Blood Money and Health Care

My parents love the musical Jesus Christ: Superstar.  I hate it, for many reasons.  I could start with its denial of Jesus’ divinity, the hippie-like apostles complete with fawning feminine companions, the apparent sleeping arrangements of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, etc.  But, for all that, there are brief flashes of interesting bits.
One, in particular, came [...]

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The Attacks Aren’t Because Palin is Pro-Life

[NOTE: This is not my article.  It was sent in a Priests for Life e-newsletter, with the invitation to publish it in pro-life or group newsletters, etc.  So, I'm putting it up here.  I will somewhat disagree: I think Palin's pro-life views and the fact that she actually, visibly lives them are what attracts the vitriol.  [...]

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Blind Pro-Aborts

Kathleen Parker, the “conservative” columnist often cited as proof that even conservatives didn’t like Sarah Palin, has done it again on abortion.
For a long time, she said she was “pro-choice.”  Then she said she was sort of reconsidering.  (It seems a good place to note at this point in the discussion that a lot of [...]

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Catholic Campaign for Human Development Collection Next Week

The annual Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection is next week.  Traditionally collected in an extra collection the weekend before Thanksgiving, the CCHD mission statement claims:
Its mission is to address the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through transformative education.
The flyer in our church bulletin this week [...]

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Discussion in Hollywood

And, no, I certainly do not mean the week of “volunteerism”-oriented programming.  (or the related spate of comic strips on “volunteerism”)
I’m not into the crime or courtroom dramas, so I didn’t see this when it came out.  My husband watched it online after getting an e-mail from Priests for Life encouraging everyone to check it [...]

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Hitler and Mao

In case you haven’t heard, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn was caught on tape giving a high school commencement speech praising Mao as a wonderful political thinker.  Specifically, she said:
… the third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa– not often coupled with [...]

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The Abortion-Vaccine Link

Dear Politicalhousewyfe,
I wonder what your thoughts are on childhood vaccinations, mainly those that contain fetal cell lines. We have recently discovered this horror and are endeavoring to try to find alternative vaccines that are ethical, to date there are none for the MMR and Hep A. Our Parish Priest, who belongs to the FSSP advised [...]

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Hope for Journalism

After a nauseating campaign season full of fawning adoration and “thrills up my leg” from almost every major news outlet except Fox (which is now killing the other news channels in the ratings), you would have ample reason to sigh, “That’s it.  Really this time.  Journalism is dead.”
That tough, junkyard dog, snarling up the tree [...]

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Wiggle Room in the Health Care Bill

The problem with DVR’s is that you wind up watching live shows from Friday night on Sunday night.  Oh, well.
The World Over, EWTN’s weekly news program, had several people discussing the health care bill.  Thankfully, several Catholic groups that had seemed to support the bill currently being discussed have come out, clearly stating that they [...]

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Brain Tumors, Right and Left

Robert Novak died last week of a brain tumor.  Senator Ted Kennedy died Tuesday of a brain tumor.
CNN spent about the same amount of space on Novak’s involvement in the Valerie Plame case as it spent on Kennedy’s accident in Chappaquiddick.
Plame, I would note, survived without injury.
Kennedy’s car passenger died; CNN gave Kennedy’s version (about trying [...]

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