an excerpt of a comment from a post on Fr. Z's blog on a priest who slapped a young man who desecrated the Blessed Sacrament - on the nature of punishment (specifically in this case why corporal punishment was not inappropriate):

"Thirdly, there are other purposes for administering punishment than just changing the offender's heart. There is putting ( Read more... )

I don't understand the cliche of calling the vagina (or uterus) of a woman who has had a large number of children a "clown car ( Read more... )

ok. so one time I was talking to dave and he mentioned a video of tea partiers making fun of a guy with parkinson's disease. I had never heard of such a thing before and voiced my disbelief as to its veracity. after all, I read a lot of political blogs and someone would have mentioned it if it were true, but on the other hand, if it were creating ( Read more... )

ok, have to say what the effery ( Read more... )

several places are talking about this so I think I'll collect some of the better (or worse, as the case may be) ideas and suggestions here.

(by the way: why the hell is LJ all light and airy and green? it's weird.)

there's a phenomenon where if someone has more than 2-3 kids, and sometimes more than one, other people (usually total strangers) feel ( Read more... )

so there's this health care bill, I'm sure you've heard of it by now. and it's stuck in Congress because evidently people aren't too keen on the whole abortion aspect of it, among other things. first we were told that it didn't even mention abortion, which was a heinous lie. then we were told that it didn't use tax dollars to fund abortion, which ( Read more... )

if we're supposed to be all for reproductive rights and reproductive freedom, then when the drum starts seriously beating about governments or other entities requiring a maximum number of children, then I want to hear from ALLLLLLL the reproductive right and freedom people how EXACTLY that squares ( Read more... )

there's a pretty hefty debate raging over some comments patrick madrid made on a radio show, giving a 19 year old boy the advice that he should not date non-catholics, as in, should automatically rule them out.

( blanket cut because it's not finished yet )

so Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize ( Read more... )

I've been musing some about why there are some women all fired up about wanting to become priests, and oh isn't Holy Mother Church such a patriarchal woman-hater ( Read more... )