Let me be the first to welcome Alexandra Baldwin to Catholic blogdom! She has launched Oremus – Adventures in Orthodoxy. Crunchy Catholics beware!
Alexandra and her husband Bryan are very close friends of mine. We’ve known each other since college. They didn’t condemn back then when I was a heathen. Now I think they might name their first child after me!
I fell on the floor laughing when I read what Sean Gallagher wrote about combining priestly ministry with a Broadway career over at Nota Bene.
A very disturbing piece by Rod Dreher today on the human cost of our shepherd’s transgressions. What is the Church for? To bring souls to Christ, the only source of salvation. Look at the cost of this scandal in terms of the human cost and money doesn’t much matter. We need openess and accountability from our bishops and cardinals. We need to help the victims of this abuse heal fully. We need action on their part to eliminate this abuse in the future. We need to pray.
A reader gives his comments on my comments on Mark Jordan’s Freudian sloop. He also sent me some junk from Time magazine that I will comment on later.
You are spot-on with your analysis of Mark Jordan and others who share his view. It would be laughable if it were not so serious. I suspect you have seen this article from Time magazine. Not to put too fine a point on it, but persons who view the world primarily through the grid of their sexual attractions can’t see straight. This is, of course, true of heterosexuals as well as homosexuals. Sexual attractions ought not define us as persons. If they do, then there’s something terribly
wrong. The answer is not cultural change or new ways of seeing. The answer is the same as it’s always been: conversion of hearts and minds so we might experience the saving power of the Paschal Mystery.
Mark Shea is dead on today in his commentary on Islam and the Islamic world. We stand with you, Mr. Shea. Give them my number if they call.
