How to Eat With a Priest
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, June 20, 2009 9:30 AM
flickr commons/intron
In our “Guide to Sunday,” for Father’s Day, my wife and I ask: Why not celebrate the man you actually call “Father” — your priest?
In Faith & Family magazine, April shared priests’ four tips about what they want when laypeople have them over for dinner:
1. Be normal, and do what you normally do. (“The last thing a priest wants is an awkward, self-conscious evening where he feels like... READ MORE
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Must We Feed Them?
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:45 AM
Terri Schiavo (wiki)
The Culture of Life Foundation has issued a reply (here) to the Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs on the question of whether or not food and water are extraordinary care.
The question was key in the case of Terri Schiavo, who was starved to death by court order. The Jesuit Consortium published its critique of Pope John Paul II’s position in Commonweal.
Says the reply by by E. Christian... READ MORE
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Common Ground vs. Dialogue
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, June 07, 2009 4:00 AM
At an Istanbul mosque. (CNS/ABianchi, Reuters)
Yesterday, I noted that Obama’s vision, spelled out at Cairo and Notre Dame, is radically different from Benedict XVI’s.
Benedict wants religions to acknowledge their differences in search of truth. Obama wants them to acknowledge their sameness in search of peace.
Obama is very cleverly, with fine intentions, proposing relativistic secularism as the world’s common ground.
(This continues... READ MORE
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3 Things Obama Didn't Say
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, June 06, 2009 9:03 AM
(Ali Jarekji/Reuters)
Obama told his Muslim audience: “[W]e must say openly to each other the things we hold in our hearts and that too often are said only behind closed doors.”
Hmmm … here are three things he didn’t seem to want to say openly in Cairo:
He didn’t praise doubt, or promote LGBT, or read the Koran’s other verses.
1. He didn’t praise doubt.
Specifically, he didn’t say this (I’ve added... READ MORE
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Obama, Notre Dame and Islam
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, June 06, 2009 4:14 AM
cns/reuters
At Cairo, Obama had to reach out to Muslims whose religion he admires but who tend to extremist positions (jihad) that he rejects.
At Notre Dame, Obama had to reach out to Catholics whose religion he admires but whose positions (the right to life) he rejects.
The two speeches he gave had some surprising similarities.
In Cairo, he praised a version of Islam that suited his purposes.
His hope... READ MORE
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Bernardin vs. Obama
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:32 AM
Cardinal Bernardin in 1994 (Reuters/Scott Olson)
At Notre Dame, Obama referred to Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.
“That must have had Cardinal Bernardin turning over in his grave,” writes Elizabeth Lev.
Then, she finds an extraordinary quote from the cardinal himself ... and in the Register, no less.
Obama “cleverly backed up his pro-choice arguments by quoting the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s ‘seamless garment’ project,” wrote Lev, “which... READ MORE
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'National Treasure' vs. 'Angels & Demons'
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Saturday, May 30, 2009 4:47 AM
Angels & Demons is basically National Treasure, set in Rome ... which could have been so much cooler than National Treasure. But it was so much worse.
Jerry Bruckheimer’s work may have been derivative, commercial and silly. But as it turns out, that works better for a treasure hunt story than ponderous, arrogant and overblown.
My wife and daughters reviled me for paying money to see Angels &... READ MORE
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