Journeys of a Catholic Poster Girl

So the ACLU wants to release the names of doctors involved in executions around the country (this coming after another “botched” execution in my fair state…geez, if missing a vein for IV placement is “cruel and unusual punishment,” then every hospital in America is violating the Constitution on a regular basis). Doctors and others are against this because the American Medical Association (AMA) has threatened them with sanctions for violating the first rule of their Hippocratic Oath: “First do no harm.”

YET…

The Hippocratic Oath specifically forbids performing abortions, but the AMA isn’t sanctioning abortionists. Hmmm.

Like I say, if you’re going to be pro-life, gotta do it all the way. I am against the Death Penalty and abortion. And I am not surprised to find the left talking out of both sides of its mouth. Again.

to Guiliani. Woohoo!

As if I didn’t have enough to read this summer (when can you ever have enough, I ask you?), this looks awesome!

Check out these books and go vote! I have read The Man Who Was Thursday and Swimming with Scapulars, so I was biased towards those. But I have always wanted to read Strangers and Sojourners.

On the saints that were beatified Sunday:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-06-03-saints_N.ht m 

H/t Amy:

From here

Pope Benedict XVI plans to proclaim a year dedicated to St. Paul, in preparation for the 2,000th anniversary of the apostle’s birth, the Vatican said.

The pope was scheduled to announce the commemorative year at a vespers service June 28 in the Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome, on the eve of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The Pauline Year will run from June 29, 2008, to June 29, 2009, according to information published in a Vatican Radio calendar. No details were immediately available about possible events during the year.

St. Paul was born in Tarsus, in what is now Turkey, at the start of the Christian era, about 10 A.D., according to church historians. After his conversion on the road to Damascus, he became one of the church’s foremost evangelizers, first among Jews, then among Gentiles.

St. Paul’s letters are a primary source of information about the life of the early church and have strongly influenced church thinking through the centuries.

In his first official visit outside the Vatican in April 2005, Pope Benedict went to the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls to pray at the tomb of the apostle and pay homage to his legacy of spreading the Gospel.

“The church is, by its nature, missionary; its primary task is evangelization,” the pope said on that occasion.

“At the beginning of the third millennium, the church feels with renewed strength that Christ’s missionary mandate is more pressing than ever,” he said.

From Adoro:

…discernment is not a job search. Hard work may be required, but more importantly, prayer is needed. Good research may be needed and helpful, but if God is excluded from the search and discernment becomes all about qualifications, it ain’t gonna happen.

Yet I could not keep that tendency to want to be in the driver’s seat out of my discernment, so God used that as a lesson for me; every time I wanted to do something, like go on a Search and Discover retreat, or go visit a couple communities for a discernment retreat, it wouldn’t work out!

And I knew that as things weren’t working, I needed to slow down. I realized I was trying to be in charge, but God was trying to tell me to stop and listen, not charge full-steam ahead. So I listened, and I backed down, having an interior knowledge that the time wasn’t right.

Go read the whole thing.

“For this meme, each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.”

**I must read something before I go to bed at night. Even if it’s only for a few minutes, I cannot go to bed without reading.

**I make really, really good pasta, taught to me by my father and he learned from his mother/grandmother before him. So, therefore, I am making you REAL Italian pasta and not this quasi-pasta stuff so many places give you!

**I love to scrapbook and take pictures.

**I cannot draw.

**I always got “refrains from unnecessary talking” checked on my grade school report cards. It didn’t do much to stop the habit, apparently.

**I bite my nails. Always have. Always will. Can’t stop.

**My first theatrical role was as Snow White in my preschool’s Parents’ Day production. I got nervous and hid behind the kitchen set.

**My middle name is spelled with only one “l”. People mess that up a lot. But not as often as they mispronounce/misspell my last name. That’s annoying because it’s not that hard!

Um, I don’t know eight people to tag. So hmmm. Anyone who feels like it. But come back here and let me know you did it.