Time for a Nun to Become Pope
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 29th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Time for a Nun to Become Pope
Maureen Dowd, New York Times
WASHINGTON Maureen Dowd Yup, we need a Nope. A nun who is pope. The Catholic Church can never recover as long as its Holy Shepherd is seen as a black sheep in the ever-darkening sex abuse scandal. Now we learn the sickening news that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nicknamed “God’s Rottweiler” when he was the church’s enforcer on matters of faith and sin, ignored repeated warnings and looked away in the case of the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, a Wisconsin priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys. The church has been tone deaf and dumb on the scandal for so…
Please Don’t Call it ‘State Socialism’
Vin Suprynowicz, LV Review-Journal
The modern Prussian police state was built by Bismarck and others in the 19th century on a Spartan model, giving the central government vastly greater control over the individual than had ever been considered possible before.Bismarck's program centered squarely on insurance programs designed to increase support for the ever larger and more powerful government. The program included health insurance, workman's compensation, disability insurance and old-age retirement pensions, all innovations at the time.Starting with the model of Prussian compulsary schooling, American…
New York is Broke & Broken
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Last Updated: 6:30 AM, March 28, 2010 Posted: 3:50 AM, March 28, 2010 A decade ago, New York City faced a dramatic rise of children placed in fos ter care. Even more alarming was the kind of family breakdowns that got them there. Nearly 85 percent of children were put in protective homes because their parents, or usually parent, were drug addicts, alcoholics, convicts, or guilty of abuse. The traditional causes, poverty and neglect, accounted for only 15 percent of cases. The findings struck me as a metaphor for our times. We live in an age of unprecedented…
I Can No Longer Stay in the Church
India Knight, Times of London
Vote for your Favourite Beauty ProductsIndia KnightWhere am I?My daughter was baptised into the Roman Catholic faith when she was two months old. She is now six, and should really be gearing up for her first communion. The fact that she isn’t is down to one factor: the parish priest at the local church was suspended, pending investigations into allegations of child abuse.He was eventually cleared of all charges, which was nice for him but didn’t really work for me because I don’t want any of my children left alone with adult men in any context where the words…
