A Great Spiritual Warrior

1. Bishop Finn of Kansas City is one plain-spoken Christian spiritual warrior. Read his recent address to a pro-life conference. Kind of makes you think of the way the Lord and His Apostles might have spoken, if they had the misfortune of being born in this evil and adulterous generation.

2. "Same-sex marriage" advocates are making confident noises: see here and here. Still, I can't see the Senate Republicans giving the Dems such a victory.

3. People who were working for our government (i.e., men and women with immortal souls, with God's law written into their hearts, and with the Holy Spirit dwelling within them due to their baptism) actually waterboarded two prisoners 266 times in one month. Torture is always, under all circumstances, gravely immoral, even if it "works" or if the targets are bad people. Read the Catechism here, here, and here.

4. The political zombie known as Governor Paterson is trying to resiscitate his career, in part by making "same-sex marriage" a central part of his agenda.

5. More on the verbal engineering of the word "embryo". This has real-world consequences. You may recall that in an infamous decision by the New York State Court of Appeals, the court used the nonsense term "pre-zygote" to describe the result of the fertilization of a human egg by a human sperm, all along the way to declaring that these new human lives were mere property to be divided as part of a divorce settlement.

6. This is not from the Onion, but I wonder if Wesley Smith is having a bit of fun with us. He reports that a leading climate scientist claims that too much sex is causing global warming. My favorite part is that the scientist's name is "Sunburn". Hmm.

7. Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (known in Hebrew as Yom Hashoah). Perfect -- the day after the racist terrorist genocidal lunatic President of Iran makes yet another public speech spewing hatred of Jews and Israel, a speech that would have fit right in the pages of Der Sturmer. Please pray -- never again.