Wednesday, August 30, 2006

I Can Only Imagine - HIS Music Video

Women Ministers

In the video below, a potential woman minister was asked by church administrators in her job interview - "Was she into using 'god-she language'?" She was surprised by that questioning, felt that it didn't feel right and decided that she should not go to that church. Now, compare this to my previous posting-Awesome Nuns in Hollywood.

Awesome Nuns in Hollywood

For 56 Years, Battling Evils of Hollywood With Prayer
21 Cloistered Dominions
Sister Mary Pia, as pale and innocent as an uncooked loaf, prays for all of them, while knowing virtually nothing about them. There is nothing ironic about this, she believes: “One doesn’t need to be of it to know of it.”
See the video. You can say that again, Sister!

The sisterhood is a dying way of life in America. Forty years ago,the United States had about 180,000 nuns. Today there are perhaps 70,000. Fewer than 6,000 are younger than 50. There are estimated to be about 5,000 cloistered, contemplative nuns, a piece of women’s history that may be on the way out.


Reasons for the collapse can be traced to the mid-1960’s: the flowering of the women’s movement, which broadened opportunities beyond secretary, housewife, nurse, teacher and nun. But the Roman Catholic Church unintentionally inflicted damage on itself when it ratified the Second Vatican Council.
“Basically it said that religious women were no more holy than lay women,” said Sister Patricia Wittberg, an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. “It was devastating.”

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

More End Life Issues

Choosing a ‘God Squad,’ When the Mind Has Faded
Would you want your tax dollars to pay for dialysis for a patient with irreversible brain damage? In 1972, when Congress agreed to use Medicare money to finance dialysis for patients with end-stage kidney failure, this question had never come up.

Pharmacogenetics at St. Jude's Hospital

Saving Lives With Tailor-Made Medication

Genomic testing & the Catholic Church-from the USCCB-Critical Decisions:
Genetic Testing and its Implications
and the Vatican.

Concealing and Lying

Is there a difference? What happened to doctors and surgeons with morals?
Medical Errors? Patients May Be the Last to Know

Archbishop Dolan's Response to 3 Issues

Don’t miss the bigger picture

Archbishop Dolan responded to 3 serious issues that affect his diocese. This link may drop out after this week so check Archbishop Dolan's archive of past columns here:

Regarding Call to Action and their meeting in Milwaukee he states:
The third issue has to do with the “Call to Action” conference scheduled for Milwaukee this November. As you may recall, this group, based in Chicago, has been meeting in Milwaukee for decades. This group was actually initiated by the bishops 30 years ago, and started off asking some legitimate questions.

But they have gotten way off track. In this case as well, I inquired some years ago what impact this annual meeting has on the archdiocese, and was told, almost none. Our Catholic people, I was advised, recognize that this is a group that has taken stands totally outside the bounds of church teaching.

Unfortunately, as stated in the official program of this year’s conference, the leadership of that group has decided to include in the program an invitation to invalidly ordained “priests and bishops” to “celebrate a liturgy.”

Here again it becomes my teaching responsibility to state clearly that such an action would make any claim of Catholic identity by the group to be misleading. Faithful Catholics attending these sessions would only promote division and disunity rather than genuine renewal in the church.

People ask why I “allow” Call to Action to meet in Milwaukee. This group, of course, hardly asks my permission, and pays little attention to what any bishop, including the Bishop of Rome, has to say.

Enough of this. Why do I write about it anyway? Because, too often, we are tempted to become myopic, with our only focus on juicy issues that disrupt and distract us from the mission of the Gospel. Don’t get me wrong, I am always open to dialog, and, as I have learned especially during these past four years as your archbishop, one’s temperament for patience grows as one’s leadership role expands.


"Veil tip" to Dom.

Catholic Charities San Francisco

Catholic agency finds way out of adoption ban
Alliance with other groups gets around same-sex parent issue


The ensuing solution commits $250,000 of the agency's resources annually -- a more than fourfold increase of its previous $60,000 annual commitment to adoption placements.

"There will be critics who say that kids will still be placed with same-sex couples,'' said Cahill, who is planning "an aggressive recruitment'' of potential adoptive parents among the archdiocese's parishes. "That is true -- the largest potential number of adoptive parents in the foster care system are gay and lesbian couples. But this is what we are supposed to be doing. This is the work of the church.


Really? Planning "an aggressive recruitment"? Do you discriminate against heterosexual couples that are following the 10 Commandments and Church teaching? This is deplorable and the new archbishop, George Niederauer, should check into this "aggressive recruitment"!

On this day of the memorial of St. John the Baptist's death-I say repent!

So they came to John and said to him, 'Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you testified, here he is baptizing and everyone is coming to him.' John answered and said, 'No one can receive anything except what has been given him from heaven. You yourselves can testify that I said that I am not the Messiah, but that I was sent before him. The one who has the bride is the bridegroom; the best man, who stands and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine has been made complete. He must increase; I must decrease'

John 3:26-30

Papal Letters Returned to Polish National Archives

13th-Century Papal Letters Returned

Genoa has a New Archbishop

Pope Names New Archbishop of Genoa

'Do Over' in Jerusalem-World Pride Gay Parade

Russian Jews Urge Jerusalem to Ban Gay Parade, Warn of Possible Attacks

Monday, August 28, 2006

St. Augustine & Culture Wars

Today on St. Augustine's feast day...listen to Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Boston College speaking at Calvin College-"How to Win the Culture War"
I am sure most have either read his book or heard him speak.

His writings. His talks.

You too, can become a saint! NOW SAY IT-"I can become a saint"!

Now-go out to know, love, and serve GOD Our Father!

Proclaim 'your fiat' BOLDLY AND STRONG!