Tell the Truth about Funding Death

1. Remember, the overturning of the Mexico City Policy also means renewed US taxpayer funding for the infamous United Nations Fund for Population Activities, which has been complicit in China's wicked "one-child" policy, with its record of forced abortions and coercied sterilizations.

2. Here's a very savvy outlook on the political climate for the next big pro-life fight -- preserving the Hyde Amendment. The emphasis by pro-lifers on FOCA is all well and good, but we have to defend against these piecemeal attacks.

3. Nobody will ever be able to accuse Bishop Robert Hermann, administrator of St. Louis, of being mealy-mouthed. Here, he declares plainly that lax Catholics who have compromised their faith with the prevailing beliefs of our age are responsible for the state we're in. He also clearly states that our real enemy is not some temporary public official, but the spiritual powers (he obviously remembers Eph 6:12). My favorite line: "This is a great time to be a Catholic. This is a great time to witness to such a clear choice, the choice of Christ or the anti-Christ.”

4. Here is a textbook example of the limitations and dangers of consequentialist (i.e., the ends justifies the means) thinking. Note the impossible assumption of perfect omniscience (i.e., I can tell beforehand that torture will certainly yield the "greater good" in this case), and the blind eye to the degrading effect that sin has on the sinner, not to mention the creation of structures of sin. Look, we can discuss whether a particular interrogation technique constitutes torture; that's not what's going on here. We cannot hold that one may do evil so that good may come of it (see Rom 3:8, and Veritatis Splendor), because that way lies disaster.

5. File this story in the "Miraculous Power of Love" category -- a husband's kiss awakens his wife from a coma.

6. Here's another market sector that apparently needs stimulation -- the porn industry. I'm sure the unspeakable Speaker can come up with an explanation for this one too.

7. Just came back from Msgr. William Smith's funeral. In his funeral instructions, he asked his homilist to please mention the Memorare. In a touching gesture, we all prayed that wonderful prayer together. Could you perhaps take a moment and do the same, in memory of this great priest?