The Jesuit Tradition, Again

1. Meanwhile, Georgetown Law School will host an event sponsored by something called "the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law" and the group Legal Momentum, an ardent pro-abortion group linked to NOW. They will give an award to the noted legal scholar Joseph Biden. Ah, the Jesuit tradition.

2. The White House Office of Potemkin Villages, er, I mean the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, has set up six task forces to study important issues: (1) reform of the faith-based office, (2) fatherhood, (3) U.S. economic recovery, (4) interreligious dialogue, (5) global poverty, and (6) the environment and climate change. Gee, what's missing? Nobody could find time to talk about conscience protection, human life, marriage -- anything else that religious people and organizations might be interested in? Sure glad they managed to put together a religious group to study global warming since nobody else is looking at that.

3. More from Wesley Smith on how verbal engineering in the biotech/bioethics world contributes to the dehumanization of human being who are unfortunate enough to be in the embryonic stage of their lives.

4. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius takes an important step forward towards confirmation as HHS secretary. Respect for human life and public witness to the Catholic faith take important steps backwards.

5. Yet more proof that the Temple of Moloch, er, I mean Planned Parenthood, is not only enthusiastic about murder, it's indifferent to rape. All to serve and protect women, right?

6. Pretty good overview of the rather delicate selection of a new ambassador to the Holy See. It would have been nice if the reporter had managed to find someone in his rolodex other than the usual suspects who say the usual things from the usual graveyard of "liberal Catholicism" (including a laugh out loud howler from the wishful thinking files of Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ). Maybe it's just me, but aren't people like George Weigel reasonably well known to reporters? Just a small gripe about an otherwise decent article.

7. Do you remember the show "Green Acres"? It's apparently on re-runs at the White House. Nice shine on those shoes, I have to say.

8. Sorry, but I won't be putting out a Varia tomorrow -- I'm off to beautiful Albany to bask in the reflected glow of the most dysfunctional legislature in human history.