79 (2007).
Kopel, “The Catholic Second Amendment,” 29 Hamline Law Review 519 (2006).
at this link Heller Discussion Board: Miller, Colt .45s and Natural Law Friday
Also see this Law review article on the topic available for free download The Natural Right of Self-Defense: Heller's Lesson for the World available for free download.
LSU Coach Les Milis Visits the Lake Charles Faithful- An Overview
Carl Dubois who was present for this stop on the Tiger Tour has a nice post on this. See Column: Snapshots of Miles on Tiger Tour 2009
The Fallacy of Some Liberal Catholic Social Justice Thinking- Lets Soak the Rich!! (Updated)
Michael Sean Winters either writes columns I totally agree with or very much disagree with. This column is the wacko department. See his piece at the Catholic America magazine blog Yes, Let's Tax the Super-Rich to Pay for Health Care.
Now there are many problems with this. The use of the term neo cons is annoying. I thought neo con referred to a particular foreign policy mindset but now it appears to refer to a specific economic mindset as well. Who knew?
He states at the end "I vote for Democrats for one primary reason. They raise taxes on the rich. It remains a good reason to vote for them. Now, so long as they can keep the abortion funding out of the bill, this health care reform could become the first outstanding example of a policy that reflects Benedict’s call for a more just society."
If he thinks this the prime call of the Pope he is out to lunch.
There has been a fine response to how irresponsible this all is. See Health Care is More Important than Class Warfare, America! via the Action Inst.
Let me add my own contribution. The Pope, when he was Cardinal, made this observation about economics
A morality that believes itself able to dispense with the technical knowledge of economic laws is not morality but moralism. As such it is the antithesis of morality. A scientific approach that believes itself capable of managing without an ethos misunderstands the reality of man. Therefore it is not scientific.
Related to this is a observation made at the Atlantic. See Funding Health Care With a Surtax. She states in part:
Yet the more practical plans for funding Obama's expensive agenda involve things like a VAT, which will fall on the activists most enthusiastic about national health care. Yet none of the think tankers I know believes that they are undertaxed, or can easily spare 10% of their wages.Why is that the most practical? Look at our current deficit. There's a reason that most countries do not attempt to fund large welfare states with a very progressive income tax, the way we do*. The income of the wealthy is fungible, mobile, and volatile. These are not strengths from the vantage of the tax system.Paying for a huge new entitlement which will, at best, grow steadily during downturns, should not be done with a tax that will plummet the way progressive income tax revenues seem to during a depression. See: California, State of.
But yet this does not seem to enter many more lets say Obama supporting liberal Social Catholic Justice minds. In fact perhaps Mr Winters has given us a great insight in the thinking.
This is not the first time this has happened. I can recall a whole much of Catholic Social Justice organization running to embrace the Obama Stimulus plan and issuing a report how good it was. Well it appears it was not as advertised. Thus they have sort of cut their throat because the next time people might not be buying a need for yet more huge expenditures. This might hurt them and us where there might be a real need in certain situations for expenditures on x.
Update-
Perhaps Mr Winters and all of us as to the Health Care Bill need to be concerned about a lot of things. See via the Strata Sphere Obamacare: Only The Strong Will Survive III
Sonia Sotamayor On A Diverse Supreme Court (Humor)
Iowa Hawk is struck again at A Wise Latina Will Add Spice to the Menudo of Justice
What Should A Catholic Judge Be Like?
Nice post at From the e-mailbag: thoughts on being a "Catholic judge" via the Deacon's Bench
Is It OK For Southerners to Dislike William Faulkner Books
That seems almost like heresy to write that title. I know literate Southerners are suppose to rave about Faulkner. I also am intrigued with the Mississippi Delta region so I should. However Rod Dreher shows why I can't get into his writing at Book, I've changed my mind. Get out. I agree totally.
Add this to my other Southern heresies of not thinking I have to eat homegrown tomatoes every five seconds in the summer, and really hating pecan pie.
I Hope this Canada Export Is Banned Under NAFTA- Human Rights Tribunals
If this ever occurs in the United States I am moving. I really can't understand how rational people thought this Human Rights Tribunal was a good idea.
Creative Minority Report has Church Stands Before Human Rights Tribunal?
Papal Medical Update
Thoughts on the Supreme Court Confirmation hearing
Some thoughts here My Aunt died this week so I had to go Fayetteville Arkansas. The hearings were a much needed distraction for me during this time so I followed them closely. I was able to catch all the questioning on Tuesday on the drive up, caught the recap on Wednesday, and heard all the questioning on the drive down yesterday.
Here are a few thoughts on the confirmation
I do think think elections matter and Obama is owed some considerable deference here.
Sen Lindsey Graham must have been a fine damn trial lawyer. I think on the GOP side he was the best Senator questioning (he sort of almost drew her in and caught her off guard) with the GOP Senator of Oklahoma being a second.
I very much like these hearings without Kennedy and Biden because there seems to be less drama and needless pontificating.
I understand why potential Justices cannot answer questions that might be before them in the future ,but this receached some absurd heights. I mean when she was hesitant to talk about her view or what theory she had as to how the bill rights are incorporated against the States and local Govt I just rolled my eyes .That to me over all her answers was the least satisfying.'''
She did a good job of controlling her tempers but she has ONE!!! I kind of leaked through twice. So she should be interesting
Though she is not the verbal genius of Alito or Roberts she appears competent .
She shares with Alito the trait in Confirmation hearings of being boring is good and likely to get you confirmed.
I thought the Internataional Law controversy they were questioning her on is largely a faux one
She was laying it on a bit thick .
However her record DOES show some independence so conservatives might need to be counting their blessing.
Despite how all the talk of how the GOP is not conservative it is amazing how many conservative issues are at the forefront and how even liberal have to to move the right. We saw that as to Gun control and Property rights.
Property rights and the taking clause was discussed more than any time I can recall.
On the flip side the main advocate of that issue the Senator from Iowa makes me grimace when he talks. If you like that issue then I suggest a more articulate spokesman.
The Second Amendment was more front and center by the GOP and by two or three of the most liberal Senators that seems to agree with the right. That is real progress .
I predict both Conservatives(of a more libertarian bent) and liberals are going to be dismayed by her Criminal court opinions. I think her experience as a DA is going to make her to side with the cops and DA's more on such issues as searches and seizures etc etc.
She is a likable person .
The GOP Senators did a good job on the PR battle on issues they want the public too look at for the most part These issues include affirmative action, second amendment , pro-life etc and thus this is important in that overall war .
That being said I do think too much time was spent on the Latino comments and not enough on issues such as Federalism , and her view of the Constition interpretation. One Senator yesterday today in his last ten minute followup was the only one that raised issues of Orginalism, Living Const, Fuunders intent etc etc. That was sort of a missed opportunity
She will be confirmed The right and conservatives have lost interest. Last night on the major FOX shows it seemed her confirmation hearing was almost a after thought in placement.
I think this is good tactics In the end she is is likely in the Left of Center mainstream and that is ok. Do we GOPERS and conservatives really want a Liberal version of Scalia on the bench whose dissents could take added force over the years?
Conservatives and liberals do not want to talk about Natural Law. See her answer to the Self defense question and no GOP follow up because well natural law opens up a can of worms certain factions on our side do not want to open up. That is sad.
Finally as a Catholic Pro-lifer I am not too thrilled at all. But elections do matter. When people say the GOP and the Dems are the same they should look at this hearing. We can see despite the cynics no they are NOT the same and the election of Obama over McCain will have huge effect over the years. Just thank GOD Bush got to trade two GOP choices with out on. Lets just hope Thomas or Scalia DON'T come down with cancer or get hit by a car ,and let Stevens have many more years so Obama does not replace him
Monday, July 13, 2009
Prayers Please
I suspect after tonight there shall few post this week till at least Friday. My beloved Aunt has died after a three year battle with cancer. We Learned last week her cancer was out of remission and in her Liver. Four days AGO she learned this and then it took her is quite a quick way that we could never expect. Perhaps that was a blessing.
I will try to get a few post out tonight since I generally like to sleep on the long trip to Northern Arkansas during the the long travelday.
Anyway if you can recall the name of Janet Shepherd in you prayers tonight. Thank you. She was a wonderful woman.
For the Legionaries of Christ Time to Fish or Cut Bait
Plenty Blunt interview . I think he is right on
Eric Cantor the Republican Whip On Obama's Pledge to Pope To Reduce Abortions
This sounds like a good start. Since you know this has the possibility of increasing abortions in a dramatic fashion.
Obama Nominates Papal Recognized Catholic as Surgeon General
And A Southerner. I hope this is good as it sounds. We shall see. Whispers has Pro Ecclesia et... Obama: A Catholic "Top Doc
Update- Well I hope these are not bad signs
We shall see
The Pope's New Encyclical and Obama's Sacking of the Bioethics Council
Southern Appeal has a great link that should be read in full. See The Fate of the Bioethics Council.
After reading the Papal document and all the talk of technology, bioethics, the need to use reason, etc once cannot but note the irony that the one Govt boby suited to help us on this is now gone.