July 31, 2009
I just got a letter in the mail from the Vocations Office. Mentioned in the letter is that this year there are 12 men entering the seminary for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia this year, with 3 others still waiting review. This is apparently a record in recent years, which is great news!
Please pray for them (us), especially during the next month as opening day approaches.
July 17, 2009
Pope Benedict suffered a fall while on his annual Summer vacation. Looks like he ended up with a fractured wrist, and required surgery at a local hospital. What’s particularly interesting, at least to me, is that while he was in the hospital, he refused any preferential treatment and waited his turn behind all the other patients. I think that’s wonderful.
Though I don’t know how I’d feel if I were in the ER and one of the people ahead of His Holiness in line. I’m sure His Holiness wasn’t just sitting in the waiting room like all the other patients for security reasons, but still, I can see myself trying to convince the triage nurse that I was fine and let the man in white go ahead.
Two more comments. 1) clearly this is an example of the last shall be first and the first shall be last.
2) Maybe this can be a lesson for some of our own political elite here in the USA. They’ve got their private doctors and get rush treatment for everything. Maybe if a few Senators or Presidents had to wait in line at the local ER, we’d get better solutions to our health care problems.
In any case, let’s say a prayer for the recovery of the Holy Father and one of thanksgiving that this fall wasn’t any more serious.
July 10, 2009
Various blogs are all over this, but of course our friends at the MSM are not going to raise an eyebrow (they’re still looking for Michael Jackson’s casket I suppose). Ruth Bader Ginsburg, discussing her surprise at an early-80’s Supreme Court decision that held Medicaid was not required to fund abortions, made the following comment:
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Funny. You would think someone of Jewish descent — who has spoken about antisemitism when she was growing up “in the shadow of World War II” — would be a little more careful when talking about wanting to wipe out populations that a government or society “do[es]n’t want to have too many of.”
July 9, 2009
So I put in my resignation a few days ago. And as expected, it was a total shock to a lot of people.
I heard, secondhand, that one of the project managers I work with was discussing this with another, and all he could say was “wow. We’re losing a great resource.” I replied that I’m a human being, not a coal mine or a library.
That’s the corporate mentality. We are all just “resources” to be drawn upon as needed. When one is no longer available, it just means its time to find another one somewhere. If one is no longer needed, we get rid of it.
Is it any wonder the pro-life movement has so many roadblocks? If we can’t even recognize an adult worker as a human being, how are we going to recognize an unborn child as the same?
