Nobody's Pure Enough for Moloch

1. Heh, heh, heh. The President isn't even pure enough for the Cult of Moloch, which is denouncing the removal of contraceptive funding from the "economic stimulus" package. Expect an auto-da-fe soon.

2. Our new senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, wasted no time in establishing her anti-life credentials in the Senate, voting against an amendment to the SCHIP bill to restore the Mexico City Policy. Meanwhile, Emily's List, the pro-abortion PAC, gushes over her. Have we mentioned that she's supposedly Catholic?

3. Remember, despite the rosy rhetoric of unity and consensus, we should keep in mind that the President isn't trying to end the so-called "culture wars" -- he's trying to win them.

4. I don't want to get into the whole issue of the Society of St. Pius X here, but what gets me is this. Lots of people apparently think it's wrong to have lifted the excommunication of the SSPX bishop who spouts anti-Semitic rantings about the Holocaust, because that behavior is so awful. Yet few people seem to support canonical steps against those public officials who persist in the manifest grave sin of supporting legalized abortion. (For a description of how those penalties could work, see canonist Ed Peters' blog). Odd, indeed.

5. The sad story of Prof. Doug Kmiec continues. Instead of publicly protesting the policies and appointments of the President he campaigned for, the professor is talking about how he might get appointed Ambassador to the Holy See. Please pray for him.

6. More hope for re-union with our separated brethren of the Orthodox Churches -- the election of Metropolitan Kirill as Patriarch of Moscow, whi is personally friendly with the Holy Father. On another front, there are reports that a traditional Anglican group may come back into the Church as a personal prelature. The Holy Spirit is a busy guy these days.

7. Japan has come up with a delightful idea to combat their declining birth rate: letting workers go home early to, well, you know…. What time is it?