Here’s a great post I found linked from Insight Scoop;

Spock Would Make A Great Catholic

Well done by Larry D.

2012 is out on DVD and is being promoted on Google Ads.

Here’s a link to Father Barron’s (Word On Fire Ministries) review of the movie. He doesn’t recommend it.

http://www.wordonfire.org/WOF-TV/Commentaries-New/Fr-Barron-comments-on-2012-movie.aspx

Here’s the U-tube version;
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A long time ago I made the error of judging the truth of a religious belief and system of beliefs, based upon the actions of a few that were leaders of a local congregation of that particular belief system. Hypocrisy can be found almost anywhere and among religious we look more intently for it if we are so inclined.

As it happened, I discovered that there were other reasons, sound legitimate theological reasons for leaving that faith community behind and I entered the Catholic Church. By then I realized that the truth of the faith is not measured by how seriously its adherents take it. Indeed, at the time I entered the Church the clerical abuse scandal in the Boston, Mass area was at its peak. But there had been other scandals and most recently it has been the same thing all over again in Ireland.

I think that in this case, while the details of the problem are terribly sad and a real indictment of the leadership of the Church in Ireland, the report that was commissioned was very instructive, and well worth reviewing for its clear assessment of what went wrong, who was responsible and what it was they were thinking.

Here’s an excellent article by Michael Kelly on that report called, The Wolves Roamed Freely.
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Well, the dissenters are at it again. There is even a new blog for a petition not to correct the errors in the English translation of the Mass, what is called the Ordinary rite by Benedict XVI.

Here’s the blog and a sampling of some of the links at the blog from the usual suspects.

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Here’s a thought. The translation we are discussing, which Benedict XVI and the USCCB is attempting to correct, is an English translation of what is official in Latin. How is it such a terrible thing to want to get the English version to match the Latin standard?

I think that there is a theological basis for this. Without examining it in any detail, isn’t that an interesting commentary that some would want to keep a translation of something so integral to the Church as her liturgy, that is flawed? Why? What is there in the correction that offends them so much? Or is it just the fact that the Pope is exercising his proper authority over the liturgy that offends them?

Here’s a reminder of how seriously we should take the liturgical dissenters. Given a choice between these people and Benedict XVI? Is there any question?

This article from Newsweek talks about a woman who is going to “reduce her carbon footprint” for Lent. It refers to other Christians who are taking a similar approach and even ropes the Pope into the story inferring that he is onside with this because of his admonition to be good stewards of the planet.

There is another article regarding two UK Bishops who are encouraging their parishioners to observe Lent by going green and as it turns out, they are of the Anglican communion. That story here and here.

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Here is a story that goes to demonstrate what we have always said about the “pro-choice” movement. They truly are pro-abortion because for them there is only one acceptable choice. As pro-life we believe there is only one acceptable choice and we say so. They hide behind the facade of freedom of choice but when someone high profile points out the possibility of not killing a baby, regardless of what the the “medical professionals” tell them to do, the “pro-choice” crowd, tolerant people that they are, go into attack mode.

And to compound it, they are mocking people with disabilities on top of that, which in their most self-righteous mode they would tell the rest of us is unacceptable and “inappropriate.”

Hypocrites.

The mocking.

The response.

Sarah Palin was not supposed to “choose” to have a Down Syndrome baby. She was supposed to kill it. That was the acceptable choice and she has been attacked for this ever since the 2008 election. It goes to show how vicious the compassionate political left really are, and when they tell you they want this or that for “the people” because they care, don’t believe them. They are about power and control. The compassionate face is just a fraud.

…from Thoughts Blog;

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

…for the Month of January 2010 are completed. This being the liturgical Year C of the Roman calendar.

You’ll find them at THOUGHTS.