Caught in the act, one doing the other.

Cardinal Cupich, where are you?

via CBS Chicago

Question is: Are we to believe Woodward? At least no deathbed interview with this one. I don’t think there is.

Second question: In view of mainstream reporting since he got elected, what’s new about this, as reported?

Third question: Who cares, in view of our booming economy and at least some activity to solve the Iran, N. Korea and other problems, not to mention his huge success in judicial appointments etc. By their fruits you know them.

via The Washington Post

The success story whose origins very few dare to name.

American manufacturers are on a roll: Business conditions surged in August to a 14-year high, according to a a survey of industry executives.

The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index jumped to a 14-year high of 61.3% last month from 58.1% in July. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast the index to total 57.9%.

Readings over 50% indicate more companies are expanding instead of shrinking.

In 14 years! A biggie.

via  MarketWatch

In name-calling he trusts.

So shut up about it.

As for the beauty of silence, on the other hand, consider Cardinal Sarah’s The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, keeping mind that as one of Francis’ cabinet members — with liturgy as his portfolio — he has been rebuked publicly and privately by him on several occasions.

Why Francis puts up with him is explored and explained here.

via Under-attack Pope calls for ‘silence and prayer’

.  . . . the same who is subject of the hugely successful musical, for what that’s worth.

[A] constitutional framework that bids Congress shrink from ousting a president confronts a party that lusts for the chance. Which vindicates a warning from Alexander Hamilton.

Impeachment, Hamilton warned in the Federalist papers, is bound to “agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties.” It would “enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence and interest.”

Hamilton feared that the decision would be “regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”

See how the founders talked? 

It would be a first in our history, as we know. Worth it, you think?

via ‘Get Ready’ For the Perils Of Impeachment

Let us keep this in mind:

In 2002, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York was hired by the “full body of Catholic bishops of the United States” to “conduct research, summarize the collected data, and issue a summary report” on clergy abuse in the Catholic Church.

The report, titled “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010,” revealed that 81% of victims of Catholic priest abuse were male, and that 78% were pubescent or post-pubescent boys between the ages of 11-17 (51%  were between ages 11-14, 27% were between ages 15-17).

The remaining 22% were between 1-10.

Even as we look at it this way: perps were a minority of same-sex-attracted priests. So it’s a telling datum that you can cite without condemning or impugning the majority of them. 

Question, however: To what extent were they less likely than others to report the perps? Assuming reporting was at all common, which is surely the rub.

via Homosexuality in the Catholic Church

Gives wrong image of Muslim religion, says Ripon of Wisconsin.

via Did This Campus Acknowledges All Muslims are Terrorists?

Plain talk from the Anglican crossover, established 2012 by Benedict:

Bishop Steven Lopes, the ordinary of the US ordinariate, has said he doesn’t believe his fellow-bishops who profess ignorance of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s wrongdoing.

In a homily delivered on Sunday 19 August, Bishop Lopes said that one kind of response to the McCarrick revelations was “not good enough. It’s the parade of cardinals and bishops who have rushed to the television cameras, clutching their pectoral crosses, saying, ‘I knew nothing.’

“I don’t believe it, and I am one of them.”

One of the youngest, as it happens, of “the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter . . . equivalent to a diocese, created by the Vatican in 2012 for people nurtured in the Anglican tradition who wish to become Catholic.”

via CatholicHerald.co.uk

First thought on seeing this: B.S.

Second thought, reading this:

Cardinal Donald Wuerl has asked for forgiveness for his “errors in judgment” amid claims that he mishandled allegations of sexual abuse while a bishop.

If he thinks it’s errors or mishandling things, he still doesn’t get it.

Third thought: Lemme out o’ here!

Via CatholicHerald.co.uk

And thinks it’s time Sessions got a new job somewhere.

[Outspoken DC lawyer] Toensing said it would take “new leadership,” because Jeff Sessions is a nice man, but clearly not fit for the job.

“He’s a southern gentleman. He doesn’t know how to kill at all,” she explained.

After show host Lou Dobbs said Republicans are weak and helpless in the face of corruption.

Southern gentleman part fits.

via Victoria Toensing Slams John Huber’s ‘Sham,’ ‘Potemkin Investigation’