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George Tiller did evil things, but so do all of us. His life was precious, and Rober P George pretty much covers it:
For the sake of justice and right, the perpetrator of this evil deed must be prosecuted, convicted, and punished. By word and deed, let us teach that violence against abortionists is not [...]
Richard Stith has a fantastic short post over at Mirror of Justice, with the best single line about current abortion dialogue I have seen in some time:
Reducing the numbers of those who need protection is no substitute for protecting those who need protection
Mirror of Justice: on abortion reduction as common ground.
A delightful must read.
Conversion Diary: A name for baby Joy – The diary of a former atheist.
I cannot read such things without my faith being strengthened. Thank you Jennifer.
A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon a Facebook group prodding Sean Hannity to keep his promise to undergo waterboarding for charity. They describe themselves as follows:
Sean Hannity recently volunteered on his show to be waterboarded to raise money for the U S Troops and their families. I think this is a laudable cause [...]
The President’s Director of the Office of management and Budget defends the proposal to reduce the tax deduction on on charitable contributions with the following:
Third, there’s a question of fairness. Non-profits play a critical role in our society (indeed, I have worked at several of them in the past). But let’s look [...]
After quoting from John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae, Carl Olson at the Ignatius Press Blog lays out the true Catholic teaching about the primacy of conscience, and its limits, in Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: “I am a pro-adultery Catholic because my Catholic faith tells me I can be.”:
That’s heavy stuff. And [...]
This site has been around a few months now, and today’s entry is perhaps my favorite:
You’ll learn something by visiting daily, plus its worth at least a smile every day, plus the occasional laugh out loud moment.
LOLSaints | Saints with a Smile.
As government becomes ever more intrusive, it inevitably discovers that it can accept no rivals for the people. Any entity that announces universal truths and morality will just get in the way:
via Bolivian president rejects criticism by bishops, calls for founding of ‘new church’.
President Evo Morales of Bolivia said last Thursday in Brazil during the [...]
As an update to the preceding post, Amy Welborn has updated her notice of her husband’s death with the following:
Many have asked what they can do of a material or concrete nature. All I can say is to simply buy his books. Not from me, because I am in no position to fill orders, but [...]
Wow, just terrible.
Amy Welborn’s husband Michael Dubruiel passed away — suddenly and unexpectedly — yesterday. It is a tribute to Amy’s writing on her blog that this news hit me like a punch in the gut, even though I’ve never met either her or her husband, never corresponded, never read their books, and also [...]
