Tag Archives: Catholic

Shut Up and Fill the Prescription

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kill-bottle.pngThere has recently been a great push in the world of women's health to consider prescription birth control (oral contraceptives, IUD, DepoProvera, etc.) not only a "right" but indeed a necessity – the "standard of care," if you will. The fact that ever-growing numbers of registered pharmacists are refusing to fill legal prescriptions for such birth control has caught the attention of quite a few powerful pro-choice and "feminist" groups, who have made it their goal to force such professionals by law to fill all such prescriptions with no questions asked. As a practicing pharmacist, I would like to try to address this issue.

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A Very Fair Trade

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"While Anglicans — especially Anglican bishops or priests — becoming Roman Catholic after disagreeing with their community’s stands on ordaining women or openly gay men has made news, the movement of Catholic priests and laity to Anglicanism seldom makes headlines."

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"Anglicans who become Roman Catholic generally become very conservative [orthodox] Roman Catholics, while Roman Catholics who become Anglican tend to become very liberal [cacodox] Anglicans…"

(Fedora Tip: Curt Jester)

Sounds good to me. Both sides get what we want. Better yet, with a constant influx of heretics, the Anglican Communion will continue to destroy itself from within, leading to more their orthodox folks coming to Rome. 🙂

Attention, Tridentine Types

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tridentine_mass_1.jpgIt seems that a number of my readers are fans of the Tridentine mass. Some are rad-trads; others aren’t. I’m curious just how many of my readers attend indult masses. If you do, please leave a comment and/or add a pin to my Frappr map.

Heck, even if you don’t, you should still add a pin. 😉

Katelyn Sills Expelled!

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Remember Katelyn Sills?

"As of Saturday, October 29th, I was given official notice by express mail that I am expelled from Loretto High School. This was given completely without forewarning, without a meeting, and without a chance to say goodbye. My family is now seeking legal advice, and more details will follow."

Please leave her an encouraging comment. (Fedora TIp: Jimmy Akin)

Before someone else says it: Yes, I am aware of the irony here. Ms. Bain was presumably fired "without forewarning, without a meeting, and without a chance to say goodbye". I’m sure the Sills’ detractors will say that Katelyn’s expulsion is poetic justice. I wonder, though, if the irony might be lost on some of them. I wonder how many people are filled with glee as a result of this, ignorant of the hypocrisy of saying that a teacher shouldn’t be fired from a Catholic school for her manifest participation in grave sin, but a student should be expelled for publicly supporting her mother’s exposure of that teacher’s deeds. Then again, maybe nobody will think or say such things.

Yeah, and maybe I’m a Chinese jet pilot.

Update 11/02/05: Rick Lugari at De Civitate Dei has posted part of a letter that was sent to members of the Loretto community. It alleges "malicious language, taunts, threats, abuse towards members of our school community, gossip, rumors, unkind language and behavior". Meanwhile, the Sills have given a statement to the Sacramento Bee, saying that the "charges are categorically false and defamatory".

Profane Worship

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clownmass.jpgToday’s Old Testament reading ought to be referenced in documents regarding liturgical abuses. If it already is, please let me know.

“‘And now, O priests, this command is for you. If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it. So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the Lord of hosts. My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts, and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.’ Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?” – Malachi 2:1-10 (ESV)