Susan Boyle is sweeping the blogosphere today:
Category: Commonplace Book
Gosh Darn how I love a manly Bishop!
This from Bishop Thomas G. Doran of the Rockford, Ill. Diocese: I would ask that you rescind this unfortunate decision and so avoid dishonoring the practicing Catholics of the United States, including those of this Diocese. Failing that, please have the decency to change the name of the University to something like, “The Fighting Irish… Continue reading Gosh Darn how I love a manly Bishop!
Oh, for the love of…!
Archbishop of New Orleans criticizes ‘blatantly anti-life’ sterilization proposal Louisiana’s Rep. John LaBruzzo, a Republican from Metairie, last week said he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied. His proposal would also cover other forms of birth control, such as vasectomies for men, and could also encourage… Continue reading Oh, for the love of…!
Quote of the Day
Both major U.S. political parties have good people in their ranks. Neither party fully represents a Catholic way of thinking about social issues. One of the lessons we need to learn from the last fifty years is that a preferred American “Catholic” party doesn’t exist. The sooner Catholics feel at home in any political party,… Continue reading Quote of the Day
If That is Funny, Why Aren’t I Laughing?
On the 4th of July, I was at a get together at a girlfriend’s house along with some of her extended family. I was having a conversation with her where we were talking about one of our recent fun adventures of the flu going through the house, and our jobs as mothers to clean up,… Continue reading If That is Funny, Why Aren’t I Laughing?
Coincidences
“Coincidences are spiritual puns.” — G.K. Chesterton (via the Ironic Catholic)
Don’t love me for sentimental reasons
It is worth noting, by the way, that the most sentimental people, who are loudest against the right to wage a just war, to execute a criminal, are just the people who are most likely to be in favour of ‘putting incurables out of their pain,’ which the commandment against murder most emphatically forbids.–Hilaire Belloc,… Continue reading Don’t love me for sentimental reasons
Two small delights
Regina Doman has an entry up about cake stands. I love cakes. I love baking them, I love eating them, and I love displaying them on the cake stand I inherited from my grandmother. And just reading that short entry about cake stands makes me want to drop what I’m doing and make a white… Continue reading Two small delights