Author: Steve

Law and not of the Cardinal variety.

The discussion is Canon Law between Amy Welborn, Mark Shea, and others. It is worth following, but that pesky comment feature is like giving your house keys to every kook in the world with a PC and a phone line. I’m going to change my template so all the email links say “anger management.”

Who is cranky?

Why it’s the Cranky Professor, of course! I happen to agree with him, though I am neither as cranky nor as learned as our crotchety sage. That post was very thought provoking.

Yes, Popes ‘can’ depose bishops. I tremble to think of it happening. Please see: “History”. There are usually horrifyingly painful schisms after depositions. You think this is undermining pastoral care? What about an authoritarian pope (not the one the liberals think we have, but an ACTUAL authoritarian) who deposes bishops left and right.

Another good one from The Weekly Standard.

Among the Bourbon Barons by Matt Labash.

A good bourbon is the ideal slow-and-steady pick-me-up. First, it bites you with its sweet burn. Then you learn to like it, when your tongue picks off the oaky vanillas and caramels, or perhaps the more subjective flavors of “cedars of Lebanon” or “new-mown grass,” at which point, you know you’re drunk. Bourbon is the spirit most likely to put you in an easy sipping rhythm with all its attendant benefits: the relaxation and conviviality, the brief waylay in that magically lucid state that resides somewhere between stone-cold sobriety and intoxication.
Mark Twain, who harbored no such animus against Scotch (he liked his drinks one way: strong), took a simpler view of bourbon: “Too much is barely enough.”

I don’t follow boxing,

but a pal forwarded me this story about The Rahman-Holyfield fight. Holyfield hit him so hard he practically grew another head!

I am always amazed at the simple faith of athletes:

Holyfield showed he has enough left to beat a man who was heavyweight champion only seven months ago and is 10 years younger.
“Don’t tell me what God can’t do,” Holyfield said. “Don’t tell me he can’t revive a 39-year-old.”