Holes
I lied yesterday. I didn't go to the movies until 1:30. I had an appt. at 4, so it worked out for the best. I saw Holes, as I planned. It was okay. The story was kinda weak, I think...but it was decent. I have meeting tomorrow at 3:15, but I doubt I'll go to the movies again. I was planning on going to see Bend It Like Beckham, but who knows.
Anyone ever had a chicken whopper from Burger King? I never have until today...I went there, because there were buy one, get one free coupons in the mail. They're good...kinda weird tho at first, because it's like they're sprinkled with black stuff from the grill. It doesn't taste so good at first, but it gets better...or maybe there was just more on the first bite. Who knows. I was sitting in the car, listening to the Sean Hannity Show on the radio, waiting for my dad to come out of work (I had to pick him up), eating the chicken...some guy came up while I was stuffing it into my mouth. I didn't mind, I was starving! Speaking of starving, I just ate 2 bagels with butter. Too bad they didn't cook all the way thru and they were sort of chewy.
Hear about this idiot from NOW, the nazi women organization? Some executive in the group is demanding that charges of murder on the fetus of Lacy Petersen to be dropped. These ladies, like all nazi organizations, are insane. They are ruining this country. They need to stop. That's that.
This is cool- Gourmet Pizza of the Month Club
I just used all my mysurvey.com points for raffle tickets. For- a plasma tv, 12 month gourmet pizza club membership, and 12 month subscription to netflix.
I'm nearly finished with the book, Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror, and I started reading one story from the best new horror book I picked up. I was going to watch that movie Bloodwork which is due back today, but it seems someone took it!
I haven't read all of this following article yet, but it shows the silliness some in the Catholic Church prescribe to. The church has no right to send such a letter...it may be a symbolic gesture, and an attempt to show their disdain for some of his politics, but the members of the church are not the Church itself. Christ is the church. You can't do things like this. As for the catholic stance on abortion...it doesn't matter one way or another. The Bible says man isn't alive until he breathes...babies don't breathe, so you could say that the Bible says nothing of abortion...tho, I'm sure God wouldn't be so approving of the practice. Some in the catholic church have crazy ideas on that stuff anyhow- birth control a no-no? Great idea! You can't order someone to not call themselves Catholic, and call me crazy, but the catholic church puts way too much priority on the pope, who is a mere man. He holds no secret powers, he is no higher in the eyes of God than any other man. Some catholics look upon him as tho he is the second son of God sometimes, and that's just silly. So, let's stop putting so much into what the pope says...if we are to believe most of the reports about him, he can barely think for himself any longer, let alone make any real decisions- even if he could, that doesn't mean they would all be approved of by Christ himself. My main point is- you can't send someone a letter and tell them not to be catholic anymore. That's just ludicrous- and a big waste of time...
from the evangelical team leader e mail for april 21, 2003:
A Weekly Standard Exclusive: The Senate minority leader is ordered to stop calling himself a Catholic.
by J. Bottum
4/17/2003
Tom Daschle may no longer call himself a Catholic. The Senate minority leader and the highest ranking Democrat in Washington has been sent a letter by his home diocese of Sioux Falls, sources in South Dakota have told The Weekly Standard, directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church.
This isn't exactly excommunication--which is unnecessary, in any case, since Daschle made himself ineligible for communion almost 20 years ago with his divorce and remarriage to a Washington lobbyist. The directive from Sioux Falls' Bishop Robert Carlson is rather something less than excommunication--and, at the same time, something more: a declaration that Tom Daschle's religious identification constitutes, in technical Catholic vocabulary, a grave public scandal. He was brought up as a Catholic, and he may still be in some sort of genuine mental and spiritual relation to the Church. Who besides his confessor could say? But Daschle's consistent political opposition to Catholic teachings on moral issues--abortion, in particular--has made him such a problem for ordinary churchgoers that the Church must deny him the use of the word "Catholic."...
...Carlson later told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that he remains mystified by Daschle's position on abortion. "NARAL claims him as one of their number-one supporters. I don't understand how he can be in touch with South Dakotans as much as he is, and yet consistently have a pro-abortion record."...
There's quite a list of pro-abortion Catholics in Washington--beginning with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader in the House--who could use similar instruction in "the duty to be morally coherent." Just in the Senate, there's Biden, Collins, Daschle, Dodd, Harkin, Kennedy, Kerry, Landrieu, Leahy, Mikulski, Murray, Reed, and more. But at least Tom Daschle has now been forced by Bishop Carlson to assume some responsibility for moral coherence--even if it is, unfortunately, a coherence achieved in the wrong direction.
The diocese in Sioux Falls would not say what brought the issue of Tom Daschle's Catholicism to a head at this moment, although one South Dakotan suggested it may have to do with Daschle's crossing of yet another line recently when he began direct fund-raising for NARAL. Senator Daschle's office has not yet responded to a request for comment. It's a serious thing when a bishop breaks a pastoral relation, no matter how tenuous that relation may have grown. But Bishop Carlson is right that the time has come to banish Cuomoism from American politics. This isn't a matter of favoring Republicans or Democrats. Regardless of their party, public figures who aren't going to oppose abortion shouldn't call themselves Catholic anymore.
FULL STORY HERE
Posted by Josh at April 22, 2003 03:50 AM
Holes
I lied yesterday. I didn't go to the movies until 1:30. I had an appt. at 4, so it worked out for the best. I saw Holes, as I planned. It was okay. The story was kinda weak, I think...but it was decent. I have meeting tomorrow at 3:15, but I doubt I'll go to the movies again. I was planning on going to see Bend It Like Beckham, but who knows.
Anyone ever had a chicken whopper from Burger King? I never have until today...I went there, because there were buy one, get one free coupons in the mail. They're good...kinda weird tho at first, because it's like they're sprinkled with black stuff from the grill. It doesn't taste so good at first, but it gets better...or maybe there was just more on the first bite. Who knows. I was sitting in the car, listening to the Sean Hannity Show on the radio, waiting for my dad to come out of work (I had to pick him up), eating the chicken...some guy came up while I was stuffing it into my mouth. I didn't mind, I was starving! Speaking of starving, I just ate 2 bagels with butter. Too bad they didn't cook all the way thru and they were sort of chewy.
Hear about this idiot from NOW, the nazi women organization? Some executive in the group is demanding that charges of murder on the fetus of Lacy Petersen to be dropped. These ladies, like all nazi organizations, are insane. They are ruining this country. They need to stop. That's that.
This is cool- Gourmet Pizza of the Month Club
I just used all my mysurvey.com points for raffle tickets. For- a plasma tv, 12 month gourmet pizza club membership, and 12 month subscription to netflix.
I'm nearly finished with the book, Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror, and I started reading one story from the best new horror book I picked up. I was going to watch that movie Bloodwork which is due back today, but it seems someone took it!
I haven't read all of this following article yet, but it shows the silliness some in the Catholic Church prescribe to. The church has no right to send such a letter...it may be a symbolic gesture, and an attempt to show their disdain for some of his politics, but the members of the church are not the Church itself. Christ is the church. You can't do things like this. As for the catholic stance on abortion...it doesn't matter one way or another. The Bible says man isn't alive until he breathes...babies don't breathe, so you could say that the Bible says nothing of abortion...tho, I'm sure God wouldn't be so approving of the practice. Some in the catholic church have crazy ideas on that stuff anyhow- birth control a no-no? Great idea! You can't order someone to not call themselves Catholic, and call me crazy, but the catholic church puts way too much priority on the pope, who is a mere man. He holds no secret powers, he is no higher in the eyes of God than any other man. Some catholics look upon him as tho he is the second son of God sometimes, and that's just silly. So, let's stop putting so much into what the pope says...if we are to believe most of the reports about him, he can barely think for himself any longer, let alone make any real decisions- even if he could, that doesn't mean they would all be approved of by Christ himself. My main point is- you can't send someone a letter and tell them not to be catholic anymore. That's just ludicrous- and a big waste of time...
from the evangelical team leader e mail for april 21, 2003:
A Weekly Standard Exclusive: The Senate minority leader is ordered to stop calling himself a Catholic.
by J. Bottum
4/17/2003
Tom Daschle may no longer call himself a Catholic. The Senate minority leader and the highest ranking Democrat in Washington has been sent a letter by his home diocese of Sioux Falls, sources in South Dakota have told The Weekly Standard, directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church.
This isn't exactly excommunication--which is unnecessary, in any case, since Daschle made himself ineligible for communion almost 20 years ago with his divorce and remarriage to a Washington lobbyist. The directive from Sioux Falls' Bishop Robert Carlson is rather something less than excommunication--and, at the same time, something more: a declaration that Tom Daschle's religious identification constitutes, in technical Catholic vocabulary, a grave public scandal. He was brought up as a Catholic, and he may still be in some sort of genuine mental and spiritual relation to the Church. Who besides his confessor could say? But Daschle's consistent political opposition to Catholic teachings on moral issues--abortion, in particular--has made him such a problem for ordinary churchgoers that the Church must deny him the use of the word "Catholic."...
...Carlson later told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that he remains mystified by Daschle's position on abortion. "NARAL claims him as one of their number-one supporters. I don't understand how he can be in touch with South Dakotans as much as he is, and yet consistently have a pro-abortion record."...
There's quite a list of pro-abortion Catholics in Washington--beginning with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader in the House--who could use similar instruction in "the duty to be morally coherent." Just in the Senate, there's Biden, Collins, Daschle, Dodd, Harkin, Kennedy, Kerry, Landrieu, Leahy, Mikulski, Murray, Reed, and more. But at least Tom Daschle has now been forced by Bishop Carlson to assume some responsibility for moral coherence--even if it is, unfortunately, a coherence achieved in the wrong direction.
The diocese in Sioux Falls would not say what brought the issue of Tom Daschle's Catholicism to a head at this moment, although one South Dakotan suggested it may have to do with Daschle's crossing of yet another line recently when he began direct fund-raising for NARAL. Senator Daschle's office has not yet responded to a request for comment. It's a serious thing when a bishop breaks a pastoral relation, no matter how tenuous that relation may have grown. But Bishop Carlson is right that the time has come to banish Cuomoism from American politics. This isn't a matter of favoring Republicans or Democrats. Regardless of their party, public figures who aren't going to oppose abortion shouldn't call themselves Catholic anymore.
Posted by Josh at April 22, 2003 03:50 AMFULL STORY HERE