Posts Tagged ‘religion’

…so blogging might be light.

Lucky for everybody others are on the ball:

Casey Fiano takes a pause from her pro life blogging to remind us of the small annoyances that the Obama administration brings us:

“An international partner”?? This may be an international relief effort — with the United States as usual giving far more than any other country — but that hasn’t kept other countries from flying their flags. France, Germany, and Croatia are all flying their flags, just like every other country. I doubt anyone in Haiti is weeping over the French, German, and Croatian occupations taking place because of it. No one besides Obama is idiotic enough to think that flying our flag means that we’ll be seen as an occupation force. It’s perfectly clear to everyone with a brain that we are in Haiti for one reason alone, and that is to give relief.

Considering the amount of money, time, and manpower we’ve contributed to the relief effort in Haiti, one would think that Obama would be proud to have our flag flying in Haiti. But Obama isn’t a president who is proud of his country, is he? He’d rather apologize for the United States than take pride in it. We are literally saving lives for no gain of our own in a foreign country, and he’s still apologizing.

If we aren’t even allowed to be proud of the country when we are doing a humanitarian mission when will it be.

At the other McCain Smitty has a word about St. Patrick’s day at google:

As a Christian, I’ll venture as a default position that Saint Patrick would be as excited about the attention directed at himself, and not Christ, as, say, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be.
Heaven forbid anything ever be about me personally, in all seriousness.

I don’t know it sure looks like a cross on that G to me and anyways we Catholics don’t have a problem asking the saints to pray for us. After all these guys have proven that they know what they’re doing.

Meanwhile the Washington Monthly bemoans CNN’s desire to try to actually get people to watch them.

This is easily the worst decision CNN has ever made. That the network probably reviewed Erickson’s work before hiring him, and offered him a job anyway, suggests CNN’s professional standards for what constitutes “an important voice” have all but disappeared.

The point here isn’t that it’s disappointing to see CNN hire yet another conservative voice, adding to its already-large stable of conservative voices. To be sure, it’s frustrating, but it’s nothing new.

The problem here is with Erickson himself.

Well Erickson did give me CPAC credentials so that’s a strike against him.

And if you need a sign of spring, look no further than the site of Father Z. He not only give you a taste of the birds of spring he handles the attacks on the Pope exactly the right way:

Pray.

Just pray.

Forgiveness for the haters.

Forgiveness for the failings of all professed Catholics.

Consolation for the damaged.

Courage, health and length of days for the Pope.

And he provides a prayer for those who might not have one handy.

I’ll be back in a bit, meanwhile pop in The Quiet Man and enjoy St. Patrick’s day

The Catholic faith has a rich tradition , actual Catholics fight against abortion as an intrinsic evil.

Geroge Soros has a rich bank account, rich enough to fund pseudo catholic groups to give a veneer of respectability to what is not.

As you know I’m not working right now, I suspect if I was willing to sell my faith this way on the blog I would never have to worry about money again. It’s amazing what some people will do for funding and publicity. It brings a whole new meaning to the expression: “Selling one’s soul”.

And to answer Stacy McCain, we Catholics are aware of groups like this and of the National Catholic Reporter for some time. With them actual belief is an optional extra. Just check the archives of the American Papist.

The best way to describe them is a “modernist”, as per this clip from Yes Prime Minister. The church being described is Anglican but the principle is the same.

Yup that the NCR all right, a cross between a socialite and a socialist.

…but there were plenty of tea party people and solid Christians at CPAC and although they disagree on a few issues they got along just fine.

Just ask Cynthia Yockey and Bruce Carol if all those Christian Bloggers ran them out on a rail. Or if that notorious Catholic blogger who opposes gay marriage refused to interview them.

Stacy meanwhile notes some interesting links for the “Evangelical” in question.

Concerning this post Adrienne, no actually I’m not sickened because it’s what I expect.

One of the advantages of being a believing Catholic, (although not as good a one as I’d like) is that you see the struggle that life is made up of. There are two sides in this struggle and one side wants to promote and normalize evil.

This side will use both allies and dupes to achieve this but it really doesn’t matter as long as the evil is normalized, ignored and even protected by society.

Your naivete is understandable if you don’t look at the issue from this perspective, but one you do; you realize it is all part of the fight. This is and always was the goal.

Don’t give up the fight, it will change. It will take a generation for it to happen but it will change.