image: The Lamentation, Peter Paul Rubens c. 1609 I love this little passage from today’s Office of Readings: Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he … Read More
Good Friday Prayers for Bella Santorum and Others!
Rick Santorumn’s presidential run may soon be over, but his most important role as father to his seven children, including little Bella who has Trisomy 18 will never end. Speaking of Bella, this precious gift of life is back in the hospital today. Communications director Hogan Gidley, issued the statement: “Rick and his wife Karen have taken their daughter Bella … Read More
Christ Teaches Us How to Die, Redux
As assisted suicide deaths rise yet again in Oregon and Switzerland and they prepare to discuss legalizing the practice in Massachusetts, over at Catholic Lane this morning, I revisited and revised a previous post from here: For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps. … Read More
I Have a Say
This image (via CatholicSistas) goes perfectly with what I wrote for CatholicLane yesterday.
Cecile Richards Doesn’t Speak for Me…Or the Majority of American Women
According to liberal feminists like Nancy Pelosi and Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, opposition to the Health and Human Services mandate forcing religious employees to cover contraceptive services amounts to a misogynistic “war on women.” The media is often all too willing to repeat this opinion as being representative of the female population at large, but is this what the … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The Body Remembers
God love him. Fr. Richard Neuhaus was such a brilliant, holy man and he had such a poetic way of exploring some of the deepest tenets of our faith. In his book As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning, he ponders the union of body and soul: Which brings us back to the idea of death as the separation of … Read More