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
Awesome
Palin named as McCain running mate. I have to say I had many reservations about McCain for a long time, but little by little, he starting to win me over. Dear Mr. Luse was the first person I thought about when I heard about this.
Update
On that whole “t-shirt” entry below.
A Very Rare Occurrence
I am home alone for the long weekend. My husband took the kids to visit my MIL. He offered to leave me to get a break, especially from the nursling I have been trying to wean with no luck, but at first I blew him off. First they are stopping in the Bronx to visit… Continue reading A Very Rare Occurrence
Girls and the Sonogram Machine
The Global War Against Baby Girls If you were asked to name the technologies whose proliferation inadvertently threatens the human race, what would you include? IEDS? Assault rifles? Nuclear warheads? Add this one to your list: the sonogram machine… Eberstadt explains that there is a “slight but constant and almost unvarying excess of baby boys… Continue reading Girls and the Sonogram Machine
I Think My Children Saved Me
Many members of my family have “issues” (like every other family), and of course gossip stems from these various issues (although I guarantee these days I am the source of plenty of fodder-actually I know I am as I stumbled in a conversation about me and “all those kids”, but that’s another story). One common… Continue reading I Think My Children Saved Me
Preach It!
Denver Archbishop: Planned Parenthood Offends Minorities A new Planned Parenthood clinic in a minority neighborhood of Denver should be taken as an offense, affirmed the archbishop of the city. Archbishop Charles Chaput said this at a prayer vigil and march at the site of Planned Parenthood’s new clinic in a primarily Latino and African-American suburb… Continue reading Preach It!
“An ardent, practicing Catholic, uh….”
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