tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194627692024-10-10T20:43:41.814-05:00Interesting things Catholic <li>..the devil's in the details..</li> <li>... John 5 25-29 ...</li>Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.comBlogger829125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-4672520236807823922008-12-18T06:44:00.001-06:002008-12-18T06:59:19.865-06:00

Darn it. Just when we Catholics thought we had the Anglicans on the right path by replacing their head with a Catholic politician, it seems they don't need a head.So if they don't stand on requiring the King or Queen to lead them, what do they stand upon? Just simple stubborn seperation from the Church. And unlike Luther, they don't even claim a different theology. Just apart and liking it.I

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Riots and Chaos from the young. Teens on the street with matches and 100 Greek middle schools occupied and controled by the children.Sure sounds like the 60's only without fear of reprisal by the law and order folks who must be staying at home and watching it on TV.If there is a ressonance, let me predict more social disorder, rage and burning. Poor old Lyndon Johnson made promises for a Great

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It may happen yet. Since the Anglicans believe that the King or Queen of England are divinely appointed by God to lead their church, this should put an end to the sad division between us all these hundreds of years.A Catholic Anglican leader would be compelled to wipe out this old national church division, and move the high Anglicans to Rome where they belong.The low Anglicans would find no

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-34352304112663396272008-12-09T11:04:00.002-06:002008-12-09T11:19:27.192-06:00

I know it's not easy to balance all these competing human wants and desires regarding IVF. God made us to want children. And the thankfully nagging Church reminds us to have the children using God's methods.It is interesting that a sizable percentage of IVF folks perceive something to consider in their little baby embryos. And that this occurs to them only after their wants for a child have been

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Wow, the readings today re Christ the King just shout of Judgement. ...The sleek and strong? Out!The goats? Out to the fire created for the devil and his angels....How much plainer could it be?...Show of hands please... who heard a homily today having anything to do about Judgement? I heard nothing....How encouraging. Could it be the mother's milk that the Priests think is all that we can

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-76469690852476891732008-11-15T05:32:00.003-06:002008-11-15T05:55:52.396-06:00

Tech leaders to unite world religions with the "golden rule".For probably good reason, they sound like competent High School Sophomores that have yet to take their History Class. With their high self-esteem I think they are expecting an "A" for effort and originality.They have simply arrived and had a bright idea regarding one of the most perplexing works of the devil ever invented.Of course,

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-65492216834929735242008-11-14T13:36:00.000-06:002008-11-14T13:43:11.007-06:00

Pray for the half of us who do not know what we are doing.+++Picture compliments of Jill Stanek blog.linkWho's going to the March in Washington DC in January? It's a worthy message for our new president as he unfolds his plan to bring the nation together.

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-49499823669155537412008-11-13T15:36:00.001-06:002008-11-13T15:42:48.453-06:00

The U.N. is for talking. I'm surprised a little regarding the negative comments about having Saudia Arabia lead the "U.N. Faith Forum" that have come forth....It lends itself to humor I know. But, this is what inviting everyone to the table feels like.We shall see. And with Obama, we shall see more....link..."Humanity is in moral bankruptcy, and we are in need of being bailed out," d'Escoto said.

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-70214089950873939152008-03-28T10:37:00.005-05:002008-03-28T10:54:26.859-05:00

Explaining the stages of his conversion, Allam said that “at some point I had to take action” after discovering that “the roots of evil are intrinsic to Islam, that [it] is physiologically violent and historically conflictive.” ...Yes Mr. Convert, that is it exactly. ...A clever religion founded on some angel's whispers. Plus an admitted fear of idol worship of the special prophet that rewrote

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-72930961663295944042008-03-11T16:20:00.003-05:002008-03-11T16:28:36.292-05:00

You know, in 90% of the cases, it's us... the adult generation that is responsible. Kids are kids because they're willfully ignorant and immature. It's us.Now what can we possibly do about it except teach Virtue. Not values.. Virtue. Do we know how to do that anymore? God, I hope so.linkAt least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens,

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-74154182476125525762008-03-10T15:28:00.003-05:002008-03-10T15:47:40.711-05:00

This Sunday, the Priest asked the congregation whether they wanted the short or long version of the Gospel reading on Lazarus. Great shock.. they wanted the long version. So nice! It goes along with my suspect that people who don't like worship and things sacred, would not be very comfortable in heaven either....Anyway, although Lazarus was raised from the dead, it was not an admission to heaven.

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-41972459198625302612008-03-07T08:02:00.002-06:002008-03-07T08:29:07.647-06:00

This story referred by D.C. lawyer with tagline… “the human spirit shines through”. And to me, it’s nanny prohibition type meddlers run amok. And this from the State that elected Jesse Ventura their governor. Go figure.Anyway, let God sort it out. Religion in the past in this country was quite meddlesome. Now we pretty much leave petty things up to God. For really serious things we prefer man’s

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-59172378673554586422008-03-03T15:54:00.004-06:002008-03-03T16:26:34.616-06:00

Blood and daggers. Iraq Christians and Muslims. The Pope and Sikh leader's 'Kirpans' (daggers)....What in the world? Let's see. Sikh leaders carry sacred daggers, and are willing to forgo a meeting with the Pope since the security rules do not allow death implements at the meetings. I wonder what makes these daggers sacred to the supposed muslim religion of peace. ...Well, I really don't care

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-20534722570800552492008-02-28T10:15:00.002-06:002008-02-28T10:23:35.662-06:00

I was under the soft assumption that Bishop Sklba was pretty much a leftover from the Weakland disaster in Milwaukee. Although the one time I did see and hear them together, Bishop Sklba seemed like a nice, perhaps holy fellow.He must be smart and able, since he is in some important positions, and Bishop did keep him on after Weakland's banishment.Anyway, to his credit he said something very good

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-38899808666369183982008-01-15T05:18:00.001-06:002008-02-28T11:01:42.891-06:00

We hear that islum worships the same God as Christians. He's a tricky dude though.Jesus had done something displeasing to God and was punished. So all the people who 'thought' they saw Jesus on the cross, were really looking at Judas, but their eyes were lying.Jesus? He escaped to go hiding somewhere and of course was not raised from the dead since it wasn't him on the cross.Sound feasable? Nope,

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-56571026212430135342008-01-04T05:41:00.001-06:002008-01-04T05:46:38.133-06:00

Bishop John W. Yanta of the diocese of Amarillo said that Tuesday January 22 will be observed in his diocese as a "Day of Fast and Abstinence." Catholic priests in the diocese will celebrate in violet vestments, a symbol of penance in the Catholic Church. link ...bishop has declared his diocese will observe the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion in the United States

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-77304861984077719462007-12-26T05:16:00.001-06:002007-12-26T05:31:52.597-06:00

Surprising that I had the default assumption that anglicans would naturally be against abortion.I know they are splitting along homosexual and femine disagreements, but I thought a church that considers itself somehow close to Catholic would get abortion right. Not so.I must have given too much credit to anglicans having John Henry Newman before his conversion to Catholicism.And the theological

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-85818559222342086242007-12-24T05:17:00.000-06:002007-12-24T05:48:03.503-06:00

I am always happy to see the churchs generally swell the pews for Christmas and Easter. The Priests always throw in a welcome to 'visitors', and hope to see them again soon.---Some of this swelled population effect comes from regular parishioners bringing in their extended families and friends.---Some of this is Catholics drawn be the season's nostalgia and extra church decorations... the manger

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-60147376925184138242007-12-15T21:41:00.001-06:002007-12-15T22:03:30.030-06:00

What is it when man's eyes stare at the material and deny the spirit either good or evil? Man as human animal vs. man as human spirit.It is then "as we are born", vs. as we are born of God. The stuff of the cosmos. Dust in, and dust out, so make the best of it.And if that's the outlook, then mother and father become parent 1 and parent 2. No longer spouses, but partners in some strange handshake

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If you run across early Christmas Cards from the 1800's, you can tell that times were very different.This article is a reminder that protestants, having set themselves back to sola scriptura, could not abide celebrating Christmas on any certain day since that exact date was not listed in the Gospels.Somewhere since the reformation, this pagan Catholic practice must have been dropped proudly. But

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O Obama. Oh what 8 years of Democrats' thinking will bring us.As we cringe at VOTF rhetoric, we might expect to cringe much more as the President speaks, and speaks, and acts.A big shot at VOTF now a chief advisor to Obama. linkSo what is Obama's attitude toward Catholics? In his speech last summer to the Call to Renewal Conference he explained, "The majority of Catholics practice birth control

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-62928094257568209892007-12-07T12:46:00.000-06:002007-12-07T13:35:51.868-06:00

You know that in China, if you have the sniffles, or even worse a cough and cold... you can not go around face naked. You must wear a mouth filter or suffer shame. You see it all over, especially publicized in the government big meeting rooms.They're leading edge atheistic. You know the kind... better live long since that's all there is.I predict that the next big healthy thing coming to the not

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-14452887984310813772007-12-05T05:39:00.000-06:002007-12-05T06:05:39.319-06:00

7 Priests, one woman, $500,000.And it's worse really, because the dad did not want to care for the child, but rather kill the child.As nice as the Filipino people are, and as nice as their Catholic religion has made that corner of Asia, their native Priests have a reputation for having a problem with staying chaste. 3rd hand knowledge says that many have women on the side, and that it's accepted

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-2103447806064208022007-12-01T06:06:00.000-06:002007-12-01T06:48:19.799-06:00

It's World AIDS Day. And what is the common thought? We must 'fight' it.Much like people with cancer, who 'battles' or dies after a long 'battle' with disease, if you're a good guy, let's fight AIDS.And what is the common answer to AIDS? Condoms of course.Is there nothing humorous about a fight conducted with a rubber? I think it is very odd if not humorous.Well I must admit that to get the whole

Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07011496260967345405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19462769.post-41728109427945673902007-11-29T06:16:00.000-06:002007-11-29T06:47:09.572-06:00

Wow. What is it about St. Paul and Minneapolis that is driving their spirit? Something in the dirt?---We have the St. Francis Cabrini parish who proudly will "bless" homosexual partners... link---And then these sisters of which at least one is a clown "Rosey Red". ---Who's running things up there I wonder.---These women like something called Cosmos..---A view of the whole world as God's good

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