3 June 2012
A number of parishes have taken to inserting Archbishop Schnurr’s insomniac’s cure of a vocations prayer into the Mass, usually right after the petitions.
I’m thinking that ‘ain’t allowed.
(I’m also thinking, this being the AOC, most of the powers-that-be won’t give a rat’s hind-end.)
If anyone has pertinent information from the GIRM or other authoritative sources, i.e., not a memo from the Worship office, feel free to post something in the comment box.
2 June 2012
“The labor demonstrators, now an almost-daily occurrence in Madrid and other economically-devastated southern European cities lambast austerity and budget cuts as the primary cause for their current national crisis. But longer-term, the biggest threat to the European Union has less to do with government policy than what is–or is not–happening in the bedroom.”
“Without a major shift in policies that favor families in housing or tax policies, and an unexpected resurgence of interest in marriage and children, Spain and the rest of Mediterranean face prospects of a immediate decline every bit as profound as that experienced in the 17th and 18th Century when these great nations lost their status as global powers and instead devolved into quaintlocales for vacationers, romantic poets and history buffs.”
“Long before that happens, today’s Mediterranean folly could drive the rest of Europe, and maybe even the world, into yet another catastrophic recession.”
2 June 2012
Those who merely drive past wind-farms on the highway probably think they are cool to look at. Those who live near them, however, can’t stand them. The noise they make is like the deep, reverberating bass of a passing car driven by some thug with the radio on too loud. The car will eventually go away, but the noise from the wind-farm keeps thwumping your house every couple of seconds all day, and all night, every day.
When the Ohio Supreme Court gave the green light to the construction of a giant wind farm near Urbana despite many procedural infirmities in the supposedly-public permitting process, common sense was confined to the dissenting opinions. The most enjoyable of these, surprisingly, came from the court’s most liberal justice, Pfeifer:
When windmill welfare ends, the companies that build windmills, dependent as they are on government largesse and regulation, will disappear. Then what? Ohio’s public utilities do not own the windmills—they are just forced to purchase the power generated from them—and will thus be under no obligation to decommission them. Windmills will become relics, 492-foot-tall white elephants, monuments to our quixotic quest for alternative energy. One such monument would do the trick; 70 are too many for Champaign County.
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I suspect that this latest generation of windmills will go the way of the leisure suit: fashionable for a time, but ultimately causing us to say, “What were we thinking?” But there’s no Goodwill store in the world big enough to take them off our hands.
1 June 2012
There is a breaking story from Ireland that Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York paid off “pedophile” (i.e. homosexual) priests to leave the Church, when he was the Archbishop of Milwaukee.
Guess who happens to be the US bishop who is leading the American bishops’ fight against Obamacare? Now, any American with an ounce of awareness knows that Obama is nothing more than a ruthless Chicago thug and a George Soros puppet, so a little basic speculative arithmetic as to the timing of this is in order here: 2 (you fight my health care bill) + 2 (I send my operatives to dig up dirt on you) = 4 (I destroy your credibility in public).
1 June 2012
In his latest valiant defense of women against the depredations of conservatives, the president comes down decisively in support of the right to abort your gestating daughter so that you can try again next time for a son:
The Administration opposes gender discrimination in all forms, but the end result of this legislation would be to subject doctors to criminal prosecution if they fail to determine the motivations behind a very personal and private decision. The government should not intrude in medical decisions or private family matters in this way.
31 May 2012
For today’s feast on the traditional calendar, the Queenship of Mary, a previous comment from Archbishop Dennis Schnurr on devotion to Our Lady:
“We hold the Blessed Mother in such great esteem because of her great faith and because she played a key role in our redemption. Authentic Marian devotion is not a diversion; rather, it leads us to Jesus… I believe our faith lacks fullness if there is not an important place for the Blessed Mother in our prayer.”
31 May 2012
Two Danish brothers originally from Somalia have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, Denmark’s security service said Tuesday.
Danish? Come on!
In order for this story this story to be true, the plotters had to be fair-skinned guys named Hans and Bjorn, and they had to have been born during a visit by their mother to Somalia. Somehow we know, though, that the plotters, whose names are not given, were named Mohammad or Mustafa or. . . well, not Bjorn.
Danishness is not like Americanness. Danishness, like Dutchness or Swedishness or Germanness, is a nationality, an ethnicity, something dictated by your DNA, not by your mother’s whereabouts on the day of your birth. An ethnic Somali who is born in Denmark, who speaks Danish, and who reads Hans Christian Andersen is still not Danish.
30 May 2012
Brian Kemper, Director of Youth Outreach for Priests for Life is helping organize the White Rose Pro-life Summer Project that will target the infamous Dr. Martin Haskell abortion clinic in the Dayton suburb of Kettering, Ohio. This is the sole remaining abortion clinic in the Miami Valley. The name White Rose comes from a coalition of young people in Nazi Germany who dedicated themselves to educate Germans about the truth of the Nazi Holocaust. The White Rose Pro-Life Summer Project will:
…saturate Dayton, OH and the surrounding area with the message of life as we reveal the truth that abortion is the killing of innocent children.
We will have a peaceful, prayerful presence in front of Martin Haskell’s abortion clinic in Kettering, OH (a suburb of Dayton) every day. We will be bringing our pro-life witness, literature distribution and street ministry to events around the city, including baseball games, conventions and more…
The White Rose Pro-life Summer Project will run from June 1 – July 31, 2012 and you can come for any amount of time you choose. Please e-mail bryankemper@standtrue.com or call Bryan at 540-538-2581 for more information on joining us.
Host Housing – If you live near or in Dayton, OH and would like to host a White Rose Student for part of the summer you can e-mail us at info@standtrue.com
Please visit this group’s webpage (http://bryankemper.com/whiterose/) for more information and if possible, come up to Dayton and join this holy effort.
30 May 2012
Mitt Romney wrapped up the Republican nomination last night by winning the Texas primary.
To NPR, the only thing that was newsworthy about this important milestone was the fact that Donald Trump still believes that Obama was born in Kenya, a fact that supposedly overshadows anything Romney does. NPR led its top-of-the-hour roundup of leading news headlines this morning with this tendentious nonsense; after a sentence or two about Romney, the rest of the story was all about what a buffoon Trump is.
Listen to NPR’s “analysis” yourself. Maybe you can figure out how Romney’s clinching of the nomination presents an occasion for a story about Trump, but I sure can’t. The only point seems to be to impress upon listeners that, hey, Romney may be reasonable, but Republicans are still stupid.
Why the taxpayer should be forced to cough up money for NPR, or for any other arm of Obama’s re-election campaign, is beyond me.
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UPDATE: Here’s a Yahoo News item based on the same meme. The nexus with Trump appears to be that Trump appeared onstage with Romney last night in Las Vegas. That makes Trump’s birther-ism the real story, right?
29 May 2012
Shamelessly swiped from
Hint: The Catholic Church is not the answer to any of them.
1) Contraception is the one sin for which the penalty is national death; a sin for which there is no atonement.
2) The abandonment of the reproductive function is the common feature of all sexual perversions. We actually describe a sexual activity as perverse if it has given up the aim of reproduction and pursues the attainment of pleasure as an aim independent of it.
3) “Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. They make men and women reckless. Nature is relentless and will have full revenge for any such violation of her laws…If contraceptive methods become the order of the day nothing but moral degradation can be the result. As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and contraception, no matter how well-meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.”
4) “By accepting contraception, the world is trying …to form a civilized but non-Christian, mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization and save the world from suicide.”
Prior to 1930 all of Christendom condemned the use of contraception as an evil. But, then in 1930 the Anglican Church decreed that the use of contraception was permissible when the life of the mother was in danger. What periodical ridiculed that decision? Hint: It is still published today.
5) “Carried to its logical conclusions, (contraceptives)…would sound the death knell of marriage as a holy institution by establishing degrading practices which would encourage indiscriminate immorality: The suggestion that the use of legalized contraceptives would be ‘careful and restrained’ is preposterous.”
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Answers:
1) President Theodore Roosevelt
2) Freud
3) Ghandi
4) T.S. Eliot
5) The Washington Post-”Forgetting Religion” 3/22/1931
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