Obama Goes After Fox News Posted on May 21st, 2013 by Squeaker in American Politics Last week we learned of the Obama Administration’s excessive use of force against the Associated Press. Now we learn that a Fox News journalist is being targeted as a potential co-conspirator for leaking government information.
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The American Bible Challenge Posted on May 17th, 2013 by Paycheck in Catholicism You betcha!What a wonderful way to evangelize the Bible Belt!Share this: This entry was posted on Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 9:21 pm and is filed under Catholicism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed
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Our local paper doesn’t have a funnies section. It doesn’t need one, not when you have the Police Report. (Note to our American readers RCMP= Royal Canadian Mounted Police.) Yes, the Mounties, the guys who “always get their man” …but not always the car or the dog, as the case may be.)Also note: the names of the towns blocked out are not one town, but three, and none of them are the town where I live
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The House Of Horrors…The Fruit Of Contraception And Abortion And A Big Ugly Reflection On American Society! The Only Difference Between Abortion And Infanticide Is Geography…A Mere Technicality!Bishop James Conley – Our news outlets are not known for their squeamish attitude toward violence
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I’m continuing a series on things that are destroying American Catholicism. They all begin with the letter ‘C’–as does the solution to the problem
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1 May 2013, 09:33 | International relations | | | Code for Blog | | An advisory body of the American government, the Committee on International Religious Freedom, published today a report on the violations of religious freedom in the world.According to the report, Ukraine is one of the countries with a current tendency to pass laws restricting religious rights and rights of religious groups. In particular, last December President Viktor Yanukovych approved contradictory alterations to the law on freedom of worship and religious organizations, which were criticized by religious communities and the civil society in Ukraine, Radio Svoboda reported.
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US Committee Notes Restrictions of Religious Freedom in Ukraine
… Do you know how hard it is to cultivate in my son’s life these pockets of boyish refuge? Exceptionally hard
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When the Boy Scouts is Boy in Gender Only and Not in Essence…
…Of the burning of York (the original name for Toronto) by American forces. A brief overview of the battle goes a little like this: York (a tiny village at the time, most of it down near the mouth of the Don) was situated on a natural harbour.
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It is one of those mysteries of Single Life. Why do men ask women for their phone numbers and then not call them?My guess is “The goldfish.”Recently I skimmed a news article on a goldfish who had lost its roommate (bowl-mate?) of 30 years.
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Media Are Destabilizing Democracy Posted on April 22nd, 2013 by Squeaker in Media Distortions Great article from Henninger in the Wall Street Journal:Somehow it became a conventional view in contemporary American politics that it is non-urban conservatives who in every case have to accommodate their beliefs to a national culture created by people who live somewhere else. “They” must adjust on abortion, guns, school prayer, sexual mores and all the rest of it.
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“We Must Build A Civilization of Love, Or There Will Be No Civilization At All” Closing out a week that saw his appointment as the lone North American on Pope Francis’ eight-member “governing council” suddenly eclipsed by the brutal horror of Monday’s bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and its aftermath, below is the homily given by Cardinal Seán O’Malley at a Mass for the victims – four dead, over 170 injured, and a still-reeling region beyond – this morning in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross….In the attack’s wake, the Boston cathedral – seat of the nation’s fourth-largest diocese – likewise hosted the city’s interfaith prayer service, its keynote reflection (video/text) given by President Obama.-30- posted by Rocco Palmo at 12:16
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"We Must Build A Civilization of Love, Or There Will Be No Civilization At All"
So the more recent story goes, in the days after Pope Francis’ election, the cardinal-archbishop of Boston dispatched his priest secretary to the Domus with a note for the new pontiff, ordering the aide “to give this letter to someone who will put it into the Pope’s hands.”As it turned out, Fr Jonathan Gaspar didn’t just end up delivering the letter – he met with the Pope.While we don’t know the contents, they were clearly appreciated – this morning, O’Malley was the lone North American named to Papa Bergoglio’s eight-cardinal “task force” chartered both to advise Francis in his universal role and study the reform of the Roman Curia. Given the significance of the call, perhaps it’s to be expected that some have wondered why the nod fell to the 68 year-old Capuchin as opposed to others.
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The twitterati are now an established class of pundits. Journalists and politicians are increasingly known for their 140-characters of sass, more so even than their editorials or full press releases.
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He has been writing an important series on culture, class and the decline of marriage on his blog, but Ross Douthat’s latest column in the New York Times is getting a lot of attention, as it is a rather thoughtful look at the propensity of Ivy-League alums to seek out Ivy-League mates, and how it affects the nation:Of course Ivy League schools double as dating services. Of course members of elites — yes, gender egalitarians, the males as well as the females — have strong incentives to marry one another, or at the very least find a spouse from within the wider meritocratic circle.
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Director of Liturgical Music (anticipated opening), Pontifical North American College, Rome, Italy Posted by Jeffrey Tucker The jobs section of the MusicaSacra.com forum includes a push for a new director of music at the NAC. It is a sign of how much everything has changed in the last ten years
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Director of Liturgical Music (anticipated opening), Pontifical North American College, Rome, Italy
One of the points of collective bargaining—indeed the key point of collective bargaining—is that it is intended to replace the patchwork of individual employment contracts in a workplace with one contract, negotiated by the union, on behalf of all employees.The premise behind this is that individual employees, left on their own, resemble nothing so much as this.Individual contracts, goes the narrative, are the result of a power imbalance between employers and individual employees and are, if not inherently unjust, prone to injustice. The employer has the money, the lawyers, and the consultants.
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At the mere mention of Latin American music, most wouldn’t think of the “classical” music [1] that has been written there starting in the late Renaissance. Many may only think of mariachi bands, the tango, and other rightly well-liked indigenous music, but such a constricted view gives short shrift to the breadth and depth of this great culture
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