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Category: Blithe Spirit
I vouch for the author completely . . .
Word to the wise . . .
“Not really” is the new “No.” Or so I thought before running across this encyclopedic account.
While you (we) are at it (I?), consider the New Yorker cartoon by Edward Koren cited in Times Literary Supplement, 9/23/11 (but earlier in a textbook, Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering, by James L. Christian, originally published in 1973), in which the devil laments:
It’s getting much harder for me to distinguish good from evil. All I’m certain about is what’s appropriate and inappropriate.
Quoted by Rae Langton, reviewing Terry Eagleton’s On Evil (Yale).
Lady of house is not amused when I referred to our parish church as “that neighborhood emporium of grace and salvation.”
Another time, maybe, but I take her as Everywoman responding to my various bon mots and salvos in the cause of humor as antidote (temporary, yes, but what isn’t in our vale of tears?) to the slough of despond* that ever beckons, at least to THINKING PEOPLE.
* Not quite, if I go entirely with Bunyan. Despondency?
Where feminists went wrong
The mistakes of feminism, at Catholic and Feminist: Can You Be Both? (Part 2) » Catholic Sistas.
The first:
Secular feminists wanted women to be able to do as they pleased, with no regard for others. Essentially, they wanted to live as they perceived men living: putting themselves first. If men can pursue professional fulfillment at the expense of family, then women should be able to, too. If men can “have it all”…the family, the career, the personal pursuits…women should be able to, too. If men can indulge their sexual appetites through promiscuity, women should be able to, too. If men can walk away from their reproductive responsibilities, women should be able to, too.
There’s more where that came from . . . here.
Congress calling executive to task
It’s at the heart of the authoritarianism bent by the Obamacrats. Holder has been the cutting edge. If not, I’m open to candidates.
From: Enough Already: Contempt Process Begins Against Holder on Fast and Furious.
Correcting a papal headline
Prayer and Scripture reading help guide the faithful through life, Pope tells audience
That’s the head on a good story. But “tells,” as if he announces something? No, reminds. It’s an oldie and goodie and something worth repeating a lot.
Haunted Jesuits
Latest highly placed, high-profile Jesuit to resign under fire. Past misdeeds keep popping up.
This one departed his post as trustee of Boston College.
When reports of Donald McGuire’s sexual abuse of minors came to Fr. Bradley Schaeffer’s attention in 1993, no significant action was taken to remove McGuire, a renowned retreat leader and close friend of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, from his ministry. Fr. Schaeffer, who was the Jesuit Provincial in Chicago at the time, never contacted the police regarding the allegations; instead, he sent McGuire for rehabilitative treatment which reportedly ended early and in failure due to McGuire’s lack of cooperation with therapists.
Nairobi safe house
My favorite non-governmental organization, where doing good is the order of the day and where #2 Son and wife, who founded this place are now on-site and actually helping people. Safe House Caseworker.
