Day: August 24, 2013

Ascension’s Fr O’Malley spares five minutes for Catholic New World . . .

Oak Park Chronicles

. . . and comes up looking very good. For instance, on being a priest:

I love being a priest. Theres nothing Id rather do. Ive never doubted it one day of my life. I thank God every day for calling me to be his priest. I feel for my buddies who are torn with what they should do.

He looks like he loves it, and that can be a tonic for a parishioner.

He and the interviewer, Dolores Madlener, handled his female-priest history very nicely:

I think I have a good relationship with Cardinal George. Hes called me in a few times. We talked about women priests, and I had to apologize in the bulletin for promoting that, but we had a good discussion. Hes very gracious and always has a beverage there for me. We may not agree on a lot, but we can talk about it. When…

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Wow! Straight talk from a Jesuit about the Muslim Bro-hood

Their ‘hood is no place to be if you’re a Christian, says

Father Henri Boulad, an 82-year-old Jesuit who ministers in Egypt, denounced Western support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement associated with ousted President Mohamed Morsi.

Their militias

sowed terror among the whole population of Egypt: killings, abductions, kidnappings, ransom demands, abductions and rape of girls forcibly married to Muslims, he said. No reaction from the West.

The West has its eyes on Muslim sensibilities.

Priests and Christians attacked and killed–including children of tender age–for the sole reason that they were Christians, Father Boulad continued. No Western denunciation appeared which might be accused of Islamophobia, which today is the crime of crimes.

As for the coup that got Western shorts in a bunch,

Faced with the Armys power grab, the West immediately cried coup détat, he added. If it had been a coup détat, it was a peoples coup, rather than military one. The Army had merely acquiesced to the will of the people. The people were fed up with a president who had betrayed, flimflammed and hoodwinked them, and they reacted with a survival reflex, calling for his departure.

Jihad Watch has the full account.

Want time in Disneyland? Go to college.

Off goes the Prez-ident. Campuses beckon:

Another school year beckons, which means it’s time for President Obama to go on another college retreat. “He loves college tours,” says Ohio University’s Richard Vedder, who directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. “Colleges are an escape from reality. Believe me, I’ve lived in one for half a century. It’s like living in Disneyland. They’re these little isolated enclaves of nonreality.”

In general, he loves adoring, manipulable audiences, right?