tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post2687362388410196555..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Coffee Cup BrowsingFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-89292819056886942772012-04-26T18:39:52.712-05:002012-04-26T18:39:52.712-05:00I'm in LA now. In between film projects, I ha...I'm in LA now. In between film projects, I have witnessed a lot of really good people working here, and the archbishop gives some solid teaching through the web and letters for us all. We have five regional auxiliaries here. I barely know all that's going on in my parish in a given day! Give the archbishop time.<br /><br />Also, apropos of St. Martin... his 50th anniversary of canonization is coming up! W00t! Hope you guys are having a good celebration!fr. Dismas, OPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-22731719176661959372012-04-26T13:05:20.465-05:002012-04-26T13:05:20.465-05:00Will, I'm not doubt the Good Archbishop at all...Will, I'm not doubt the Good Archbishop at all. . .I'm just pointing out that many thought we'd get the Big Crackdown the after he took office.<br /><br />Anon., there's nothing like the righteous passions of a "victimized" cliche unleashed upon the world by well-meaning ninnies.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-20027781693634478112012-04-26T10:01:31.453-05:002012-04-26T10:01:31.453-05:00RE the proposed Kansas law: Although a gay man, an...RE the proposed Kansas law: Although a gay man, and happy to be so, I am not in favor of same-sex marriage. Marriage is about opposite sex bonding for family, as much as fatherhood is about male parenting and motherhood about female parenting. Not interchangeable. As well, I do not think a heterosexual institution suits the kinds of bonds that men actually make with each other. To me, it's straight drag.<br /><br />But my real point is my profound disappointment at how tyrannical the gay-lesbian (nevermind bisexual and transgender, etc!) leadership and culture has become. Like so much of liberal and lefty America, what started out as a press for freedom from oppressive law and public opprobrium has become a strident, no-compromise, grimly self-righteous, vengeful and utterly Statist drive for dominance. <br /><br />I saw that happening with Blacks and women but did not think that we would do it. But I was wrong. <br /><br />And it has made me think, with Barry Goldwater, that the much lauded Civil Rights Act of 64 was a bad mistake. The situation needed changing, but that legal means fostered the opportunity for the whole Orwellian web of liberal regulation we now suffer under. <br /><br />I am especially grieved, and ashamed, that people who are like me should have been caught up in it. Becoming the very much like the folks we first fought against.<br /><br />But as CG Jung knew, inside every victim is a tyrant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-84597818701404628062012-04-26T09:44:54.113-05:002012-04-26T09:44:54.113-05:00Just reading that blurb about the Earth Gaia wound...Just reading that blurb about the Earth Gaia wounding apprenticing thingy made my testosterone level drop. Living proof of what a disaster female ordination would be.OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-68567877031592808422012-04-26T07:54:02.032-05:002012-04-26T07:54:02.032-05:00Regarding the L.A. Diocese and Archbishop Gomez--t...Regarding the L.A. Diocese and Archbishop Gomez--things here do seem to be slowly changing for the better. L.A. is a massive diocese, and you can't get rid of all the goofy all at once. I rather expect that if you tried to initiate The Great Crackdown, you'd do more harm than good. But our Archbishop seems to me be leading his flock in the right direction.Will Duquettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842496412575851453noreply@blogger.com