Positivity: Pope Delivers Homily Extemporaneously

By Simon Caldwell  | Daily Mail Roman Catholic priests have been banned from using ‘heterosexist’ language in their churches in case they offend gay worshippers. They have been told by their bishops not to assume that every churchgoer is a heterosexual and to reflect this ‘in language and conversation’. ‘Remember that homophobic jokes and asides can be cruel and hurtful  -  a careless word can mean another experience of rejection and pain,’ say th... more

My notes on the first reading from Isaiah can be found HERE . This current post is a commentary on the entire Psalm, given by Pope John Paul II during his last series of Wednesday Audiences. Those audiences were dedicated to the Morning and Evening prayers of the Divine Office. The Holy Father died before he was able to finish, Pope Benedict completed the series. Links to these commentaries/meditations, arranged according to their usage in the divine office, can be found HERE . A lin... more

Pope Benedict XVI has condemned as “cruel and senseless” the “brutal terrorist attacks” in India and the sectarian fighting Nigeria that have killed hundreds this week.... more

RedState and the Traditional Values Coalition have what they are saying is the original cut of the portions of “The Path to 9/11″ that those who want to prevent its airing are objecting to: – RedState (HT Hot Air) – Traditional Values Coalition (site may be overloaded or down) It’s broken up into six segments of maybe 3-4 [...]... more

This surely should be one of the 10 Commandments of Politics — Before you criticize your opponent (link requires registration) for a speech he made eight years ago, make sure you didn’t send him an e-mail at the time shortly thereafter lauding him for his “eloquence and ‘moral authority’”: Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont, who recently [...]... more

Item — New York Post, Sept. 7, 2006: Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden and that a top adviser pulled the plug on CIA operatives who were just moments away from bagging the terror master, according to [...]... more