I just received news tonight that my Aunt Vivian, who is also my Godmother, has taken a precipitous turn and is unlikely to live more than one to three days. I’ll be taking some time away over the next few days to attend to family matters. May I ask that people lift up my aunt [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Prayer Request
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Euthanasia: The People of the Lie
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Euthanasia on December 30, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Want to kill your mother? Here is how one New York HMO tried to do it with my friend’s mom. Names have been changed to protect their privacy. This is malevolence as art. Clinical Background Mike’s mom, Betty, is 90 years old. In the past seven years she has had cancer and triple by-pass surgery. [...]
Coming Home’s Top Ten Posts of 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Top Ten Posts on December 30, 2010 |
I’m borrowing a practice from my friend Jill Stanek, who ends the year at her blog by looking at the Top Ten most read posts. (Imitation is the highest form of flattery, Jill). It’s a great idea to see what was of most interest to readers here at Coming Home during 2010. So here they [...]
Repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged DADT, Father Steven Clark, Military Chaplains on December 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The repeal of DADT will have far-reaching repercussions for the military chaplaincy, and makes the only acceptable expressions of morality those which are consistent with the provisions within Uniform Code of Military Justice. Father Steven Clark has an excellent letter in today’s Journal News. He speaks with a unique voice of authority. As a veteran [...]
Catholic Bishop Right to Push Back Against Culture of Death
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, tagged Abortion, Bishop Thomas Olmsted, ERD's, LifeNews.com, Saint Joseph's Hospital, Sister Margaret McBride on December 28, 2010 | 32 Comments »
My article in today’s LifeNews.com Bishop Thomas Olmsted, of the Phoenix, Arizona Diocese took the extraordinary step last week of removing Saint Joseph Hospital’s Catholic status. The measure comes after last May’s confrontation between Sister Margaret McBride, the hospital’s administrator who gave permission for an 11-week pregnant woman with a severe case of pulmonary hypertension [...]
Urbi et Orbi: Christmas, 2010
Posted in Christmas, tagged Pope Benedict XVI, Urbi et Orbi on December 25, 2010 |
From his Christmas Address Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World), Pope Benedict XVI: “The Incarnation is the culmination of creation. When Jesus, the Son of God incarnate, was formed in the womb of Mary by the will of the Father and the working of the Holy Spirit, creation reached its high point. [...]
Gentle Night
Posted in Christmas on December 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Midnight. Burning the advent wreath down with the Christ Candle lit in the center. Listening to boys air choirs sing the psalms as we wrap presents and get the children ready for bed. They’re too excited to sleep, though that’s coming fast. It’s the best part of Christmas for me. Looking at the Nativity set, [...]
Christmas: A Sermon of Pope Saint Leo the Great
Posted in Christmas, tagged Christmas Reading, Pope Saint Leo the Great on December 25, 2010 |
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings Reading A Sermon of Pope Saint Leo the Great Christian, remember your dignity Dearly beloved, today our Saviour is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life. The fear of death has been swallowed up; life brings us joy with [...]
My Christmas Card to All of Coming Home’s Family
Posted in Christmas on December 24, 2010 |
“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans–and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms [...]
Apollo 8 Christmas: Who We Are is Who We Were
Posted in Christmas, tagged Apollo 8 Genesis Reading on December 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was a little boy who listened to this broadcast live, and have never failed to be moved by it. Merry Christmas!
Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix Revokes St. Joseph Hospital’s Catholic Identity
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Bishop Thomas Olmsted, Catholic, Phoenix, R.S.M., Sister Margaret McBride, St. Joseph's Hospital on December 21, 2010 | 30 Comments »
Many will recall the battles earlier this year on this blog when I defended Bishop Olmsted for declaring that Sister Margaret McBride, R.S.M. excommunicated herself by approving an abortion at Saint Joseph’s. I wrote several posts on this issue: FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH SIXTH (How Catholic Bioethics is guided) SEVENTH (An article on Double-effect) [...]
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Posted in Advent, tagged The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on December 21, 2010 |
From today’s Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings St Ambrose’s commentary on St Luke’s Gospel The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary The angel Gabriel had announced the news of something that was as yet hidden and so, to buttress the Virgin Mary’s faith by means of a real example, he told her also [...]
The Madness of False Messiahs
Posted in Abortion, tagged Christine Quinn, George Tiller, Jessica Lappin on December 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
When Dr. George Tiller was murdered, there was a hastily gathered, yet spontaneous outpouring of grief in New York City’s Union Square. Many women carried the poster, pictured with its grief-stricken bearer to the left. How odd that this abortionist should have been grieved as no other. But George Tiller was no mere abortionist. He [...]
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Posted in Advent on December 20, 2010 |
When we light the Advent Wreath, we do so in a darkened house. It is the one time of year when I claim the privilege of saying the prayer as the children light the candles. As the weeks pass, as we approach the coming of The Light of the World, the table is bathed in [...]
Mary, Did you Know…?
Posted in Christmas on December 19, 2010 |
Mary was put through quite a bit. The apparition of an angel who tells her that she is to be mother of the Messiah. Her elderly cousin Elizabeth becomes pregnant, and her declaration that the babe of Mary’s womb is the Messiah. Elizabeth’s husband, a priest, struck mute by an angel in the Temple. The [...]
