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Original post: John Paul II’s Case Against Cohabitation By CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY | A new study touting the “benefits” of cohabitation is based on deeply flawed ideas about human nature and fulfillment, according to a leading scholar on the social role of families. “It’s garbage in, garbage out,” said Scott Yenor, the Boise State University political science professor whose book Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political … … Original post: John Paul II’s Case Against Cohabitation Original post: The Cinematic Good vs. Evil Matrix and a Message from Mission Control Above, in poster form, are thoughts that flashed though my mind as the solid propellant boosters on the good ship Freedom of Conscience were jettisoned. As these different scenes along the matrix of good vs. evil flashed past my mind’s … Continue reading → … Original post: The Cinematic Good vs. Evil Matrix and a Message from Mission Control Here is the original post: Ethiopia: Education for Somali refugee children East Africa is currently suffering its most severe drought in sixty years. The worst-affected country has been Somalia, with famine in five districts, resulting in an outpouring of refugees to neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya. Father Frido Pfleuger SJ, regional director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Eastern Africa, has just returned from a visit to the Dollo Ado refugee camps in south-east Ethiopia, and in this interview he describes his impressions of the situation on the ground and how JRS is getting involved…. Here is the original post: Ethiopia: Education for Somali refugee children View original post here: Seattle Showdown By GERALD RUSSELLO | In a federal court in Seattle, the fight for religious liberty is entering a new phase. As we have written before (“Conscience Claws,” Register, May 31, 2010), the case, called Storman’s, Inc. v. Selecky, shows in stark relief the role of the state in infringing religious liberty in favor of secular values. Christian pharmacists are protesting a … … View original post here: Seattle Showdown Please click the link to read the reflection on today’s Gospel: The heroic minute, immediately upon waking – the first battle of the day A Carthusian monk, from the film “Into Great Silence” 5 th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 1:29-39 Rising very early before dawn, [Jesus] left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed. After exorcising a demoniac, healing St. Peter’s mother-in-law, and curing many others, Jesus teaches us the absolute primacy of the interior life by rising early the next morning, before it was day, so as to go to a deserted place and pray. Fr. Conrelius a’ Lapide tells us: “Learn here from Christ to give the early morning to prayer, and to rise up with the dawn, so as to have leisure for meditation, and to give the first-fruits of the day to God. For the dawn of day is a friend of the Muses, but a greater friend of God and the angels.” It is better to pray in the morning Together with all the spiritual doctors before and after, St. Francis de Sales recommends that mental prayer (including the Rosary) be done in the early morning [Introduction to the Devout Life II,1]: “Give an hour every day to meditation before dinner [i.e. … See the original post: The heroic minute, immediately upon waking – the first battle of the day Read the original here: Book Review: Dante in Love A.N. Wilson has reconstructed a historical tour guide packed with entertaining and illuminating details, carefully and clearly describing the complex local conflicts of the Ghibelines and Guelfs that dominated Dante’s Florence, telling of riots in Florence in the key year of 1300 and tracing Dante’s personal relationships.He describes Dante’s great work, , as a ‘mystical autobiography’ in the tradition of St. Augustine’s and insists that ‘if Dante’s Comedy works – if it takes you over, which is what it is trying to do – then in the end, you become the pilgrim’…. Read the original here: Book Review: Dante in Love Read more: Komen & Planned Parenthood: The Real Lesson By Steven D. Greydanus | As far as I can tell, the real story at the center of this week’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation / Planned Parenthood debacle is not that Komen cut off Planned Parenthood from existing funding. (They didn’t. Existing grants were to be honored for over a year.) Nor is it that Komen excluded … … Read more: Komen & Planned Parenthood: The Real Lesson Original post: Mitt Romney Writes Op-Ed Against HHS Mandate By EWTN NEWS/CNA | Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pledged to overturn the HHS contraception mandate that he says takes “particular aim” at Catholics. “I stand with the Catholic bishops and all religious organizations in their strenuous objection to this liberty- and conscience-stifling regulation,” Romney wrote in a Feb. 3 Washington Examiner column titled “President Obama vs. Religious Liberty.” If … … Original post: Mitt Romney Writes Op-Ed Against HHS Mandate Go here to read the rest: Komen’s Rapid Policy Reversal Blamed on Planned Parenthood Shakedown By CHARLOTTE HAYS | Pro-lifers were shocked today as the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure of Breast Cancer, perhaps the world’s leading cancer-advocacy group for women, announced that it is backtracking on an earlier decision to halt funding to abortion provider Planned Parenthood. They are going to honor current grants to Planned Parenthood and suspend future funding pending the … … Go here to read the rest: Komen’s Rapid Policy Reversal Blamed on Planned Parenthood Shakedown See the article here: Have You Purchased Your Susan G. Komen Pistol Yet? UPDATED Aw…ain’t it cute? OK, file this one under the “Truth is stranger than fiction” category. Because it’s for real. That is, unless you’re like me and you realize that any pistol not available in 9MM is a complete waste of … Continue reading → … See the article here: Have You Purchased Your Susan G. Komen Pistol Yet? UPDATED Go here to read the rest: ‘Give them exactly what they want’: The Meditation on the Two Standards In the Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius places before us a fundamental choice between the way of Lucifer and the way of Christ. The Meditation on the Two Standards offers us a means of imagining these two ways of life competing for our commitment. Roger Dawson SJ explores the decision that we are confronted with in the meditation: what is at stake for us in choosing between the two standards?… Go here to read the rest: ‘Give them exactly what they want’: The Meditation on the Two Standards See the original post: An Insiders Look at the Life of Pope John Paul II By JOHN M. GRONDELSKI | Think of Pope John Paul II’s secretary, and Stanisław Dziwisz springs to mind. Then-Father Dziwisz was Cardinal Wojtyla’s secretary since 1966; he served him until the day he died — and is now his successor as archbishop of Krakow. But over the course of his quarter-century pontificate, John Paul also had other assistant secretaries. One of … … See the original post: An Insiders Look at the Life of Pope John Paul II Go directly to: Vatican II and the Two Ends of Marriage A Catholic couple that I know went to a pastor to arrange for marriage. They had mentioned to friends and relatives that for various reasons they had no intention of having children, and they made this known to the pastor when he asked. Continue reading here: Strengthening Your Family Parenting is so easy, anyone can do it. It’s just a matter of instinct. And then, the children arrive. Holes the size of craters then perforate your belief system long before Junior even says his first word. Marge Fenelon knows both sides of the family coin — the before know-it-all syndrome and the wow-wasn’t-expecting-that. In … Continue reading here: Strengthening Your Family Original post: Ross Douthat Makes A Good Point… Just because you can think up an idea, doesn’t mean it’s a good one. Or a licit one. In a response to a reader’s comment from his Sunday column, Government and it’s Rivals, about the HHS Mandate, Douthat writes and … Continue reading → … Original post: Ross Douthat Makes A Good Point… Read the rest here: Book Review: The Great Disruption As a non-scientist, Paul Gilding approaches the issue of climate change with a combination of basic scientific understanding and common sense. He begs to differ from the doomsday predictions proffered by such eminences as James Lovelock. Gilding is pointing to perhaps the most important sign of our present times; he’s also responding to it with what he calls hope…. Read the rest here: Book Review: The Great Disruption |
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Book Review: Memoirs
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There are many reasons why readers of this autobiography of the peer and former Editor of , William Rees-Mogg might have reached for its cover from the bookseller’s shelves. The prose tantalises but also infuriates the reader and leaves them looking for more. Rees-Mogg describes all that passed before him with a kind of ethereal semi-detachment. This approach gives the impression of his floating above the action rather than being engrossed in it….
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