Yahoo! News – Cannibal Spared Life Sentence in Gory Trial

And who ever said that Europe wasn’t in moral decline. Apparantly, you can do whatever you want to someone, whatever their mental state, as long as they agree to it.

Letter 1/28/04

I’ve been checking the updates on Father Groeschel nearly every day. He’s doing better, and God willing, is on his way to a full recovery. At the moment though, he’s still unable to speak having his throat blocked by a traech.

As I started to read the emails that the Friars have been posting, I was really moved by how close people feel to Father Groechel, having not ever even met him.

I too have that same affinity, having listened to countless numbers of his sermons, speeches, and homilies. He has that rare ability to strike fire in your heart with his words, moving you to change; pushing you towards the goal. His homilies are not nice. They force you to probe those aspects of your life that you don’t want changed, don’t want to recognize. That’s real preaching.

I was particularly moved by this quote:

“”Dear Father Benedict, I was so sorry to hear about your accident. I am a 48-year-old Canadian who has been living as a Tibetan Buddhist nun for the last five years; but “ironically” during a recent pilgrimage to Bodh Gaya India had an encounter with Jesus Christ in the sweetness of the Christian people doing work with the poor and sick there. I vowed on my return to Canada I would answer a very strong call to come home to Jesus and to seek guidance to enter the Catholic communion. Your book on advent and the incarnation was where I started this journey toward reconciliation with Jesus….” – P.B., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada”

The Seattle Times: Politics: ‘It turns out we were all wrong’ about Iraqi weapons, Kay testifies

“There’s a long record here of being wrong,” Kay said, adding he believed that Bush and other U.S. officials, as well as U.S. allies, had based their beliefs on flawed intelligence. “It turns out we were all wrong,” he said.

I’m sure that blogs across the nation are linking to this article as further proof of what everyone has been saying all along; it wasn’t lying, it was bad intelligence.

Salon.com recently went a’ bashin’ the Passion. The article, was, among other things, written by someone who hasn’t even seen the movie, but was reviewed in a new genre of movie review: “My friend didn’t like the movie, so I thought I’d vicariously review it through them via interview.”

Among other things, they they reveal in the interview Mel’s starteling new claims about historic Christianity.

Cintra: So, Mel Gibson seems to be arguing that the gospels are factual documents.

Stanger: Exactly.

Thank goodness someone with common sense and a great amount of humor was able to “fisk” this nonsense line by line.

Secret Agent Man’s Hilarious Response.

Not Just Abortion

I will admit that I was partially convinced by the arguments sprung up by the Catholics for Dean people. That is, until I read Peter Vere’s response, and remembered that church teaching doesn’t just apply to the abortion case. Man I’m forgetful sometimes.

He brings to light Deans obviously contraian (to church teaching) stance on euthanasia, capital punishment, homosexual unions, and on other “wars.”