Family stuff
Bioethicists: Unborn baby is merely a “Gestator’s” body part.
I guess like an appendix… Thanks to EM for sending me this. I’ve excerpted only part so hit the top link for the entire thing. The article is by the great Wesley J, Smith. Nothing in the editorial is surprising. But I was rather astounded to recently learn that some pro-abortion bioethicists now deploy the … Read more
Good Friday Pax Christi Manhattan Stations of the Cross
This is the 44th year the NY branch of the Catholic peace organization Pax Christi did the Stations across Manhattan, mostly on 42nd St. Brigid and I started doing the stations around 1992 and the event was much bigger with upwards of 7-800 participants and some media coverage. However it has dwindled way down, less … Read more
Supreme Court rules against Colorado conversion therapy ban
The vote was 8-1. Seems common sense to me if someone wants therapy to end their same sex attraction. How can you ban that? The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of a Christian counselor from Colorado, declaring that the state’s ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for homosexuality and gender confusion violates the First Amendment. The … Read more
Last Wednesday -Int’l. Walk for life in Manhattan
The tenth annual one and the fifth I’ve been to. A reasonable turnout including Bishop Peter Byrne who I know fairly well (long, funny story – picture below). We went from Foley Square in front of the Federal Courthouse up through the financial district. Gathered a lot of attention, much of it positive. Would you … Read more
Pigs fly department: Actress at Oscars speaks out for marriage and motherhood
Wow. That’s the last Academy Award she’ll ever get! This taken entirely off Laura G’s facebook page. I never heard of Jessie Buckley until I saw Laura’s posting. Last night at the Oscars, Irish actress Jessie Buckley did something rare in Hollywood: She stood on one of the biggest stages in the world and delivered … Read more
Lou Holtz give a great, short, funny speech
This looks like a University Commencement speech but it doesn’t say where it is. Here’s what I posted a couple of days ago when it was announced he’d died. “I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
Ben Sasse: Politics Should Be More Like the Super Bowl
The Wall Street Journal has a new free online newsletter with a variety of opinion pieces. Ben Sasse is the former Republican Nebraska Senator who is terminally ill with stage four cancer, but still is functional. Former Senator Sasse announces terminal cancer. Below is his column about civility; hit the link for the full column. … Read more
Books I read – my 2025 list
This excludes – two exceptions below – the reading I do professionally. And it’s a shorter list than the 2024 (14 books) list, to a great extent because much of three months time was spent on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routine – every few years – examination. (I am registered directly as an … Read more
Another stab in the back from Notre Dame
Not the first and no doubt won’t be the last. Quite a few years ago a professor there told me that the students were more prolife than the faculty. I know the largest Notre Dame campus club is the prolife club and Notre Dame always has a big turnout at the March for Life. Scroll … Read more