Author: Sal

An analogy from nature – ‘intersex’ abnormality

Male fish bear eggs in Potomac
Sewage or factory effluent may be cause of ‘intersex’ abnormality
SHARPSBURG, Maryland (AP) — Male fish that are growing eggs have been found in the Potomac River near Sharpsburg, a sign that a little-understood type of pollution is spreading downstream from West Virginia, a federal scientist says.
The so-called intersex abnormality may be caused by pollutants from sewage plants, feedlots and factories that can interfere with animals’ hormone systems, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

This is strangely analogous to the cultural pollutants that have seeped into our lives over the past several decades and their effects all over. You get what I’m saying?

Comparing Christians to Terrorists

“Where else do we find fundamentalist zeal, a rage at secularity, religious intolerance, fear of and hatred for modernity?” Mr. Wills fears that conservative Christians are on a “jihad” — his word — to lock everything other than Christian beliefs out of the town square.

Bishop Martino issues Pastoral Letter on the Virtue of Chastity

The link is to a press release on the Diocese of Scranton’s website. They have yet to post the letter in full.

“The church has always taught — and I teach here — that we need to find our happiness and holiness in a commitment to the chastity lived out in marital love or the chastity of celibacy lived out either in the consecrated life or the life of a single lay person in the world. These are the two paths to happiness and eternal life. There are no others.”
While some may believe that other subjects take priority, Bishop Martino stressed that
“chastity is a virtue for our times, and it does take priority. That should be clear, for instance, in the wake of the scandalous events in our own church as well as those in secular society.”

Scranton’s diocesan newspaper is, incidentally, called “The Catholic Light.”