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Father God and Mother Nature

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During Lent last year, the Saint Mary’s campus did the traditional Stations of the
Cross and a new Earth Stations.

Turgi said the Earth Stations recalled the suffering of the Earth as the body of
God.

Can you say “heresy” boys and girls? I’m a big fan of being good stewards of God’s creation, but this just ain’t kosher.

At Cross-Purposes

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For one segment of society, the
live birth of a baby at 26 weeks is cause for celebration. For another, abortion
after 26 weeks is exercising the “right to choose”. When and how will
our society resolve this conflict?

World’s smallest baby ready to go home

CHICAGO (AP) — A baby who weighed less than a can of soda when she was born by Caesarean section three months ago is nearly ready to be released from the hospital. She is believed to be the smallest baby in the world ever to survive.

How to stop the attack on abortion rights

THE BUSH administration thinks it has political “capital.” And it plans on spending some to destroy women’s right to choose abortion.

Tucked away in the omnibus spending bill approved by Congress last month was a provision that would allow physicians, hospitals, HMOs and insurance plans to opt out of giving abortion referrals, as they currently are required to. This provision will especially affect poor women, who rely on federally funded health care.

Senatus Populusque Americae?

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Readers of this blog may know the following things about me:

  1. I’m not a fan of George W. Bush
  2. I’ve compared the U.S.A. to the Roman Empire
  3. I believe in a strict interpretation of the just war doctrine that proscribes
    war in most cases.
  4. I didn’t agree with the invasion of Iraq. In fact, I participated in a large anti-war rally in Pittsburgh.
  5. I dislike the fact that the Church co-opted pagan winter celebrations with Christmas in a bid to gain more converts.
  6. I loathe the commercialization of Christmas by Christians. Let the pagans, heathens, and faithful of other religions spend their money how they please. We should be following the examples of Christ and His apostles.

Knowing these things, a reader might be led to believe that I’d agree with the conclusions
presented in “The
politics of the Christmas story” by James Carroll of the Boston Globe.
That reader would be wrong.

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Europe

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I found it amusing that in this review of Jeremy
Rifkin’s hagiography of the EU, the only suggestion to help combat
his beloved
EU’s population implosion was to have more non-EU immigrants come
in (does
he really want an Islamic Europe while he’s at it? Will Italians dig the
“halal
prosciutto” from their local butcher?).

Now there’s one time-honored tradition for curing a low population that
the Economist
implied that Rifkin didn’t mention, and it’s HAVE MORE BLEEDING
CHILDREN!