Why I don’t quit the Catholic Church
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Each time I express an irritation with the Catholic Church, a few friends will write, in assorted ways, “why not just leave?”
The Catholic Hierarchy goes to war…against me, a Catholic who happens to disagree with them
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Today at Mass at Basilica came the expected Declaration of War (my interpretation) by the Catholic Hierarchy against the majority of us in the pews and not, who do not buy the promulgated line. Continue Reading
Beginning a week with MLK; Ending a week with OWS
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Thursday night I was part of a near overflow crowd as Prof. David Schultz of Hamline University spoke on the topic “Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the Twilight of American Capitalism“. Continue Reading
Haiti: Thoughts on the second anniversary of the earthquake
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There are, of course, many perspectives about realities in Haiti. Following are three for the second anniversary of the earthquake, January 12, 2010. Comments are solicited. Access here.
Martin Luther King, “Where do we go from here?”
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Sunday morning at Basilica of St. Mary, Fr. Greg Miller chose to close his homily with an extended quote from Martin Luther King’s talk to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 16 August 1967. Continue Reading
The Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, March 1-3, 2012
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I’d encourage your participation in the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Augsburg College, March 1-3, 2012. Details are here, and more suggestions are in the last paragraph of this post. Here is some background.
Background
Some scary things about the political theater in Iowa
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Kurt Ullrich of Maquoketa, Iowa, in the December 31 Minneapolis Star Tribune, caught very well tomorrows Iowa Precinct Caucus vote. It is in this column, “Sliding through Iowa like so many trombones”. If we could stop reality with the illusion of Prof. Continue Reading
Drones, Chapter two
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In “The Drones”, published a week ago today, was one crucial paragraph: “However limited, there is room for conversation among people willing to listen to each other, and considering other points of view. But one can’t have such a conversation in separate rooms.”
On military drones
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Earlier today I was at the annual meeting of an organization I’ve long been part of called the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers. One of the group rose to ask the speaker a question about the new proposal relating to drones in Thief River Falls MN. Continue Reading
The 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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It is not hard for me to remember Pearl Harbor Day. Seventy years ago my Dad’s brother, my Uncle Frank, near the end of his 6th year on the USS Arizona, lost his life aboard the ship. I’m old enough to have “met” him, in Long Beach CA, five months before he died. Continue Reading