SING, my tongue,the Savior’s glory;tell His triumph far and wide;tell aloud the famous storyof His body crucified;how upon the cross a victim,vanquishing in death, He died.Eating of the tree forbidden,man had sunk in Satan’s snare,when our pitying Creator didthis second tree . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s not the end of what Peter said that day, and we’ll get back to that in a minute. But I think that we have to admit something to ourselves since we know we are like Oprah Winfrey. We have to admit that often, we don’t care about what God wants.
I think there are two reasons for this. ... Continue Reading »
To be trite, let’s call the nonsense about the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035, “glaciergate.” Why? Not only did the IPCC Report present the false claim to the world as a way of pressuring political leaders—discussed already here at SHS—but it now turns out . . . . Continue Reading »
The jury in the George Tiller killing convicted Scott Roeder of murder in the first degree. From the story : Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a killing the gunman claimed was . . . . Continue Reading »
The jury in the George Tiller killing came to the right verdict, convicting Scott Roeder of murder in the first degree. From the story:Jurors swiftly convicted an abortion opponent of murder Friday for shooting to death one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S., a . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s been a flurry of reports on President Obama’s intentions for our space program—in particular, the Constellation human spaceflight venture. Conceived with the intention of replacing the aging space shuttle and possibly returning humans to the moon, the program is a phantom of . . . . Continue Reading »
This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the first performance of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ masterpiece, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. I fell in love with this magnificent work nearly 30 years ago while studying for my written comprehensive exams at Notre Dame. . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend, Ralph McInerny, has slipped away, dying at 7:45 this morning. I have no voice or words to speak our loss. Not yet. Not today. An autobiographical essay of Ralph’s appeared here , and several fine poems, including : Effable Where are words when not yet spoken: on the tongue, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
That, of course, is a variant of a Polish joke that decency prevents me from citing here. Considerable ink has spilled over the proposition that Poland’s Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek is an anti-Semite, following remarks about Jewish exploitation about the Holocaust, already posted in this . . . . Continue Reading »
What a shame. When Senator Elect Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election, I saw it is a real political and policy opportunity for President Obama. He could jettison the current disastrous bills and retool—focusing on what is actually broken rather than trying to remake our entire . . . . Continue Reading »
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