Dr. George Tiller is dead

Dr. George Tiller, the infamous late-term abortionist also referred to as “Tiller the Killer” is dead.
He was shot while entering his church for services today.  Police have not yet released the identity of Tiller’s murderer, so we can only guess at his motive.  Tiller recently escaped his recent trial with an acquittal, but the state [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday

 
1.  Coming tomorrow (really, I mean it): pseudonyms!  They’ll be up there in the sidebar.  I got tired of working around my kids’ names, so here are the pseudonyms for the household occupants.  Oldest daughter: Diva.  Middle son: Crash.  Youngest daughter: Empress.  Yes, they can be sweet, loving, and nearly normal.  But on most days, these [...]

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Why Religious Orders Flourish

As I was wandering through the blogs I have come across and liked, I found an article referenced at The Opinionated Catholic about Clear Creek Monastery.  It reminded me of an article I saved from the local paper a month or so back, thinking, “Hmmph.  I’m going to have to blog about this at some [...]

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Finding Empathy

President Obama has found his “empathetic” judge, although he noticeably avoided the word “empathy” when discussing why he picked her (it doesn’t seem to have played well after the first time he tried it).
Judge Sonia Sotomayor sits on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  Looking at her decisions in Wikipedia, some seem reasonable, some do [...]

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Secession

Not having grown up in the South, secession was something of a dirty word.  When my “History of the South” professor at the Naval Academy discussed the causes of the Civil War, they included the end of the predominance of the South in national politics due to the influx of immigrants to the North and [...]

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Where do parental rights end?

Well, the latest fleeing-parent-and-child saga is over.  If you didn’t see it, there was a teenager from Minnesota who fled with his mom to avoid cancer chemotherapy.  The mom and child returned voluntarily, charges were dropped, and the parents now say that they agree that their son needs chemo.
Apparently, the mom joined some church that doesn’t believe [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Notre Dame

I was getting together this collection of images of the Virgin Mary earlier this week, and lo and behold!, there were seven (sort of… I couldn’t pick just one of the Chinese madonnas).  Well, duh, guess what I though of?

(Click on the logo to visit Jen at ConversionDiary.com and check out everyone else’s 7 Quick [...]

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Can you say “Orwellian”?

There are quite a few habits I still hold from my Naval Academy days.  One of these is the daily paper.  As plebes (freshman, at normal universities), we were required to subscribe to a paper.  I got the Washington Post.  (If nothing else, it had three pages of comics.)  Unlike my classmates, I didn’t read [...]

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Notre Dame: Where are the bishops?

A few dozen pro-life Notre Dame students skipped their own graduation to attend the alternate ceremony, with Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life giving the address.  In the arena, a few people tried to interrupt President Obama’s speech.  Most of those present, however, chanted, “Yes we can!” to drown out the protesters.  Fr. Jenkins, [...]

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How to spot a really good friend

Tricia (she of “Kathy is Martha Stewart on crack!” fame) moved with her family to her husband’s hometown in Nebraska last Saturday.
One of the other remaining couples in our little chatting circle at church commented something along the lines of, “Shouldn’t we be wearing black?” at church yesterday.
As Tricia was packing up her son from his [...]

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