Reblogged from Blithe Spirit: I, Bowman in Wed. Journal today. Married priesthood first, women’s second, for strategic reasons if nothing else: The married priest is more likely to see the woman’s viewpoint, and a married priesthood is a much more realistic goal. Respondeth one John Butch Murtagh from Oak Park to the first part: Nice [...]
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Reblogged from Blithe Spirit: Responded last week to especially provocative local-paper column about the HHS mandate, “Who controls birth control?” But no letters in the paper this week. Thin paper and all. A pity, that. Here’s my letter, which addresses some more than parochial concerns: 2/17/2012 3:54:03 PM Editor: Ken Trainor, my excellent editor for [...]
To the ramparts, cries Bishop Bruskewitz: Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz has issued a blistering letter calling on Roman Catholics in the Lincoln Diocese to fight a federal decision requiring all employers to provide health insurance that pays for birth control, female sterilization procedures and “the morning after” pill. He socks it to Obama’s secy of health [...]
Hit the light fantastic last night on Milwaukee Ave., where a bar called Cole’s had art pieces hung about, including two out-sized, stylized fish hooks by Jim Bowman Jr. — his first metal-sculpting in two years. Nice stuff, stylized and stylish, I say, in which judgment I am a fairly reliable source, in habit of [...]
Wild dream: Chicago is proud of her pregnant colored people, says GW Bush in dream by blogger in which W is doing a Jimmy Carter-type baby-sitter stint, putting eight infants to bed one after the other, with four more to go, talking about it on TV. German missile makers: “Camaraderie reinforced by secrecy created a [...]
At Dominican U in RF last night, Robert Hanning from Columbia U. on confession in the middle ages. Title led me to expect a socio-cultural explication but he was about close reading of Bocaccio and Chaucer. I found the former heavy-handed in his slashing attack on church practice, producing cartoon characters — opera boffo? — none [...]
Yesterday an editorial about Opus Dei hosting lib RC (“heterodox”) Cokie Roberts at its DC bookstore led to cancellation of said talk-diva. But old-world defensiveness delayed things: The Washington Times called the Catholic Information Center on deadline Tuesday seeking comment and asking if the Cokie Roberts event had been cancelled, but we were repeatedly sent [...]
This fellow stops in the middle of his busy day to do a Jesuit thing. The Jesuit Daily Examen is an excellent tool which I have been using for over 3 years. I have 5 scheduled “prayer stops” on my calendar of 2-5 minutes each which force me to stop, reflect and pray during my [...]
The parish bulletin editor has taken to using “C.E.” (Common Era) for “A.D.” (anno domini, year of the Lord) and “B.C.E.” (Before the Common Era) for “B.C.” (Before Christ). This is madness. Christians are to conform to the usage — in their own church bulletins — of people who don’t believe in the Lord as [...]
