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On Irish Politics and Irish Religion
The Irish Times reported on December 8, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI had invited Cardinal Sean Brady and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to a meeting on December 11th to discuss “the painful situation” in the Catholic Church in Ireland, per confirmation b...
Politics and Religion and the Theology of Pruning
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said it was discourteous that Papal Nuncio in Ireland did not respond to the two letters sent to him by the Murphy commission in February 2007 and earlier in 2009. The previous reluctance of the Papal Nuncio in Ireland t...
Feedback
Why is it that we don’t seek to shut down an automobile driving school if one of its graduates decides to mow down pedestrians as they cross the street? Well, because the school presumably did not teach them to commit evil with their new skills. If...
Towing the Line
A free Catholic press. Everyone whose name appears in print has certain feelings about the press. Everyone who was in search of the Truth. I don’t like sweeps week stories conducted by my local news hatchet men and women on sexual abuse by ...
Those Quiet Carbon Imprints
Before he became pope, Cardinal Ratzinger was quoted in America Magazine as stating that the church needs to get smaller so that it can become purer. And the plans seemed to well be underway. Actually the comments were based upon Salt of the Earth, ...
The Who
Signs of endings. The markets. I am absorbed by the markets. At this point in time. Based upon the state of the world. When everything seemed liable to crash in the time of a megabyte. In Russia. It looked like it was all over in a revo...

