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Priest: No Experience Necessary THE DIGITAL HAIRSHIRT - May 14, 2013 A radio show I tune into in the mornings if I am driving is Seize the Day on The Catholic Channel. Its host, Gus Lloyd, is intelligent and well-spoken, and I enjoy his topics. I even call in sometimes. A discussion ensued last week about this topic - the Class of 2013 for the Catholic priesthood and what their backgrounds show: Among the survey's findings: the median age of ordinands is 32; the mean age, 35.5 the typical diocesan ordinand lived in his ...http://digihairshirt.blogspot.com/2013/05/priest-no-experience-necessary.html
The Equality Fallacy Part II: A Brief Digression LUX MUNDI - April 27, 2013 As I continue this series of posts on the topic of gay marriage, let me digress for a moment to write a few comments on a slightly different but related subject. After publishing the first post in this series, a good Evangelical friend of mine sent me a PM on Facebook about the post. He was positive towards most of the content, but requested that I explain why I wrote that only the Roman Catholic Church was fully equipped to deal with the secular world on ...http://luxmundi3.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-equality-fallacy-part-ii-brief.html
The Texas House Must Not Follow the Senate's Lead and Try to Second-Guess God ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP - April 25, 2013 ... physician, who merely has to say that he verbally notified the patient/surrogate, is afforded all protections from liability provided under Section 166.045(d). If the patient/surrogate disagrees with the DNAR order, he must put his request for an ethics committee meeting in writing. The ethics committee might consider revocation of the DNAR, but this hospital-appointed committee makes the final decision. The patient/surrogate has no legal power to revoke a DNAR order. This process is stacked ...http://abyssum.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/the-texas-house-must-not-follow-the-senates-lead-and-try-to-second-guess-god/
Proposed Colo. Amendment to Protect Unborn Crime Victims CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 9, 2013 ... an unborn child died in a miscarriage after the baby's mother was shot in the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting. The suspected shooter, James Holmes, was not charged for that death. Two personhood amendments have gone before Colorado voters, but neither attracted more than 30 percent of the vote. Another proposed amendment to define personhood failed to qualify the 2012 ballot. These efforts tried to define personhood from the moment of fertilization or from the moment human development begins. ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/proposed-colo-amendment-to-protect.html
Becoming a Catholic Mom CATHOLICMOM.COM - April 8, 2013 Becoming a Catholic Mom As my husband and I knelt before the relics of the manger at St. Mary Major on Christmas, I asked the Child Jesus to bless us with a baby. We'd only been married a few weeks, but I'd had fears of infertility looming over me for months. So with fear, and hope, and a whole lot of Christmas joy, I made my petition before the bed where my Savior slept his first earthly night and ended my prayer (as I've been learning to these last few ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/SrEKZtPW0iE/
In the Company of Saints and Villains: The Work of Divine Mercy THESE STONE WALLS - April 3, 2013 ... light of Divine Mercy. I wonder if he even knows it, but the result just screams out the "unfathomable mercy" mentioned in the above quote from the Diary of Saint Faustina. I urge you to go visit Holy Souls Hermitage without delay and read Pornchai's guest post, " Divine Mercy and the Doors of My Prisons ." It was three years ago next week that Pornchai was Baptized a Catholic, and a year ago next week that he wrote a guest post for These Stone Walls entitled, " The Duty of a ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheseStoneWalls/~3/MJotMrHWSnM/
In the Company of Saints and Villains: The Work of Divine Mercy BY FR. GORDON J. MACRAE MARY, OUR MOTHER - April 3, 2013 ... light of Divine Mercy. I wonder if he even knows it, but the result just screams out the "unfathomable mercy" mentioned in the above quote from the Diary of Saint Faustina. I urge you to go visit Holy Souls Hermitage without delay and read Pornchai's guest post, " Divine Mercy and the Doors of My Prisons ." It was three years ago next week that Pornchai was Baptized a Catholic, and a year ago next week that he wrote a guest post for These Stone Walls entitled, " The Duty of a ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YVVY/~3/MbTmdWz_pOA/in-company-of-saints-and-villains-work.html
As some of you may or may not know, once per week I write a blog article ... AN ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON CATHOLIC - April 1, 2013 As some of you may or may not know, once per week I write a blog article on the Takoma Park Patch. Here is the blog posted on March 27th. +++++++++++++ Recently, someone commented on my posting entitled Gratia Benedictus XVI . This writer, who stated she (and I only assume it was a she but it could have been a he) was a Catholic School teacher. She was very upset that the priest at her parish spoke about the petition against gay marriage. ...http://awashingtondccatholic.blogspot.com/2013/04/as-some-of-you-may-or-may-not-know-once.html
San Giuseppe - Patron of the Universal Church IS ANYBODY THERE? - March 2, 2013 March has traditionally been the month the Catholic Church honors San Giuseppe in a special way. The primary event is his feast on 19 March. But the whole month is meant to see the faithful show their devotion to San Giuseppe in a way that goes beyond the normal exercise of those devotions. 1 of San Giuseppe's titles is Patron of the Universal Church. He was given this title by Pope Pius IX in 1870. Up until 1955 a seperate feast day was celebrated during the Easter season. ...http://al007italia.blogspot.com/2013/03/san-giuseppe-patron-of-universal-church.html
The Vatican's Irish Problem CLERICAL WHISPERS - February 8, 2013 ... Flannery supports allowing women and married men to become priests. He embraces the role of lesbians and gays in the Catholic Church. Flannery also questions the legitimacy of the Vatican's hierarchy, and he warns that unless power is decentralized and free thought is encouraged, church attendance in Ireland will continue to stagnate. These views would seem to be counter to the regular average Irish churchgoer, who, according to numerous polls and surveys, is older and ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-vaticans-irish-problem.html
Aux Barricades, Citoyens CATHOLIC COMMENTARY - January 27, 2013 Catholic Voices noted on 9th January that the engagement of the Catholic Church in France in the political debate on same sex marriage has taken a different pattern than has the corresponding debate here in the United Kingdom: On gay marriage, we have much to learn from France . Whilst the opposition of the Catholic Bishops of France to Francois Hollande's proposed legislation cannot be in doubt, the leadership of the huge "manif pour ...http://rccommentary2.blogspot.com/2013/01/aux-barricades-citoyens.html
In His Time SKY VIEW - January 25, 2013 He who serves God willingly is heard; his petition reaches the heavens. The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds; it does not rest till it reaches its goal, nor will it withdraw till the Most High responds, judges justly and affirms the right. -Sirach 35:16-18 Miracles do happen: Sometimes God's answers to prayer are immediate, leaving no doubt in the mind that favorable outcome we prayed for was inspired by Divine Providence. But there are other times when that same ...http://catholic-skyview-tremblay.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-his-time.html
What I Learned Wednesday #7 JOURNEY OF A CATHOLIC NERD WRITER - January 23, 2013 ... faith has greatly improved. When I mean properly I mean doing it at the assigned hours (much like the Liturgy of the Hours). A lot of the worries and stresses I had don't seem that important anymore. It's not easy to keep up with the prayers, especially after long nights that lead to waking up late, but I've been making an honest effort to keep it up. I've also been doing the pre-Vatican II prayers instead of the ones from post-Vatican II and I've found that I prefer them because of the ...http://catholicnerdwriter.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-i-learned-wednesday-7.html
Roe V. Wade - 40 Years Later . . . CRAZY QUILTS, CATHOLICS, AND COOKIES - January 22, 2013 ... a better place. I asked HOW he figured to take care of the population question. Abortion? Mandatory contraception? He smiled in the usual liberal complacent manner and said, "Education." With thinking like this among the Catholics . . . With the Catholic vote putting an adamantly pro-abort president in office . . . We can probably look forward to another 40 years of mutilated babies and unrealized potential being thrown away. A friend said that we should include in our prayers ...http://crazyquiltscatholicsandcookies.blogspot.com/2013/01/roe-v-wade-40-years-later.html
