Author: John Schultz

From today:
The priest who hears confession, stressed John Paul II, must welcome the penitent, be thoughtful, warm and caring in his demeanor and “not be avaricious with his time.”
He must also, said the Pope, use charity and
justice “in referring, without ideological variations, … to the genuine
teachings of the Church.”

For the record: computer hacking is a serious sin.
But, my sources tell me it’s a only a venial sin if hackers put the U.S. flag on the Al-Jazeera Web site.
And a classic quote from the article: Al-Jazeera… is an unusually independent voice in the Arab world.
Huh?

Dye Pack Explodes in Robber’s Pants
Thu Mar 27, 9:05 AM ET AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A bank robbery suspect learned a painful lesson: Never shove stolen money containing an explosive dye pack down your pants.
Shortly after the National City Bank downtown was robbed Thursday, police spotted John Gladney, 40, about a block away, walking strangely, in obvious pain.
Officers stopped Gladney and discovered he had been injured when the dye pack exploded near his groin, said Sgt. Brent Mull, police spokesman.
Gladney was charged with aggravated robbery.

Meanwhile, less than 100 miles from Key West
Cuba’s Roman Catholic church condemns crackdown on dissidents
“We lament the inappropriate methods being used to arrest people for thinking and acting differently from the official ideology,” a statement from the Conference of Cuban Catholic Bishops said.
At least 75 people have been arrested, many of them independent journalists, owners of libraries, and leaders of opposition political parties, according to the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and Reconciliation.

Dom B. take me to school
Seems as though my choice of words, “immoral war” is misguided. I’ll need to take some time to digest the CWN article.
John,
…Just wanted to correct something you said. The Pope has never said
this is an immoral war. We have an analysis of the Pope’s comments about the
war on Catholic World News web site and while he has said we should try to
avoid the war, he has never called it immoral since that would place a
burden on every Catholic to not only not participate in the war, but also to
not support it. That would have been a major step.
You need to be a subscriber to view. Dom – maybe we can get some of the points from you.