Meditations outside an abortion clinic (part 2)

So, as I said, yesterday, five women decided to leave the abortion clinic.  About a dozen didn’t.
It can be discouraging.  You remind yourself of Mother Teresa’s comment, “God doesn’t call us to be successful.  He calls us to be faithful.”  You hope and pray that, at least, maybe these women will look for healing and [...]

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Meditations outside an abortion clinic (part 1)

So, there I am, standing outside an abortion clinic.  It wasn’t my first time there, but I had only talked to one person going in (who ignored me).  Mostly, I had stood and prayed.
However, the coordinator was late.  When I got there, one other volunteer was already praying, alone, on the curb in front of the clinic.  [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Waiting for Spring

It’s been a rough winter.  Maybe it was just the election, the economy, etc.  I don’t know.  But it’s finally getting a little warmer, and I am hesitantly optimistic that we’ve seen the last of the frigid weather. 
1.  I’m sure we’ll see our last frost the day before my greenhouse plastic finally shows up.  I [...]

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Red Envelope Project

Ok, we’re having a really, really great parish mission (the first one I think I’ve ever really enjoyed… go figure, it’s apparently the first one actually scheduled by the new (and very doctrinally solid) director of adult education).
As a result, however, I have neglected the blog… and will continue to for a few days, although [...]

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Follow the money

Our local paper managed to avoid drastic doses of gloom-and-doom this Sunday.  The Parade section, though, had its annual top 10 of world dictators.  Yeah, whatever, they’re awful and we’ve heard all of this before.
As I skimmed, though, I noticed something disconcerting.
We’re funding way too many of these people.  Some less than others, but nobody [...]

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We are at war… you might as well say so

Democrats and Republicans have a similar problem lately.
Both groups only selectively acknowledge who they are at war with, or even if they’re fighting something.
New members of the Obama administration are pushing political correctness into political blindness.  Not only are we not going to call it the “War on Terror” anymore, now we aren’t even supposed to [...]

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Notice: The Campaign is OVER

I would laugh, if this wasn’t so sad.
The first hundred days aren’t even over, and President Obama has exceeded all expectations for amateurish, petty, pro-abortion behavior.
He gave the head of state of our best and oldest ally (PM of Great Britain) a set of “classic” American movies.  The PM’s office wisely neglected to mention the [...]

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Mob Guilt

I repeatedly find myself thinking that it is a horribly sad, sad commentary on our society that the old “moral conundrums” that ethics classes liked to pose are becoming reality.  Remember the one about, “If everyone can be really, really happy, but this happiness is bought by the continual torture of a perfectly innocent child [...]

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The Real Question About Stem Cell Research

In the movie Amistad, there is a scene where the two abolitionists trying to get a group of slaves freed (they had mutinied and killed their Spanish captors on the voyage from Africa to Cuba, then steered the ship north and were picked up off of New England) are confronted by a somewhat seedy-looking lawyer.  [...]

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Monday Randomness

Well, I missed the “7 quick takes Friday”, so here, instead, is Monday randomness.
1.  Since when did the Sunday paper become the time for gloom and doom?  Our local paper seems to think that, since people spend more time with their Sunday paper, it is their duty to beat us over the head to educate [...]

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