Oct
6
Pitchforking Babies
October 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Within seconds of publishing the previous post, I read this wonderful piece by Tom Kreitzberg. Tom is talking about the “logical standards” that it is tempting to apply in every day conversations and he raises the question of how reasonable (!) it is to have such expectations in such conversations:
Not that I deny there is [...]
Oct
6
More Muddled Thought
October 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment
There is a report today at CNS about “Cardinal Mario Pompedda, the retired head of the Apostolic Signature, the Vatican’s supreme court,” who “said Catholics might find sufficient reasons to consider such a candidate a ‘lesser evil’ in a field of imperfect choices.” This contradicts the opinions of some American Cardinals and Bishops, who agree [...]