Monthly Archives: July 2010

I’m Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!

Sorry for the blog silence. I had trouble staying connected. I thought that it had something to do with all of the rain that we have had. But it seems that I managed to not see a update notice for … Continue reading

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A Catholic teaching Catholicism. Oh my!

File this under water is wet and the Pope is (gasp) Catholic. Professor Ken Howell at the University of Illinois, was fired for expressing his Catholic Philosophical and moral view point.  Okay, it is a Public University. But oh wait, … Continue reading

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Abortion Is Not A Choice

Back when I was in my free wielding twenties, okay they were not so free as I had two kids and a husband, I was ambivalent about abortion. In general I thought that it was wrong except for, well you … Continue reading

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St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions

Up date: I added a video. Happy Feast day! Saint Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 companions in 1815. Among their number was an eighteen year old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried … Continue reading

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Dark Holes of Despair

Disclosure: I have Deacon’s permission to tell this story. It was Good Friday in 1995. Deacon and I had moved back from Ireland in February. Deacon was looking for work. We were living with my parents. All of our things … Continue reading

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Things You shouldn’t Ask Or Answer

I really, really, really try not to ask Deacon hubby questions like this (H/T Rich Leonardi) Coming Soon a post on the Catholic Church and suicide.

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Be Careful What you Tweet

I am just saying. When we forgo privacy for tweeting, Facebook, or um blogging there may be consequences. Rod Dreher, over on beliefnet, has this: After 20 years with CNN, the network fired Octavia Nasr for tweeting that she had … Continue reading

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The Real Deal

Now these are what I call real super women, and true feminists: Check them out http://www.feministsforlife.org.

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Mind Over Matter

In my crusade against truthiness, I enlist the fine mind of Msgr. Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington DC: Excerpt: “There is a tendency in the modern age, at least in the Western world,  to trivialize the human person. One … Continue reading

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She Is Beautiful

The Catholic Church that is. In an earlier post, The Mystical Body of Christ, I wrote: “Yes the Church is an institution. As an institution it has a visible reality: Vatican City, Cathedrals, the Pope, Bishops, Priests, Deacons, pews full … Continue reading

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