Yearly Archives: 2010

Good clear talk about health care debate issues – useful!

I complained the other day that neither side in the Catholic field, the USCCB nor the dissidents, had adequately explained the presumed barrier – or lack thereof – or unacceptable weakness thereof – between federal money and the procuring of … Read More

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Prayer request

I ask some prayers when you think of it over the next few days.

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A magisterium of nuns

In this matter of contingent, prudential judgments, whose judgment will in time prove to have been the more prudent? The Catholic bishops with pro-life groups or their opposition, the LCWR and CHA and NCR, etc? I happen to think the … Read More

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Pelosi invokes St Joseph for her bill

Did I understand this right? Did Speaker Pelosi REALLY invoke St. Joseph for the passage of this health care legislation? From NO online: Friday, March 19, 2010 Oh Dear, Saint Joseph [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Correct me if I am wrong, … Read More

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In Manhattan again

On my way to a symposium on science and faith, two NYC landmarks. UPDATE: I am in the Time-Life Building.

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Archbp Nienstedt to MN Reps

I found this on the blog of the USCCB. There are other good contributions there too. Here’s an email message from earlier this week from Archbishop Nienstedt of St. Paul-Minneapolis to the Minnesota Congressional delegation: March 15, 2010 E-Mail Message … Read More

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A WDTPRS FIRST

I am, for the first time, posting from an airplane during a flight using an inflight connection! This opens a range of possibilities. I have a good connection, fast. I was even able to stream my satellite dish via SlingBox … Read More

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OLDIE PODCAzT 82: St. Joseph: a hymn dissected and a sermon of St. Bernardine of Siena

Here is an oldie: PODCAzT 82: St. Joseph: a hymn dissected and a sermon of St. Bernardine of Siena

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Somehow appropriate

Doesn’t this just fit the news today, on so many fronts?

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What Bp. Zollitsch (Pres. German Bps Conf.) wrote for Die Welt

The wonderfully persistent Anna Arco of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has provided a translation of the defense of Pope Benedict made by Bp. Zollitsch (Pres. of German Bishops Conference) in Die Welt. Responding to accusations in … Read More

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