Category: Culture War

UPDATE: Links Fixed
Jayson Franklin emailed me about another great effort to save Terri Schindler-Schiavo. “This campaign isn’t seeking money, dontations, or even sponsors,” Jayson wrote, “but rather, ears. The disciples with microphones, a newly formed catholic apostolate, has been collecting audio commentary, stories, and essays about the plight of Terri Schiavo. The quality and depth of the audio stories has been impressive, and we’re hoping to help others to hear and thinkg about Terri and her struggle.”
Please visit Podcasts for Terri when you have a moment.

More yellow snow journalism from our friends at the Timmins Daily Hack.

This has become a hot topic this week in Canada as Fr. Lemire, a leading advocate of traditional marriage, denied Holy Communion to a socialist member of parliament who also happens to be a former columnist for the [sic.] Catholic New [Age] Times, a newspaper that makes the National Catholic Distorter look ultra-montane and orthodox.
Anyway, since some unamed canon lawyer from Ottawa (I’m not sure who, but I have a few suspicions) reportedly told the politician he could not be denied Holy Communion, LifeSite News invited me to clarify the topic…
Catholic Church Canon Law on Catholic Politicians Who Support Gay ‘Marriage’
OTTAWA, March 9, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the same-sex ‘marriage’ issue coming to the fore in Canada and the United States, the issue of Catholic politicians supporting such measures and still wanting to receive communion has surfaced. To clarify the issue, LifeSiteNews.com spoke with Ottawa-based canon lawyer Pete Vere, JCL.
LSN: What is a priest to do in a parish where one of his parishioners is a politician who supports gay ‘marriage’?
Vere: The parish priest has an obligation to correct Catholic politicians who support so-called same-sex marriage. The first paragraph of canon 528 stipulates: “The parish priest has the obligation of ensureng that the word of God is proclaimed in its entirety to those living in the parish. He is therefore to […] make every effort to bring the gospel message to those also who have given up religious practice or who do not profess the true faith.”
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Despite our differences over the Harry Potter series, I must agree with my fellow Canuck social commentator Michael O’Brien when he states Canada is in serious danger of becoming a totalitarian state.

The Islamic Saudi Academy is right across the street from the strip mall where I bought my first goldfish, which is next to the comic book store where I spent many of my allowances. It used to be a Fairfax County high school, and then it became a junior high (I believe John and Steve Schultz attended it for one year.) When it and another school were combined, it stood vacant until the Saudis leased it from the county. Now it’s a madrassa for Islamofascists and their children.
I was going to republish some news excerpts about the ISA, but this article has so much information that I’ll direct your browsers over there. Suffice it to say that they teach hatred of Judaism and Christianity as part of their extreme Wahabbi Muslim faith. Jews are evil and good Muslims will kill all of them on Judgment Day. You’ve heard all of this before.
That’s bad enough, but last year the Maryland state police arrested the former comptroller for casing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, stopping by the side of the road to videotape its structure. It turns out that he belongs to Hamas. Now a Saudi American alumnus has been indicted for plotting to murder the president. Maybe the guy is innocent, but given the range of evidence that the Feds say they will produce, it doesn’t look good for him.
The next time the ISA’s lease comes up for renewal, I hope somebody on the county board of supervisors has the guts to oppose it. The school is run by the Saudi embassy, and so it benefits privileged families of a corrupt, oppresive regime. Let them rent space in an office park. Other than filthy lucre, there’s no reason my local government should help them spread their anti-American, anti-Jewish, and anti-Christian ideology.
UPDATE: Here is what our local jihadi had when he was arrested:

I don’t know what’s wrong with the gun magazine. Considering most Virginia households have at least one firearm, that’s not terribly unusual….