Posted in Apologetics, Children, Marriage, Religion, Right to Life, Science, Sexuality on March 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Thomas Beatie might legally be regarded as a man. However, from the perspective of the Church and nature “he is still a “she”. The DNA is female and that is not altered by so-called sex-change operations. Beatie opted to keep the vagina and now with reproductive therapies, and no doubt, sperm donation, is pregnant.
A LIST [...]
Posted in Catholic News, Divorce, Obituaries, Patriotism, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Television/Movies, philosophy on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Paul Scofield died from Leukemia on March 19, 2008 at the age of 86 at a hospital near his home in Sussex, England.
Taken from an entertainment news show…
MAY HE REST IN PEACE!
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic News, Politics, Religion, Television/Movies, Uncategorized on March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the most influential and vocal Muslims in Italy became a Roman Catholic at the hands of Pope Benedict XVI at the Holy Saturday liturgy for Easter! You have to give it to this Pope, he is afraid of NOTHING and NO ONE!
Magdi Allam traveled to Mecca as a child but as a man he [...]
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic News, Religion, Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
NEW TEXT FOR TRAD LATIN GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE (translation):
Let us pray for the Jews. May the Lord Our God enlighten their hearts so that they may acknowledge Jesus Christ, the savior of all men. / Almighty and everlasting God, you who want all men to be saved and to reach the awareness of the truth, [...]
Posted in Catholic News, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was baptized as a Christian, albeit into a heretical offshot of Orthodoxy where milk is used instead of wine for the divine liturgy. They are mockingly called “The Milk Dunkers”. However, in practice, Gorbachev was both an athiest and a communist, facts we should not be too quick to forget.
This [...]
Posted in Asides, Catholic News, Religion, Reviews, Science Fiction, Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
His wife resports that Sci-Fi author John C. Wright entered the Catholic Church this past Easter. A fellow Marylander, he majored in philosophy and went to law school, but never practiced. His journey is one from athiesm to Christianity.
He is one of the younger writers of the Science Fiction genre so I have to admit that [...]
Posted in Asides, Catholic Sites, Humor, Interesting Sites, Oddities, Personal, Politics, Priesthood, Priests' Blogs, Religion on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
http://orthometer.blogspot.com/2008/02/nominate-me-or-else.html
The competition this year was steep, especially for BEST PRIEST’S BLOG, and I do not advertise the blog in the parish. However, even in my passivity about the blog lately, I fared well against my rival from last year. When you’re done reading my blog, you can take a look at his.
I am not [...]
Posted in Holy Family Church, Homilies, Humor, Ministry, Religion on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear Friends,
The Church offers us the story of the empty tomb on Easter morning. The first to reach the tomb and to make the discovery that the stone had been rolled away is Mary Magdalene. Our Lord had exorcised her from the bondage of seven demonic spirits. Venerable piety had alternately linked her to the prostitute [...]
Posted in Asides on March 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Maybe . . . we were supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that, when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
Maybe . . . when the door of happiness closes, another opens; but, often times, we look so long at [...]
Posted in Asides, Patriotism, Politics, Religion on March 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
FOR THE FIRST TIME?
HAND ON HEART?
A MUSLIM ISSUE?
A MENTOR?
WHERE IS THE BIGOTRY?
That is why I love Jesus, yall, “He never let their hatred dampen his hope!”
These tubes are interesting, but how important are they really in the campaign? It seems to me that America has a lot to discuss. Senator Obama, no matter whether one [...]
Posted in Asides, Humor, Personal, Religion on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
May the roads rise to meet you,
May the winds be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
and as the beloved late pastor at Holy Family, Fr. Mike Kidd used to say, in [...]
Posted in Catholic News, Family, Ministry, Obituaries, Personal, Priesthood, Religion on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Mary D., a parishioner of mine was distantly related to the late Fr. Luther (my old friend) and a relation sent her the blurb about his death that ran in the Diocesan Catholic newspaper:
SOUTHERN NEBRASKA REGISTER
SUPERIOR (SNR) - Father Philip Luther, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Superior and Sacred Heart Parish in Nelson, died [...]
