Bishops’ houses for sale all over the place.

Phila. goes for $10 mill to SJ-run St. Joseph U.

Sic transit gloria.

Have to pay for abuse cases, says Natl. Catholic Reporter

Big O. not so big with an iPhone, it turns out.

Wha’? The guy who can write speeches better than his writers? etc. Say not so.

Hey, everybody, how much Chi Teacher Union $ goes to which pols? Should ask, which Democrats?

With teachers, as with any other union, it’s not the money, it’s the principle of the thing.

Now about that pay schedule . . .

Young families preach to me, especially big ones like ours::

Thank God for the crying babies, the squirmy toddlers, and the chatty preschoolers. They are a beautiful sign that our Church is full of life!

Especially at Latin masses, where parents soothe them, help them with prayerbook, nurse them, take them out, or one of the older ones does, when they grow impossible.

For strike-free schools charters are fine, but vouchers are finer. However:

Obama and his party have never been fans of vouchers. Why? They contend that vouchers would hurt the public school system. Vouchers allow parents who can’t afford private school to remove their children from public schools in order to get a better education. Well, isn’t that what the president and those in his party do themselves by sending their children to private school? Only they don’t need the government’s help.

It’s about unions, stupid. And even charter schools receive suspicious support, as from the Dem Organization, United Neighborhood Organization being a major charter operation.

UNO’s Juan Rangal [sic: Rangel] . . . has long profited from UNO’s clout with Chicago’s corporate elite and Mayor Richard M. Daley. The ongoing expansion of the UNO charter schools in Chicago is coupled with the national expansion of UNO thanks to the Obama administration and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who promoted UNO’s charter schools (and abetted UNO’s lack of transparency) during the years Duncan served as Chief Executive Officer of Chicago’s public schools (2001 – 2008). Substance photo by George N. Schmidt.

Schmidt being long-time teacher union activist and publicist. Charter schools can also work for Dems, we see.

. . . harrassing pro-life walkers in Spain. Nasty people.

Chi Trib-LA Times story about the latest job report has this which I heard almost verbatim last night on Fox, from its liberal-woman-in-the-middle on the panel:

The political impact of the report likely will be muted because most voters already have strongly held views of where the economy stands.

It’s the meme that’s going around, apparently. For the lemmings.

On the other hand, lower in the Trib-LAT story, we find:

If the jobs report had come in stronger, it could have given an additional boost to Obama followingthe Democratic convention . . .

That’s interesting.  No impact from bad news, but good could have had impact.  This be something worth pursuing.  Or pooh-pooing maybe.

Cardinal Dolan at Dem convention, praying, got f-bombed a lot.

He’s against being required to buy abortifacients and birth control pills. Wrong thing to be against.

If on the other hand, he’d come out vs. racism or sexism, he’d be a hero. Thing is, there are popular and unpopular sins — for condemnation purposes, that is. Some unpopular ones are fornication, bribery of public officials, vote-stealing, political corruption in general. By the way, wouldn’t that be a terrific bishops’ letter to all of us, condemning vote-stealing? I’d read that one.

Featuring people with fixation on final solutions.

If I incorporated for business purposes, would I be forbidden to profit? Silly people who want to change the world. Maybe truly compassionate about others’ suffering, or angry about their own, or espousing radical Christianity, who knows?

I am not in favor of throwing baby out with the bath, which to greater or lesser degree many reformers and saviors of society do, one way or another, succumbing to spite even if starting from honest concern.

BEWARE, and I do mean especially you religious people.