tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94537762024-03-07T01:07:03.826-05:00HereunderWaiting On ThereafterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1112240632074676632005-03-30T21:48:00.000-05:002005-03-30T22:48:28.496-05:00Truth Is"Truth is a power, however, only when one requires of it no immediate effect, but has patience and figures on a long wait. Still better, when one does not in general think about its effects but wants to present truth for its own sake, for its holy, divine greatness. . . . As already said, one must have patience. Here months may mean nothing and also years. And one must have no specific aims. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1112067167878402172005-03-28T22:26:00.000-05:002005-03-28T22:39:46.010-05:00A Bad Habit Is Hard To BreakFile this under "Has Been A Nun."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1111904369221473892005-03-27T01:08:00.000-05:002005-03-27T18:52:20.640-05:00Like The Sun From Out The Wave"God paid a ransom to save us from the impossible road to heaven which our fathers tried to take, and the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. He paid for us with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God." -- Peter 1:18-19“They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians obtained permission to bury it in a rock tomb inUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1111504258998986252005-03-22T10:09:00.000-05:002005-03-22T15:09:31.016-05:00Why The Caged Bird SingsAn old priest once told me this story.One day, a man came across a young boy carrying a banged up birdcage. Inside the cage were two small birds.“Where’d you get the birds?” the man asked.“I caught ‘em,” the boy said.“Really? What are you going to do with them?”“I don’t know,” said the boy. “Play with 'em, I guess. Shake the cage, dangle a string through the bars, tease ‘em, feed ‘em worms, I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1111010368176840192005-03-16T16:51:00.000-05:002005-03-18T15:02:11.783-05:00And Not A Drop to DrinkTerri Schiavo is a 41-year old woman who is brain damaged and who some doctors say is "in a persistent vegetative state." For this reason, her husband has decided to remove the tube that gives her food and water.Terri's parents went to court to try to stop her husband. Florida's legislature has passed laws to stop her being starved and dehydrated to death. At each turn, the state courts in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1110683736316478682005-03-12T22:00:00.000-05:002005-03-15T20:42:58.526-05:00Putting Words In Your MouthLyrical ideas have dominated my thoughts for a long time.Or perhaps I should say that ideas about lyrics have dominated my thoughts for a long time.Popular music is a compelling expression of many things, among them, emotion, culture, and wit. The best music marries the music itself with lyrics of beauty, strength, cleverness, or humor. I hope to look at these types of lyrics in the future.But Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1108701866584827062005-02-17T23:16:00.000-05:002005-02-17T23:59:56.890-05:00Worth Doing BadlyIf a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." -- G.K. ChestertonI read with great appreciation last Friday's post, written by my good friend and skillful mainstay of this blog. I also noted with interest the perceptive posts of our thoughtful guests. It put me in mind of the following lines, written by Chesterton, almost presciently, in the years before the First World War, as though he Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1106684430397780452005-02-16T22:30:00.000-05:002005-06-14T13:19:09.743-04:00The End of Satire“You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.” -- Art BuchwaldTomorrow is the birthday of hotel heiress Paris Hilton.Recently, Miss Hilton was arrested for suspicion of petty theft in West Hollywood, California. “There was an incident, and she is alleged to have taken something,” sheriff's Deputy Steve Suzuki said immediately following the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1105987032014610222005-01-17T13:10:00.000-05:002005-01-17T21:07:06.020-05:00Not Too Soon To Tell“I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, we must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies toUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1105758789852595242005-01-14T21:38:00.000-05:002005-01-15T00:12:07.113-05:00A Broken RecordHonor isn't about making the right choices.
It's about dealing with the consequences.
-- Midori Koto
Well, here I go again.
It was recently revealed that conservative columnist and television show host Armstrong Williams took a $240,000 fee from the Department of Education to run an ad on his program supporting President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” program and to write a syndicated column Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1105481486646547782005-01-11T16:39:00.000-05:002005-01-11T18:54:02.810-05:00The Eye WinksAfter reading this space last Friday, CBS Chief Leslie Moonves today broke silence and “took responsibility” for CBS’ discredited story on President Bush’s national guard service by firing three CBS news executives and the story’s producer. Those directly responsible for the airing of the piece -- CBS anchorman Dan Rather, CBS News President Andrew Heyward, and Moonves himself -- all remain in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1105135856907840772005-01-07T16:41:00.000-05:002005-01-07T18:35:20.463-05:00I Feel So ResponsibleThe Senate Judiciary Committee took up yesterday the nomination of White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales as U.S. Attorney General. With this action, the Judiciary Committee again gives the American public an opportunity to see craven grandstanding and hypocrisy at its worst.
In one such example, Committee Democrats apparently even considered resurrecting at the committee hearing the photos andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9453776.post-1103917569907438482004-12-24T14:29:00.000-05:002004-12-26T03:45:25.536-05:00The Fullness of Time and Other Strangers
Every miracle can be explained -- after the event. Not because the miracle is no miracle, but because explanation is explanation. -- Franz Rosenzweig
A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. -- G.K. Chesterton
Some years ago, not long after I returned to the Catholic Church, a random thought struck me about the notion of the Real Presence of Jesus in theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1