Armchair Psychoanalysis

1. Gov. David Paterson does some bizarre psychoanalysis on opponents of same-sex "marriage", calls us guilt-ridden. There's a healthy contribution to the debate. Thanks, Gov!

2. Meanwhile, the no-doubt guilt-ridden Bishop Tobin of Providence is calling for Catholics to end their apathy on preserving marriage.

3. In the spirit of Gov. Paterson, you should also be aware that opposition to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia is considered to be not rational, but just some kind of "moral intuition". And people wonder why Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict have emphasized both faith and reason as the foundation of Christianity.

4. We Catholics need to be clear about the intrinsic evil of torture, regardless of who does it or what "good" may come of it. Here are two good resources for that: here and here. This discussion is going to be more and more important in the public square, and it is crucial that Christians give public witness.

5. The "Catholic News Service" continues to publish the column of Prof. Doug Kmiec, which are having less and less to do with authentic Catholic teaching, and more and more with shilling for the Administration's anti-life policies. His latest effort brought a stinging response from Cardinal Rigali, chairman of the bishops' pro-life committee, for its false claims about the President's stem cell policies.

6. 53 bishops, including 3 cardinals have spoken out on the NDU commencement scandal. The President responds to the decision by Ambassador Glendon (it's buried at the bottom of the story).

7. Well, at least now there's a vacancy in the Governor's mansion in Kansas. Maybe under the next guy mass killers of unborn children won't be so welcome. Sadly, they now have yet another powerful friend in Washington. Now, the next question -- Sen. Brownback, what were you thinking, voting "yes" for a woman responsible for this moral catastrophe. Shame on you.

8. On that same topic of Gov. Sebelius, in case you want to get a good look at the kind of "respectable" anti-Catholic bigotry we'll be hearing a lot more of, check out this column from the LA Times.

9. Blogged yesterday about the drama of the daily Mass readings this week. Blogging today about torture.