Filed under: abortion, Books and Movies, Culture and Catholicism, depopulation, Vatican II | Tags: abortion, Catholic values, demographics, economics, Hungarian Constitution, Hungary, Jonathan Last, Planned Parenthood, secularism, student housing, third party, university cost, Vatican II, Wall Street, What to Expect when No One's Expecting
The Spanish have a saying, Pan para hoy, hambre para mañana, or Bread for today, hunger for tomorrow, and that just about nails down the economic implications of the rush for homosexual marriage. Businesses filed Friend of the Court briefs in huge numbers before the Supreme Court decision, and Marriott summed it up in their celebratory statement as reported by NPR: gays have more disposable income than families with kids, and we want that dough. Mars bars, Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, New York Life and Levi Strauss, 278 in all were eager to throw marriage under the bus for a cut of the action.
That bread dough has a shelf-life, of course. It expires with the next generation–oops, what generation? And then we shall know the hunger. Continue reading
Filed under: Culture and Catholicism, Uncategorized | Tags: Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais', Catholic values, distributism, economics, John Rao, John Vennari, Quas Primas, religious freedom, SSPX
As it turns out, SSPX politics, expressed at the October Kansas City conference featuring Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, matches its theology. In religion, SSPX teaches us to reject Vatican II’s modernist compromises with the sects, called ecumenism. In politics, SSPX, in line with traditional Catholicism, teaches us to reject compromises with secularism, because its ‘solutions’ are only natural and deny the necessity of Christ being the King, the real King, not only in the spiritual realm, but in the temporal realm too. Or put another way, SSPX rejects the modernist theological notion of ‘religious liberty,’ and rejects correspondingly the political expression of that notion, the secular state. Pursue instead, they taught us in Kansas City, the straight path, the Restoration of Christ the King in our market places and courtrooms, schools and voting booths. Give us back our heritage! Give us a religious state!
They made one hell of an argument. Continue reading
Filed under: abortion, Culture and Catholicism, depopulation, Green Catholics, Vatican II | Tags: abortion, birth rate, Catholic church, Catholic values, demographics, economics, Nancy Pelosi, negative population growth, Obama, Planned Parenthood, SSPX, Vatican II
Once again Vatican II has been named in a political struggle between pro-life Catholics and liberal Catholics who would institute public policy at variance with Catholic teaching, and thereby do economic and ecological harm. Continue reading
Filed under: abortion, Culture and Catholicism, Green Catholics | Tags: breast cancer, Catholic values, contraception, economics, feminism, morality, National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation
The July 13 edition of NPR’s Talk of the Nation almost asked one of health care reform’s most important questions: Are patients at least part of the problem in the explosion of health care costs?
Unfortunately, the show left the question unanswered.
Lynn Neary knew what she didn’t want, but not what she wanted. Continue reading
Filed under: abortion, Culture and Catholicism, depopulation, Green Catholics, Uncategorized | Tags: abortion, Catholic, Catholic values, Christianity, demographics, economics, feminism, liberal fascism, motherhood, negative population growth, Obama, Planned Parenthood, South Korea, Wall Street
In the astonishingly frank 2009 interview linked here, the head of Korean Planned Parenthood , Mr. Choi Seon-jeony, details the depth of Korea’s depopulation crisis and the transformation it has wreaked upon Planned Parenthood itself. Go read it, but if you don’t have time, you will find a short summary below. The reader may notice inconsistencies in the summary; they are present in the original.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Catholic economics, Catholic values, collapse, economics, market experts, morals, stock market, taking your money out of the stock market
The paperwork to escape the stock market lies on the dining room table, waiting for a signature. Next to the file is my old wooden rosary. It is not presently waiting for anything; I already prayed it still in my pajamas, while the sun came up and revealed a windy Monday morning.
