Star Wars: The Force Awakens

John and I went to see Star Wars:  The Force Awakens yesterday.  We went to the IMAX 3D experience.  It was awesome!  If you at all liked the original Star Wars trilogy, I highly recommend this movie.  They did a great job with the story and with the filming.  I can't wait for the next one now!

325 Miles

I completed a 4 mile run yesterday.  This pushed my total for 2015 to 325 miles - my longest since I have been tracking.  I set a goal to run 350 miles in 2016.  Wish me luck!

Great Homily by Fr. Fox: Prepare for the coming persecution

Please check out this excellent homily by Fr. Martin Fox:

Bonfire of the Vanities: Prepare for the coming persecution (Sunday homily)

I'm a Fundamentalist, Too!

Here's a great quote from Cardinal Raymond Burke:

"If it's being fundamentalist to hold strictly to the teaching on marriage well then I'm happy to be a fundamentalist."

He said this during an interview on EWTN's The World Over on October 9, 2014.  You can view the full interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCl5NLs81M

#1m1w

Good Explanation of Why Marriage is One Man, One Woman

Fr. Fox has a good explanation here of why marriage is only between one man and one woman (along with a number of related Catholic teachings).  Here is an excerpt:

If Natural Law is jettisoned, with it goes the sex-always-open-to-procreation part. That means contraception is OK. So why shouldn't people have all the sex they want before marriage? Why shouldn't adultery be simply a matter of concern for the couple? I.e., if they consent, is it still immoral?

And, of course, out goes any notion that it homosexuality matters. But why should incest matter? Polygamy? Again, if there is consent, on what basis would any part of the Christian Church teach that any sexual act is immoral? At best, you would have to say, it was immoral because you didn't use "protection."

All those who hope or fear the Catholic Church will change in this area? Abandon all hope or fear. The Church will not. Because she cannot. There is no coherence to her Faith if she were to do so.

The Progressive Psalm

Obama is my Shepherd; I shall not work.

He maketh me to lie down and watch Oprah;
He leadeth me beside the still factories.
He restoreth my bling;
He leadeth me in the paths of idleness for Barrack’s™ name sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the sharing of the wealth,
I will fear no workfare: For thou art funding me;
Thy gat and thy blade, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of people who actually produce;
Thou annointest my teeth with gold; My pipe runneth over.
Surely rebates and Earned Income Credits shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Obama forever.

(I saw this in someone's comment on a Yahoo! news article and I just had to share it!)

Congressman Coffman on DoD's Misinterpretation of the Pay Our Military Act (H.R. 3210)

Here is what Congressman Coffman (the original sponsor of H.R. 3210) had to say about DoD's apparently intentional limiting of the Pay Our Military Act which resulted in the illegal furlough of DoD civilian employees:


My initial question is why DOJ attorneys were involved in this decision at all, as DoD has its own attorneys. DOJ attorneys are notoriously partisan (think deciding whether to enforce the law or not, enforcing the Obama contraception mandate by trying to require nuns to pay for contraceptive and abortion-inducing drugs, the list could go on and on). I smell a skunk....

Thank you, Congressman Coffman.