http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com Religion, Politics, and other offensive stuff Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:52:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A commenter at AmP mentioned this video clip of a long form interview by a young Mike Wallace of an aging Margaret Sanger.  Up until now, I have read some quotes, some accounts, and the like, but this is a chance to hear her in her own words.  Of particular ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/10/13/mike-wallace-interviews-margaret-sanger/ Of all the posts I have written on this blog, the one that has consistently gotten comments over the nearly a year since I wrote it regards Fr. Francis Mary Stone, of EWTN's Life on the Rock fame.  At that time, we simply had a statement that was read on ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/10/07/fr-francis-mary-stone-dave-stone/ The MSM doesn't like Archbishop Burke's recent promotion. Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an American, the former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, we can ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/10/02/trashing-abp-burke/ Interesting developments today in the world of Catholic morality.  For some time, a theologian who I have heard mentioned a few times, Doug Kmiec, has been working on mental gymnastics to somehow come out with the notion that it is possible to maintain one's Communion with the Catholic Church while ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/10/01/perspective-on-the-idea-of-being-pro-life-and-pro-obama/ When desecration of the Eucharist became all the rage a couple of months ago, I predicted there'd be a rash of immature teenager copycat types trying to pull the same kind of stuff.  Unfortunately, I was right.  We have a post from the friendly folks at Priests in Crisis on ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/09/27/not-happy-about-it-but-i-told-ya-so/ Here's a story featured in the Catholic News Service today. It talks about how Canadian Catholics, and specifically Canadian Catholic politicians, seem split on supporting social justice issues and life issues. Canada's political battleground splits Catholic politicians between those formed by Catholic social justice movements and those who stake their Catholic ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/09/18/catholics-trying-to-balance-social-justice-and-life-issues/ On the lighter side, R.A.G.E. Media has a list of Scott Hahn facts, inspired by all the great Chuck Norris facts you can find out there on teh interwebs.  A sampling: Helen Keller’s favorite noise is Scott Hahn. Scott Hahn ruins the ending of the Gospel of Matt for teenagers, just to seem ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/09/16/scott-hahn-facts/ I heard a brief interview by Sean Hannity with abortion survivor Gianna Jessen on his radio show yesterday afternoon.  I also heard the audio from the new ad in which she appears for BornAliveTruth.com.  It's a great and powerful ad. Gianna also appeared on Hannity and Colmes.  She got 5 minutes, ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/09/16/gianna-jessen-for-bornalivetruthcom/ I was amused to read and listen to the sound bites from last evening's interview by Charles Gibson of Sarah Palin, especially in the context of the cavity-inducing interview between Obama and Stephanopoulos a few nights ago.  Gibson was out for blood from the start, and Palin met him well ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/09/12/on-gibsons-grilling-of-palin/ (post by Seminarian Tim) COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's Democratic Party chairwoman said Wednesday that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's top qualification seems to be not having had an abortion. She later apologized. In an interview posted on the political Web site Politico, Chairwoman Carol Fowler ... http://romancatholicbychoice.stblogs.com/2008/09/11/south-carolina-dem-to-%e2%80%9calter%e2%80%9d-her-statement/