Picky, picky . . .
In this story, Breitbart offers a surprising item, referring to its contents.
. . . the embattled Virginia Democrat’s extreme remarks about proposed legislation . . . would allow fourth-trimester abortions, according to a report.
Thing is, how many mesters make a trimester?
How many mistakes has CNN made that favor Republicans? Why do the mistakes almost always seem to be anti-Republican?
Remember the early days of blogging, the gatekeeper theory, that said there was no trusting those un-professional people in their pajamas?
What the heck happened? Or had it already happened, hence the zest (market) even then for pajama-clad reportage and commentary?
Yesterday at end of mass.
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
The faithful were stunned at the sheer acuity of what the cardinal had to say:
— He was the organizer of the coming synod of bishops about clerical abuse.
— It would be about protecting children.
— You could learn more at a website.
— He was sorry about abuse.
— We are in his prayers.
It was short! Two minutes. It said nothing about abuse of seminarians by bishops. It left out various other accusations and recriminations. People were cheered up by what he said.
From Fr George W. Rutler’s ‘Weekly Column’ The mayor of a French town commissioned a statue of the rationalist Emile Zola and, intent on provocation, he ordered that the bronze for it be from the bells of a church. Similarly, Governor Andrew Cuomo chose to sign into law our nation’s most offensive abortion bill on the anniversary of the Roe […]
via In Orwellian “Newspeak”: Abortion = Reproductive Health Act — Catholicism Pure & Simple
And yet the lefties want more govt. control (socialism). It’s the nag they are riding on.
Labor Market: The latest expectation-shattering jobs report isn’t a fluke. It’s another sign that President Trump’s economic policies are improving the lives of middle class families.
The 304,000 gain in jobs reported by the Labor Department was nearly twice the consensus estimate. And it comes after December’s expectation-busting gains.
There’s more. The jobs picture is so strong right now that it’s pulling people in who’ve been sitting on the sidelines.
How they complain about every little thing. They are the blind who would lead the blind.
Who am I to say?
One thing occurs to me: Let him or her who is without sin throw the first stone.
What’s with this poverty law center? they mean abortion-promotion center?
So, what is “HHS Watch,” Equity Forward’s first campaign project, watching? HHS Watch publishes opposition research on the Trump administration’s appointees, focusing on work they have done for social conservative groups, especially those smeared by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The campaign further attacks the administration appointees’ efforts to overturn provisions in Obamacare which compel religious dissenters to pay for birth control and abortifacient drugs.
Remember, you good guys: The enemy never sleeps.
The makers soften the blows a bit.
“The festival seems to be broadening its aperture a little bit this year,” said Van Toffler, co-founder of Gunpowder & Sky. “The movies are less intense than they have been in the past where sometimes a movie would end and you’d sort of want to blow your brains out.”
My life partner and I recently skipped two episodes of one festival of intensity, to see the last one and know how the mess ended, find ourselves increasingly in the market for interesting but not overly demanding.
Solving a small problem
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Kelsey J from Grand Rapids, MI:
It seems to me like a needless distraction. I can glad-hand Mrs Smith any time I want. On Sundays, I’m there to see Jesus. Is this uncharitable or disobedient?
Fr. R., :
The Sign of Peace is a distraction where it is presently situated in the Liturgy, especially if effervescent personalities wave and chat.
A patrician friend of mine, when I said Mass as he was dying, asked me to omit the Peace because it made his butler uncomfortable. I have used that as a sufficient excuse ever since, regardless of domestic arrangements.
God save the butler!
If done at all, it should be liturgical: greeting just the person next to you with a formal gesture. Influenza has a salutary effect because in flu season the Peace is often suspended.
Shame if it takes that.
The real fault with it is that it is…
View original post 109 more words
Catholics not only ones . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
. . . “the rise of externalism.”
He was Warren C. Young, in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, in which he asked “Whither Evangelicalism?” citing an earlier complaint, “The Failure of Evangelicalism,” in Eternity magazine, in which that author raised two “timely” criticisms.
Evangelicals have lost the true sense of worship, and the Christian life is measured far more often by external criteria rather than by a biblical and spiritual emphasis.
Young, a teacher at West Side of Chicago-based Northern Baptist Seminary, warned:
If, because of irreverence and externalism [attention to externals,esp. to an excessivedegree], Evangelicalism should be written off as an exhausted and empty thing, there may yet come a day when we shall find ourselves in the midst of a revival which some of us will not recognize as such, because it did not come out of our mold, and does not…
View original post 109 more words
Blithe Spirit 