Monthly Archives: May 2015

IT IS BETTER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF TOO MUCH FORGIVENESS THAN NOT ENOUGH

!!!! For Robert Downey Jr., Forgiveness Transcends Mistakes Would you rather live in Robert Downey Jr.’s world of ‘do unto others as you’d have them to do you,’ or The New Yorker’s, where any weakness is an excuse to write … Continue reading

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GERMAN BISHOPS HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THINKING ABOUT THINKING ABOUT THINKING

!!!! Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, with beard, arrives for a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Sept. 25, 2011. (CNS) The Catholic Church’s German Crisis One rarely finds, among German churchmen today, a sobered … Continue reading

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STOP !!! STOP WHAT ? STOP RECEIVING HOLY COMMUNION IN THE HAND !!!

!!!! . . . May 20, 2015 The Reception of Holy Communion in the United States Tagged as Holy Communion, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Liturgy, Memoriale Domini, post-Vatican II Crisis, USCCB By Christian Browne CRISIS MAGAZINE The Voice for the Faithful … Continue reading

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OUR STATES’ LAWS REFLECT THE FACT THAT EVERY CHILD WILL HAVE A MOTHER AND A FATHER, IT IS THE LAW OF NATURE

!!!! Our laws, including those under review in the cases now pending before the Supreme Court, reflect the judgment that marriage is the conjugal union of spouses, rooted in the sexual-reproductive complementarity of male and female, which brings together a … Continue reading

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“MAN’S BEING IN GOD: THIS IS HEAVEN”

!!!! THE ASCENSION OF THE GLORIFIED JESUS CHRIST by El Greco > HOMILY OF THE ASCENSION The homily extract offered here was delivered by Benedict XVI in Cassino, under the hill on which stands the famous abbey of Montecassino, where … Continue reading

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THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV IS JUST AND MORALLY LICIT

Sunday, May 17, 2015 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR PROVEN HEINOUS CRIMES AGAINST THE STATE IS MORALLY CORRECT !!!! Twelve Massachusetts jurors returned a verdict of death for jihadist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who together with his brother perpetrated the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. … Continue reading

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“IF YOU ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE THIS SACRAMENT, I BAPTIZE YOU IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AMEN”

!!!!   http://liveactionnews.org/nurse-quits-witnessing-abortion-4-pound-baby-girl/ The essay “Products of Conception” is a first-hand account from a nurse who worked in a hospital that did abortions. It’s appeared in a little-known book called “The Abortion Debate: TCU Voices,” which was released in 2012.   … Continue reading

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WE ARE ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ARE GRACED TO EXPERIENCE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS

!!!! THE ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST BY REMBRANT Religions contrived merely by humans tend to be exotic. But in the only actual instance of perfect divinity and perfect humanity united in an historical figure, Christ does not go about dressed … Continue reading

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NORTH CAROLINA, LIKE TEXAS, WRESTLES WITH THE PROBLEM OF PALLIATIVE CARE AND ASSISTED SUICIDE

!!!! The NC legislature has before it two bills on assisted suicide, one to authorize it and one purporting to criminalize it. It is important to understand that the right-to-die movement contains two distinct groups, each of which supports one … Continue reading

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DOCTORS ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE AS LIFE GUARDIANS SINCE THEY ABOLISHED THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

!!!! Always Care, Never Kill: How Physician-Assisted Suicide Endangers the Weak, Corrupts Medicine, Compromises the Family, and Violates Human Dignity and Equality Ryan T. Anderson March 24, 2015 Reproduced with Permission The Heritage Foundation Abstract: Allowing physician-assisted suicide would be … Continue reading

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