Author: John Schultz

Here are some choral pieces my choir is doing for Lent. Links go to the Choral Public Domain Library (or “Liberry”) as seminarians from St. Charles in Philly would say.
Miserere Mei– di Lasso
O vos omnes – Casals (no score available)
Peccantem me quotidie – Morales
Salvator Mundi – Tallis
Surely, he hath born our griefs – G.F. Handel

Episcopal Church feels ‘regret’
Homosexual Scandal in Anglican Church Spurs Plan to Reunite with Catholics
Report: Churches May Reunite
A church torn in two
What would a reunification under the Pope mean? Less folk songs. More incense.

Tehran – A top Iranian cleric said on Friday the United States was within Iran’s “firing range”, a day after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to hit back at US interests worldwide if attacked.
“Americans have surrounded us but it works to our advantage. They are within our firing range in the east, west and elsewhere,” Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in his Friday prayer sermon carried live on state radio. …article here

“The President’s budget misses the mark on reducing poverty in America. In fact, with cuts to key programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, the president’s budget will only serve to exacerbate the problems facing millions of our nation’s poor families… The President’s new budget hurts those living in poverty at a time when we should be doing even more to help the most vulnerable among us. America needs to strengthen vital social service programs to help those in need, not weaken those programs.”

Was it:
A) Nancy Pelosi
B) Ted Kennedy
C) Howard Dean
D) Fr. Larry Snyder, President of Catholic Charities USA
I’ll give you a hint:

Catholic Charities USA is especially alarmed that just two weeks after President Bush’s State of the Union address, in which he acknowledged the nation’s health care crisis, the president is recommending cutting more than $100 billion from Medicaid, Medicare, and other critical health care programs over five years.

I thought Catholic Charities was for… charity? Am I naive to think that they shouldn’t be heavily involved in policy debates when the government is inherently uncharitable?