Having babies is a smart thing to do!

I will try to verify this later. Regardless, I am sure my wife is thrilled to know that she is getting smarter. I have always thought it to be true.

Massive pro-family rally in Madrid to protest new education law Unfortunately, it appears, the socialist government in Spain is making big strides in rapidly advancing the culture of death. This article simply demonstrates that it appears more and more like it will not happen without a fight. Praise God for pro-family groups.

Sitting on the fence is painful, but necessary. This is an excellent read about being a middle of the road Catholic. Not too traditional. Not too "spirit of Vatican II". One finds that over the course of Catholic history a pendulum swings from indifferentist heresies to over-emphasis of a doctrine that was particularly ignored during the previous time period. It is always important to not overemphasize or deemphasize particular teachings of the Church. Excellent read. I highly recommend.

"Are Catholics Allowed To Read The Bible": An Article by Francis J. Ripley

Pre-reformation literature is saturated with Bible quotations. Much that is left to us consists either of books of the Bible or breviaries which are almost wholly made up of Scripture. The sermon literature of the Middle Ages was a mosaic of Scripture texts. Preachers used the Bible much more than is customary today in any pulpit. Half an hour’s perusal of the sermons of a Bernard or a Bonaventure shows us that the preachers almost thought in Scripture texts. For those who could not read, the Church moreover, provided a knowledge of the Bible by means of mystery plays, illustrated editions of parts or the whole of it the paintings, sculptures, and stained glass windows of her churches: the statuary of one great cathedral is known as the Bible of Amiens. Of the Bible in pictures, the Synod of Arras (1025) said: "The illiterate contemplated in the lineaments of painting what they, having never learnt to read could not discern in writing."
To the man of the Middle Ages the Bible was a living reality.

A perfect example of this would be looking at the wealth of Bible one would get from looking just at the windows in Chartres Cathedral. I took one of the pages of the diocesan web page dedicated to the cathedral to literally illustrate the point. I have linked to The Passion and the Resurrection window. Using the links on the page you can review the images. The point is that on just on ONE of the hundreds of windows you have 14 Bible stories.

Meanwhile, I have picked up another stained glass image from Chartres that I may add to the right. Here it is:


Weeding Out the "Unfit" Unborn - New Threats From an Old Ideology from Katolik Shinja Pro-lifers don’t like to rail on Margaret Sanger because she was supposedly a proto-feminist. They rail on her because she wanted to use birth-control, euthanasia and the like to breed out the undesirables.

Cardinal Arinze on the synod and the Mass

(further clarification of politicians holding to pro-choice stances and receiving communion) Suppose somebody voted for the killing of all the members of the House of Representatives, "for all of you being killed. I call that pro-choice. Moreover, I am going to receive Holy Communion next Sunday." Then you ask me, should he be given communion. My reply, "Do you really need a cardinal from the Vatican to answer that question?" Can a child having made his First Communion not answer that question? Is it really so complicated? The child will give the correct answer immediately, unless he is conditioned by political correctness. It is a pity, cardinals have to be asked such questions.

Need I tell anyone here that Cardinal Arinze is totally awesome?

and now for something completely different … some weather

Caught On Tape: Tornado In Woodward ... OK. This is an incredible video, but I have to ask. What possesses someone to RUN OUTSIDE when a tornado is in such close proximity to ones home?