You realize that while you were experiencing this lifetime of Catholic practice, I was on the Junior High Sunday School Retreat at Panacea Falls. My technical and canonical knowledge about relics would not fill a thimble. Still, there are two in my house. Both of them came to us on the day we were . . . . Continue Reading »
Ready or not, here it comes: President Obama and the Democrats in Congress intend to completely change the health care system of the United States without any meaningful democratic debate. Rather than hold extensive hearings, allow a full airing of one of the most extensive and expensive changes in . . . . Continue Reading »
Browsing around, I spotted a link to a Woman’s Day article with the headline 8 Good-for-You Indulgences. And a question recurred to me—one that perhaps you can answer, Sally.A friend of mine just made a little chunk of money betting that Citibank stock wouldn’t fall any lower—a . . . . Continue Reading »
There it is in black and white: Canon 1190 §1—“It is absolutely forbidden to sell sacred relics.” But the Code of Canon Law doesn’t seem to say that that you can’t buy them. Nor does it say that you can’t sell the reliquary in which a relic happens to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Deep Ecology Movement wants to reduce the human population to 500 million. The genocidal implications of this idea are obvious—although DEs usually say they would like to see it done via voluntary birth control (fat chance), or perhaps a pandemic will do the trick. This is not only a . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve gotten a few random emails about POSTMODERN CONSERVATISM either being an oxymoron or some bad joke. Well, it can be that, I guess. No doubt some believe that postmodern conservatism is conservatism gone stylish, contemporary, young, beautiful, metrosexual, pop cultural, and . . . . Continue Reading »
This has happened before and it will happen again. A teenager has apparently committed suicide using the death information contained in Derek Humphry’s book Final ExitWho is Derek Humphry? He founded the Hemlock Society—now Compassion and Choices—with his second wife Ann Wickett, . . . . Continue Reading »
In “Help for Navigating Health Care,” San Francisco Chronicle reporter Victoria Colliver interviews a woman named Adrianna Boden, who had a difficult medical experience, and offers tips on being a good medical consumer. From the story:The Empowered Healthcare Community, formed by a . . . . Continue Reading »
Landscape artist Martha Kelly — who, totally coincidentally you understand, happens to be married to my brother — has for years been painting the trees, fields and sky of the Southern lowlands we both call home. Last fall, however, she began working on a series of oil-on-paper images . . . . Continue Reading »
Commenting on the threat to prosecute CIA interrogators and Bush Administration officials for “torture,” Marty Peretz of the New Republic says ” I Don’t Lose Sleep Over Terrorists Being Walled .” Peretz thinks there are too “many Democrats who want to keep George . . . . Continue Reading »
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