Some people need to get their priorities straightI can understand if you think that Mother Teresa did more harm than good (although it's not true) or that she's not important enough to merit the honor (although that's also not true), but if you can honor the other people and groups mentioned then you should certainly honor her. Regardless of how ( Read more... )

Reading this debate on illegal immigration from a religious worldview has brought up for me some thoughts about how as Americans our outlook on the issue is influenced by politics more than faith.

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God bless this man, his victims, and all those who suffer through our vengance-based form of "justice."It was thoroughly unnecessary to kill this man. Not only was he apparently repentant, thereby posing little if any threat to the community, but the jail in which he was incarcerated seemed to have no trouble separating him permanently from society ( Read more... )

We have here a new moment in time, a strange road marker on the journey that is our country's history. For the first time in our history, Protestants will be completely absent from the Court. Even stranger, they've been replaced by members of the two religious groups that have the longest and most bitter history of discrimination in our nation. ( Read more... )

This is about freedom of sexual orientation about as much as Penthouse Forum is about women's liberationRegardless of how you feel about teaching gay pride to high school students, pornography should definitely be out of the question. Would we put copies of Penthouse Forum or Playboy in high school libraries? At least Playboy has something other ( Read more... )

So much for "choice."While I obviously don't think that every abortion supporter would do such a horrible thing, nor do I think that every abortion provider and referrer would condone such actions, there seems to be a thin line between "this is something that should be available" and "I think that certain people should be forced to do this, and I ( Read more... )

I figured that I needed a place where I could post specifically about issues related to Catholicism and religion, and so to that end I just created a new blog at blogger. You can find it here. Hopefully it will fare better than my last blog there, the one that I had about DC rarely got updated and I got rid of it when I moved back to Jersey.

I know that you're tired of these things, but I'm bored so I'm posted it anyway.

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What the Church could learn from Toyota: Don't be the ChurchToyota did many of the same things that the Church is accused of doing. They knowingly covered up things that led to death and injury, and then launched a PR campaign after their crimes were discovered to make themselves look good. As far as I know their senior leadership hasn't been ( Read more... )