Both my sons would do this
Man runs into burning home to save his Xbox
Woman physician: “I was indifferent until I adopted a child and now I march.”
A beautiful op ed in USA Today last week. With a lovely story of adopting a Chinese girl. It's only eight paragraphs long. I used to be one of those who felt sorry for the idiots who spent their money putting up signs along the Florida Turnpike saying things like: "Abortion stops a beating heart," … Read more
Cuomo speaks: “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life … have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”
UPDATE: 36 second audio below – Any disagreement with the governor and you're an extremist. The full quote can be seen in full context here – Cuomo has made a career of referring to anyone that opposes his agenda as “extreme” while simultaneously referring to that agenda as “common sense.” It’s code words and phrases … Read more
Eighth anniversary of my autologous stem cell transplant
Great health care professionals, chemotherapy, and prayer. Here’s what I posted baack on the fifth anniversary. I could never quite figure why having your stem cells returned to you constituted a transplant, but that’s what they call it. Anyway, the idea is to re-build your immune system, after the high dose chemo has (hopefully) killed … Read more
John Dear, Jesuit peace activist, leaves the Jesuits
FULL DISCLOSURE: I know John Dear a little bit. I'd read a few of his essays and seen a couple of video interviews, and then in the early or mid 90's i was involved in a little civil disobedience that he was partially organizing, on Good Friday, in Manhattan. I'm not sure of the year. … Read more
NY Times editorial explains how Little Sisters of the Poor don’t understand Catholic teaching
UPDATE: Here's a response to the NYT on NRO website – The Poor Little Sisters Nice of them to help the sisters out. The link below contains the text of the last line of their editorial, which also includes comments like "audacious' and "absurd." Like the cases of the private employers, the suit by the … Read more
Fr. Robert Barron’s call to the priesthood – 2 and 1/2 minute video
As he says, I think this is probably an unusual way to discern a vocation. I think most priests find there vocation through dealings with other people.
Two American heroes
Both died this month – this is from the NY Times. Rodolfo Hernandez, 82, Dies; Awarded Medal of Honor In Korea, 1951 – Corporal Hernandez had already been struck by grenade fragments and was bleeding heavily from a head wound when his commanding officer ordered his platoon to fall back. He continued firing until his … Read more
Fr. Barron on the Pope as Time’s Person of the Year
I meant to post this a few days ago. Another excellent commentary, well worth investing the 11 minutes.
Happiness: men and women, liberals and conservatives compared
One of the bits of data from the NY Times weekend feature A Formula for Happiness which I posted about here. Good feature on happiness: genes, events, and values Results no surprise to me. Beneath these averages are some demographic differences. For many years, researchers found that women were happier than men, although recent studies … Read more