Yearly Archives: 2009

NEITHER BOTOX NOR PLASTIC SURGERY WILL CURE THE DISFIGUREMENT OF THE HUMAN SOUL CAUSED BY SIN

A few years ago someone, as a practical joke I am sure, gave me a trial subscription to Vanity Fair. Along with all of the fashion photos of beautiful professional models, the magazine would include on the gossip pages photos … Continue reading

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COLUMBUS DAY PROMPTS A REFLECTION ON SPAIN, THE CHURCH AND THE UNITED STATES

SPAIN HAS HELD A SPECIAL FASCINATION FOR ME, ALL MY LIFE Perhaps the reason for my fascination is the fact that my paternal forefathers emigrated from Spain to Oaxaca in Mexico in the Eighteenth Century about the same time that … Continue reading

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THE LEGISLATIVE BATTLE WE ARE ENGAGED IN IS AS IMPORTANT IN ITS OWN WAY AS LEPANTO WAS TO THE WESTERN WORLD

OCTOBER IS THE MONTH OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSAY We should pray the rosary with special devotion during this month as Congress is waging war on the lives of the innocent unborn children now in their mothers’ wombs and … Continue reading

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THE NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE GOT IT WRONG, OBAMA SHOULD BE GIVEN THE PRIZE FOR PROMOTING ABORTION ON A WORLDWIDE SCALE

SHOCK AND AWE It is hard to describe my reaction this morning to the news that the Nobel Prize Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to Barack Hussein Obama.  Disbelief, yes!  Disgust, yes!  Incomprehensibility, yes! My initial reaction was … Continue reading

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THREE USCCB CHAIRMEN LAY DOWN THREE CONDITIONES SINE QUA NON FOR THE HEALTH BILL

United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Member of Congress: United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 3211 FOURTH STREET NE • WASHINGTON DC 20017-1194 • 202-541-3160 WEBSITE: WWW.USCCB.ORG/healthcare • FAX 202-541-3339 October … Continue reading

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DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM DICENDUM EST, EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A DECEASED POLITICIAN

The Latin phrase de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est is usually shortened to de mortuis nil nisi bonum or sometimes just nil nisi bonum. It is variously translated as “No one can speak ill of the dead,” “Of the … Continue reading

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DON’T FALL INTO A COMA, YOU ARE LIABLE TO WAKE UP AND FIND THAT YOU ARE MISSING A KIDNEY OR A CORNEA, AND THAT IT WAS REPLACED WITH ONE FROM A PIG!

IF YOU REFUSE TO THINK ABOUT THE UNTHINKABLE IT WILL BECOME A REALITY IN SPITE OF YOU On July 15, 2009 I wrote a short essay on Brain Death, Real Death and Organ Transplants and posted it on this Blog.  … Continue reading

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HERE IS A WAY TO KILL SOMEONE: LET THEM DIE OF THIRST AND STARVATION

IT WILL NOT BE PRETTY, BUT IT WILL BE EFFECTIVE! DEATH WITH DIGNITY IS A EUPHEMISM FOR DEATH BY DESIGN Next month the Catholic Bishops of the United States are scheduled to take up once again the question of whether … Continue reading

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EGALITARIANISM HAS INFECTED OUR SCHOOLS AND SOCIETY

LIBERTE, EGALITE, ET FRATERNITE The national motto of France is popularly believed to have been fixed in the French Revolution as early as 1789, but in reality it was not institutionalized in its present form until the Third Republic at … Continue reading

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HOLLYWOOD AND VILE: SODOMY, RAPE, FELATIO, UROPHILIA, PEDOPHILIA

YESTERDAY I PUT A POST ON THIS BLOG EXTENDING A ‘LEFT-HANDED’ COMPLIMENT TO JESUIT FATHER THOMAS J. REESE. TODAY I AM PLACING THIS ‘RIGHT-HANDED’ COMPLIMENT TO THE EDITORS OF INVESTORS’ DAILY FOR THEIR EDITORIAL OF TODAY. The disconnect between the … Continue reading

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