Appleby on the Air

Earl Appleby, of Life Matters! and numerous other weblogs, writes today:

I will be interviewed regarding the fight for Terri and euthanasia on the Steve Kane Show on WNN, 1470 AM, South Florida, at 7:30 am ET tomorrow [Fri. Feb. 25]. The nationwide toll-free call-in number is 877-275-2326. I would love to hear from you or any of your readers, who may also listen to the broadcast online.

Please pray that the Holy Ghost may guide my poor words in defense of life.

These would appear to be appropriate links:

• WWNN
• SteveKaneShow

God bless and inspire Earl on the radio.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/24/05 09:44:58 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.

"On Hearing Of Our Holy Father's Sickness"

A poem by John Hearn.

On Hearing Of Our Holy Father's Sickness

Pilgrim in white,
How many roads have you walked down
For the gospel's sake?
How many pangs of hurt and sickness
Offered up for this dark world?
Now as gray darkens past twilight
And the first stars witness against
The black of a day's dying,
I fear that you will soon reach your pilgrim's goal
And take the bit of my heart
With you
That won't wait for this slow son of yours
To reclaim it from your hand.

See also these.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/24/05 06:15:28 PM
Categorized as Literary & Religious.

So, Where's That New Sedition Act?

Ward Churchill shouldn't be fired: he should be jailed.

Get a load of this — Churchill, August 10, 2003, at Left Bank Book Store in Seattle:

.... You don’t send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action. You don’t send the American Indian Movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action. Who do you send? You. Your beard shaved, your hair cut close, and wearing a banker’s suit.

There’s probably a whole lot more to it, you know that. But there’s where you start....

And why by the way did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?....

Unfortunately, it will take another successful terrorist attack on us before we realize the importance of jailing seditious traitors, even — or especially? — academics who countenance violence against the country in which they live comfortably, if not luxuriously, as hypocritical subversive parasites.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/24/05 05:58:14 PM
Categorized as Political.

"Under the Winter, Dear"

Random Poetry List XV

Under the Winter, dear,
Summer's note lieth:
If it be sweet to hear,
Song never dieth.

Soon in the forest, love,
Breezes shall bear it;
There, in the bough above,
Lo, thou shalt hear it.

Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845-1907)

Originally e-mailed on Wednesday, Saturday, February 24, 2001 @ 2:10 PM.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/24/05 05:33:35 PM
Categorized as Literary & Random Poetry List.

"Objections, Obstacles, Acceptance"

Ignatius Insight interviews J. Budziszewski, Feb. 2005:

During the 1990s, J. Budziszewski rose to prominence as one of the leading intellectual lights among Evangelical Christians in America. A political theorist with a special interest in the natural-law tradition, he was highly sought as a speaker at conferences organized by groups such as the InterVarsity Fellowship and Campus Crusade for Christ. A principal theme of his many talks to American campus groups is captured in the title of his 1999 book, How to Stay Christian in College.

For some Evangelical Protestants, then, it came as a jolt when, on Easter Sunday 2004, Budziszewski was received into the Catholic Church. After maintaining a public silence about his conversion for several months, Budziszewski agreed to tell the story to CWR.

J. Budziszewski teaches in the departments of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recently books are What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide (Spence, 2004) and The Revenge of Conscience (Spence, 2004)....

I had the common Protestant idea that Catholicism teaches "works-righteousness" – that we earn our way into heaven, apart from the merits of Christ – that if we just earn enough "virtue points," we’re in. It took a long time to get over such misunderstandings....

Although we continued to disagree with a number of Catholic dogmas, we suffered a growing suspicion that where we disagreed, it was we who were wrong, not the Church....

The signal we were waiting for came unmistakably during the summer of 2003. It was bad enough that the Episcopal general convention ordained as bishop a man who had abandoned his wife and children in order to live in sin with another man. That might have been viewed as an aberration. Much worse was the fact that the general convention authorized drawing up rites for the blessing of same-sex unions. That converted the aberration into a rule.

But the signal turned out to have been unnecessary, because we had already crossed our Rubicon. That summer, we visited an Episcopal church in another town. No sooner had we entered than we encountered a "tract table" offering visitors free pro-abortion bumper stickers bearing the Episcopal shield....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/24/05 07:26:06 AM
Categorized as Religious.

The Latest Terri News

Over at Thrown Back.

Fr. Rob Johansen reports, yesterday:

Mary Schindler informed me a little while ago that Judge Greer has extended the stay on removal of Terri's feeding tube... until 5:00 PM Friday. Judge Greer did not make any rulings today, but said he needed more time to consider the arguments, and would issue a ruling on Friday.

In a surprise move which, so far, none of the news services seem to have reported, an attorney from the Florida Department of Children & Family was present in Judge Greer's courtroom, and indicated that that Department intended to intervene in Terri's case....

He also notes, the other day, that an article of his is now available on line.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/24/05 07:13:26 AM
Categorized as Political & Social/Cultural.

"Dead of Winter"

Random Poetry List XIV

Dead of Winter

Your clear hands call my name.
They dance in the dark light of the fire
With the odor of oakwood and roses
And death. Dead of winter.

What became of the starving birds?
They fell into a waste of snow.
So it is with words.
They flash like sudden angels, go
Away like ghosts. So with the trees
And us, too, made of morning breeze.

Salvatore Quasimodo (Italian, 1901-1968)

Originally e-mailed on Wednesday, February 24, 1999 @ 9:39 PM.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/24/05 07:02:00 AM
Categorized as Literary & Random Poetry List.