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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 Read the complete text here: Dangers seen in Catholic use of Enneagram Writing for Catholic World Report, Anna Abbott reports that Church officials have real concerns about the use of the Enneagram in Catholic retreat centers and other …… Go here to see the original: Dangers seen in Catholic use of Enneagram Read more: U.S. Evangelicals to blame for Ugandan murder? (Manhattan Declaration) – That’s the claim by some pro-gay groups in Uganda. The New York Times reported last week about David Kato, a gay activist that was murdered during an attempted robbery in Uganda. The New York Times chose not to mention that the murder was a part of robbery until late in the article. Prior to explaining the real reason for Kato’s death, they reported on gay activists… Read more: U.S. Evangelicals to blame for Ugandan murder? Visit link: Contraception in the Garden Ignatius Press just sent me galleys for Mary Eberstadt’s forthcoming book, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution . I can’t review it, because I’m thanked so prominently—far beyond my deserts—in the acknowledgements. But that doesn’t mean I can’t recommend it, and, man, do I ever. This is brilliant, serious work of the kind we’ve needed for decades, and it’s also entirely accessible, even winsome, in its prose. Eberstadt argues that there exist two propositions “that are—or ought to be—deeply troubling to serious people.” First, and contrary to conventional depiction, the sexual revolution has proved a disaster for many men and women; and second, its weight has fallen heaviest on the smallest and weakest shoulders in society—even as it has given extra strength to those already strongest and most predatory. For decades now, and apparently out of view of many people telling the tale, a compelling record has been building of the real costs that have been mounting since procreation became so effectively amputated from sexual behavior for so many people. It is a record rich now in detail from a variety of sources ranging from the social sciences—especially psychology and sociology—to more microscopic accounts of the revolution’s real and permanent consequences in many lives. In the midst of the action from HHS, requiring health plans to pay for the Pill, you need to pre-order the book , now. … Visit link: Contraception in the Garden See the entire article here: Society After Abortion Will Look Like Society After Slavery I’ve been reading a fascinating book by economist, Stanford University professor, and Hoover Institute Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell called Black Rednecks & White Liberals.In an essay titled “The Real History of Slavery,” Sowell analyzes the complex reasons why most Americans who were morally opposed to slavery did not side with the radical abolitionists. A whole … See the entire article here: Society After Abortion Will Look Like Society After Slavery Read the rest here: Do Pro-Life People Care About Children After Birth? An old debate friend asked me how I’d answer this question, and if there was any data. First, with this question I’ve learned that data doesn’t matter. It’s a subterfuge tactic to create a distraction from the real issue. If you bring up data, they’ll criticize it in crazy ways. If you offer personal experience, … Read the rest here: Do Pro-Life People Care About Children After Birth? Read full article here: God: Psychological Projection or Real, External Being? In 1841 Ludwig Feuerbach, modernity’s first outright atheist, wrote in The Essence of Christianity that God is nothing more than a projection of the idealized human being: “The divine being is nothing else than the human being, or rather, the human nature purified, freed from the limits of the individual man, made objective – i.e., contemplated and revered as another, a distinct being. All the attributes of the divine nature are, therefore, attributes of the human nature.” For Feuerbach, human beings must reclaim from God these attributes and virtues for themselves if they are to achieve true, human fulfillment. Seventy years later Sigmund Freud put Feuerbach’s God on the couch, and he concluded from his psychoanalysis that “at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father,” the infantile projection of the human need for protection. God is not real for Freud; he is a human invention who succeeds only in generating guilt and anxiety in believers. These arguments for God as a mere figment of the human mind contrast sharply with the Judeo-Christian understanding of God as a real, independent being who is the source of all that is. This understanding stems from reflection on the world and on the inner longings of the human heart. The Catechism of the Catholic Church opens by explaining this latter perspective: Visit link: Is Santorum Weird? Or are his Critics Hypocrites? Is Rick Santorum weird? The answer is yes, according to some liberal pundits who disapprove of how Santorum and his wife handled the death of their infant son in 1996. The Santorums reportedly took the child home from the hospital so that their other children could see, and bond with, their baby brother. This concern was raised by Alan Colmes, who later apologized, and by Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson , who, as far as I know, did not later apologize. I don’t think that this incident tells us much about Rick Santorum’s fitness for the presidency. In the first place, I don’t happen to agree that this behavior was all that strange. The Santorums believed that their infant son was a real human being , and so a member of their family . They wanted their family to mourn for him in a manner that was more than perfunctory, and so they behaved accordingly. More than that, they are believing, practicing Catholics. They probably believe, therefore, that their departed son is part of the Communion of Saints — the faithful of the Church united in this life and the next. They may therefore have been especially interested in establishing a real bond with the child, so that they and their other children will bear the son in mind continually, hoping to be reunited with him in heaven. Even if it were weird, however — something I don’t grant but will entertain for the sake of argument — it still would tell us nothing about Santorum’s fitness for the presidency. Losing a child at birth is a traumatic experience, especially in this day and age when it is so rare. It would not be surprising if an otherwise steady and normal person who experienced such a loss might behave strangely and then return to his steady and normal self. Let us suppose that as a result of the death of a child a man had spent a solid month going to his study each night and getting drunk. Or simply refused to talk about it with anybody. These reactions would be strange, but I am sure that neither Colmes nor Robinson nor any of Santorum’s other liberal detractors would dare to say that such behavior told against him as a potential president. They would instead probably say that it was nobody else’s business — and they would be right. While these criticisms tell us nothing of value about Santorum, they do tell us something about the people making them. Many contemporary American liberals are constantly admonishing their fellow citizens to be open, to be tolerant, not to judge things that they don’t understand. This Santorum-bashing is simply the latest piece of evidence that these calls for tolerance are pure hypocrisy. Their tolerance and understanding are only for positions with which they already agree, and so are not real tolerance and understanding at all. These are nothing but a political weapons used to disarm their opponents in the culture wars. And, just as their supposed tolerance is a political weapon, so is their supposed concern for what is normal. Consider the following example: When he lived in Chicago, Barack Obama was a member of a church that was, by all present-day American standards, well outside the mainstream. Or, to use Eugene Robinson’s more blunt but less polite language, it was weird. It says something, something weird, about Obama that he would choose to remain associated with such a church, and its enraged pastor, for years and years. Yet for the likes of Colmes and Robinson this strange passage in the President’s life is not to be mentioned. … Visit link: Is Santorum Weird? Or are his Critics Hypocrites? Please click the link to read the reflection on today’s Gospel: It is a mistake to try to discover which was the Star of Bethlehem January 6 th , Feast of the Epiphany [The wise men] having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which they had seen in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was. And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. (Matthew 2:9-10) It is generally considered a more conservative and traditional position to believe that the star of Bethlehem was a real and historical star. Indeed, even many Catholics are excited about recent so-called “scientific” data which seeks to determine which star or astronomical event was the historical star of Bethlehem. Thus, we might be surprised to realize that the overwhelming consensus of the Catholic tradition – from the Church Fathers, through the Scholastic Doctors (including St. Thomas Aquinas), and up to the great theologians of the counter-reformation period – maintains that the star of Bethlehem was not a real star. It was not an event in the heavens at all; that is, it was not in outer-space, but was another sort of reality. Indeed, the star of Bethlehem was a light brightly shining but low to the earth and within our atmosphere… Read more from the original source: It is a mistake to try to discover which was the Star of Bethlehem Link: iWitness: Ke nako… It is time to come down from the mountain! For the last four weeks, the world’s attention has been focused on South Africa as it played host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but that month in the spotlight was preceded by years of preparation and will now have a lasting impact on the lives of the people of South Africa. Rampe Hlobo SJ suggests that South Africans have been the real winners of the World Cup – how has the tournament been a turning point for the country, and in fact the whole of Africa?… Link: iWitness: Ke nako… It is time to come down from the mountain! Michael Voris, RealCatholicTV.com
Go directly to: Catholic Beverages: Moored by Reason and Time It’s the day after the day after the day when some may have consumed too much wine and spirits, Champagne and beer, so I offer a reflection on drinking what Dr. Royal has called “Catholic beverages.” I grew up attending a Methodist church where “communion” was received irregularly on the first Sunday of the month and involved a circular silver tray in the center of which was a glass dish with cut-up pieces of leavened bread. Around the tray’s perimeter were small holes in which were tiny paper cups of grape juice. The tray was passed – rather like the collection plate – aisle-by-aisle, person-to-person: Take a piece of white bread; drink a little Welch’s. Then I became Catholic and got real wine – not to mention the Real Presence! – although not good wine: not a hardy red but something white and sweet. (I understand about the protection of altar linens, but cheap Sauterne?) Wine used in religious ceremony is an ancient practice: sacramental and safe. Unless you had a deep well source, for most of human history it could be death to drink water. There were purification systems (heating, filtration) as far back as 2000 B.C., and a reason the Dark Ages really were a bit dark is because much of this knowledge disappeared, only to reappear in the middle of the nineteenth century, thanks to the likes of Pasteur and Lister… Read the original: Catholic Beverages: Moored by Reason and Time Link: Re: Nelson’s Retirement Has a Downside for Pro-Lifers Mark points out a real problem when he laments one-party identification for the cause against abortion. But Nelson’s retirement is not so much a contributing factor, but the recognition of a long-past occurrence. When he voted for Obamacare, THAT (if not earlier) is when this pro-life Democrat ceased to exist, and likewise for similar others. Having pro-lifers only in the R party is tragic. But having phonies claim to be “pro-life Democrats” while acting against the pro-life cause is worse. Perhaps Thom would coin these faux cross-party supporters “pro-lyfe.” At the moment, they are an even greater risk to the pro-life movement than polarization, and perhaps are an even bigger obstacle to obtaining real cross-party efforts. If we THINK there are pro-life Democrats, there’s less reason for anyone to work to encourage actual pro-life Democrats to exist. … Link: Re: Nelson’s Retirement Has a Downside for Pro-Lifers Visit link: Regarding Income Inequality We’ve heard a lot of talk lately about income inequality. I fail to see how my rich neighbor’s income has much of anything to do with what I ought to be making, unless it’s that his income drives up the market price of labor. Of course that would assume a free labor market, which is not what we have, but I digress. The point is that income inequality does not, of itself, constitute an injustice. One of the biggest problems for American families these days is that median incomes have been declining for years—in fact, since well before the Great Recession began. This is a problem regardless of whether “The 1%” is making or losing money. That most people are making less today (in real dollars) than they were 10 years ago, also undercuts the “rising tide raises all boats” rationale that is often used to dismiss income inequality. … Visit link: Regarding Income Inequality Michael Voris, RealCatholicTV.com
See more here: Dear Santa: All I Want for Christmas is the Truth! Our nephew Noah, 7, has a real thing about Santa. Last year he was thrilled when he and his mom had breakfast with the jolly bearded fellow at the zoo in their hometown. The photos tell the tale. The first shows Noah with a look of ecstasy on his face as he perches on Santa’s … See more here: Dear Santa: All I Want for Christmas is the Truth! |
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