I’ve decided to have a little fun and create an award for the coconut pro-abortion apologists who spout the most anti-scientific nonsense in the headlong pursuit of butchering babies. Welcome the Golden Coconut to Coming Home. This is a serious monthly award. Please email your candidates for the end-of -the-month award to be given on [...]
Archive for November, 2010
The Criminality of Unaborted Children
Posted in Golden Coconut Award on November 30, 2010 | 109 Comments »
Philip Johnson’s Novena: Night Two
Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2010 |
Tonight is night two of the Novena for Philip Gerard Johnson. Please Join us in prayer. May I respectfully and humbly ask that we all join in prayer for this special seminarian, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. From the Diocese of Raleigh: The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Raleigh, has [...]
Pope Benedict XVI Homily: Vigil for All Nascent Human Life
Posted in Abortion, tagged Homily, Pope Benedict XVI, Vigil for Al Nascent Human Life on November 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
November 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On Saturday evening Pope Benedict XVI held an unprecedented “vigil for all nascent human life” at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The vigil was held in union with thousands of similar events in parishes and dioceses across the world. At the request of the Holy Father, a letter had been [...]
Homily for November 28, 2010: 1st Sunday of Advent
Posted in Advent, tagged Advent, Cherpumple, Christmas, Deacon Greg Kandra on November 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Deacon Greg Kandra is ordained and ministers in the Diocese of Brooklyn. He writes a fantastic blog, The Deacon’s Bench, at Beliefnet. His Homily for today, the First Sunday of Advent, is a stunner. It is reprinted here with Deacon Kandra’s permission. . . . . Homily for November 28, 2010: 1st Sunday of Advent [...]
Joining the Pope in Prayer for the Child of the Womb
Posted in Abortion, Dignity on November 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Abortion Distortion: The Fog of Human Despair
Posted in Abortion, tagged Abortion, Florence Thomas on November 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Pro-abortion, feminist psychologist Florence Thomas has recently created a stir with the publication of her own experience with abortion. Among other noteworthy quotes, Thomas describes the child of the womb as a “tumor”, and that it is the love of the mother which “humanizes” the baby. Read the rest here. “I remember the nights of [...]
A Very Special Advent Prayer Request
Posted in Advent, tagged Diocese of Raleigh, Philip Johnson on November 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
May I respectfully and humbly ask that we all join in prayer for this special seminarian, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. From the Diocese of Raleigh: The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Raleigh, has requested in a letter that all the Priests, Religious and lay faithful in the Diocese of [...]
Condoms: The Magisterium Behind Bars
Posted in Condoms, tagged Archbishop Dolan, Condoms, New York Times, Pope Benedict XVI on November 26, 2010 | 18 Comments »
This photoshopped picture, swiped from a hate-filled site, is actually quite the catechetical tool in light of the recent dust-up on the Pope’s comments about condoms. New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan said something rarely uttered in public during an interview published on November 22 in the New York Times. From the article, which can be [...]
Advent and the Soul of a Scientist
Posted in Abortion, Advent on November 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
From the Gospel of John, Chapter 17:14-23 (New Jerusalem Translation) “I passed your word on to them, and the world hated them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong to the world. I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One. [...]
A History of Gratitude
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Thanksgiving on November 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another lull, more time for reflection. This celebration today is all the more poignant when we consider the great example set by our forebears. Thanksgiving has always followed unspeakable horror and national calamity. Many today look about and bitterly ask what we have to be grateful for, given the sate of the nation. Many are [...]
This Year’s Christmas Card
Posted in Christmas, tagged Christmas, Sigrid Undset on November 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent, and time for me to get going on printing my Christmas cards and start sending them out early for a change. So here is this year’s card, complete with cover graphic and message inside. The graphic is a Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Sign, with the description and explanation [...]
Thanksgiving
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The longer I live, the more I come to appreciate that gratitude is the key to mental and spiritual health. It’s the necessary prerequisite for submission to God’s will for us. He has given me all that I need, and I have learned to stop asking and start praising more. The hindsight that comes with [...]
My Thanks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Thanksgiving on November 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s late on Thanksgiving Eve, and we’re preparing for tomorrow’s dinner. A lull in the action and a few moments of quiet contemplation. Coming Home turns one year old on December 13, and has received over 120,000 visits in that time. I honestly never imagined that the scientific data would have been so very much [...]
Prayer at Harvest and Thanksgiving
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2010 |
O God, source and giver of all things, You manifest your infinite majesty, power and goodness In the earth about us: We give you honor and glory. For the sun and the rain, For the manifold fruits of our fields: For the increase of our herds and flocks, We thank you. For the enrichment of [...]
The Pope and Rain Gear
Posted in Bishops, Condoms, tagged Condoms, HIV, Pope Benedict XVI on November 23, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Many have written asking for my take on the Pope’s comments about condom usage. I cannot, and will not comment on the moral dimensions of this issue as regards the use of condoms in light of Humanae Vitae. However, I think there is a scientfic dimension that has been overlooked here, and that dimension yields [...]
