…that gives me a great excuse to put up the final three videos that I missed the last time, these came from the end of the conference.
I missed all of them before. My bad
Archive for April, 2010
Just got my videos from the Catholic Men’s conference today…
Posted: April 22, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, local stuffTags: catholic, catholic men's conference, short interviews, worcester, worcester diocese
Radical Islam threatening murder is “News you Can’t Use”?
Posted: April 22, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, media, opinion/newsTags: irony, islam, islamic violence, morning joe, MSNBC, south park, tv, War on Terror, willie geist
Morning Joe gets full marks for reporting on the South Park business, pointing out the threats, the difference between the way Mohammad was treated vs Christ, the foolishness of pretending that what was said wasn’t a threat, and the extra censorship on the rebroadcast. All very important, glad to see it happen.
However it was put under Wille Geist’s “News you Can’t use” section.
News you can’t use? Let me get this straight, Bill Clinton tries to link the Tea Parties to Tim McVeigh, that is fine. Radical Islam who you might have heard has a bit of history, “warning” south park is News you can’t use?
I suppose I should take what I can get from MSNBC, ya gotta walk before you run.
Update: Glenn has the line of the week: “Those who have no backbone will do the bidding of those who do.”
The Anchoress informs me of an incredible suggestion:
So here is my question for you. What if our bishops chose to do public penance? What if they lay prostrate or knelt in front of their cathedrals as penitents before each Mass on the weekend closest to the feast of St.Peter and Paul or on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or some other appropriate day or days? Or, even better, on the first Friday of every month for the next year starting with the feast of the Sacred Heart or Sts.Peter and Paul? And what if we, as their deacons, as an order in the Church, in all humility, not only called on our bishops to do public penance, but offered to join them in it?
To those who do not understand Catholicism this might not seem like much but within the Church it would be earth shattering, and the suggestion of inclusion of the laity is even better:
As a lay person, I would participate in this prostration, with my pope, my bishops and priests and all the rest. I would participate as a means of communicating to the victims that I have heard them and that I am united to them, angry for them and ashamed on their behalf, and also to express to the whole world that I too am a sinner, in need of mercy. I would prostrate myself as to express unity with the clergy and religious, that they are no more outside of redemption than the rest of us, that they are valued and their healing is as necessary to the Body of Christ as is the healing of the victims.
My participation would also demonstrate my intention to remain within this injured body, contributing to both its weakness and its strengths, because I know my redeemer lives, and that we all shall rise again.
Count me in.
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