Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Dems in Congress are getting ready a Catholic Scorecard so they can compare their voting records to those of Republicans on issues identified as a high priority by the USCCB. I quote: …the scorecard will compare the votes of Catholic members of both parties on a issues defined as legislative priorities by the US Conference…

Finally!!!! On Friday the Vatican is going to release the follow-up document to the Encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharista. That was an 87 page letter to the Church on the importance and meaning of the Eucharist. This new document is supposed to set out disciplinary norms to govern liturgical abuse. I don’t know about you, but…

OK… OK… So, it’s been several days since I posted something. Had a busy end of the week and lots went by that I wished I had commented on. Ah well. Something I do want to explore is something I heard on Radio Replies on Friday. Radio Replies is a great, old Q&A program with…

Well, it’s about time! I have read numerous articles, web pages and a couple of books about the Catholic response to the End Times Fevor, but I don’t think a single one came from the episcopate. Finally you get that from Living Light, the official quarterly publication of the US Bishop’s Dept. of Education. Get…

Well… Not exactly. Turns out though that the international bureaucrats at the UN really would like us all to just get along. At a recent conference, they proposed that all religions stop proselityzing and accecpt that all religions get their truth from the same source. Ooooookay. Francis Cardinal Arinze (who I got to meet and…

That title pretty much sums up modern feelings about Western religion, I think. In Catholicism we see not just the advent, but the acceptance, of cafeteria-Catholics. In Anglicanism we see the slow but steady discarding of ancient moral standards, beginning with the acceptance of divorce at its beginning and on to contraception, ordaining women and…

OK… Maybe that’s too harsh a headline. But I doubt it. Read what he says about Catholic pols and the Eucharist. This is what is wrong with the hierarchy in my opinion. They are not willing to be martyrs. Martyrs are witnesses to the faith. That’s the origin of the word. The whole idea that…

Happy Easter everyone… Went to the Vigil Mass last night. We had a huge group (for us) coming into the Church at our parish. We had 5 baptized adults, 6 un-baptized and 5 children. I feel a special affinity for this Mass since I am also a convert. Love the “extras”… the incense… the extra…

The NY Times reports that John F. Kerry has received communion at the Paulist Center where he and his wife regularly attend. It’s described as a New Age church and also in other ways that hardly make it sound Catholic in communion with Rome. Anyway I knew this was coming and it doesn’t surprise me.…

My wife emailed these to me a couple of days ago. She’s a good sport. Of course she’d have to be… She’s married to me. 🙂 She even admits that several of these are dead on true. God love her! The Guys’ Rules At last a guy has taken the time to write this all…