I was reading in the comments of The American Papist that when someone tried to specifically flag one of the videos as “hate speech,” You Tube (owned by Google, remember,) stated that Catholics are not a “protected group” and therefore are not covered by any of the site’s anti-hate-speech rules. So much for Google’s policy of “Do No Evil.” (Then again, I started to suspect that was a load of crock when they agreed to censure search results in China.)

Ack, Java class is starting. I’ll rant more later. >_>

What the dilly is up with Washington? Guliani (alright, he’s out of the picture, but still,) Pelosi, Durbin (I’m ashamed to say that he’s ours, too, along with Obama,) Kennedy, Biden, etc. etc. etc. What part of YOU CAN’T BE CATHOLIC AND PRO-ABORTION is so hard for these people to understand?!?!?! I don’t want McCain to win, either, but he’s better than Obama. Usually in this situation, I look at the Constitution Party, but I don’t know…. The Libertarian candidate is pro-death, as far as I know, so that’s out… Oi… The one thing I consider a non-option is NOT voting. I’ll write in Donald Duck if I have to. :p

ADD is kicking in…*Wanders off to play with shiny objects.*

OK, these freaks would raise Cain if the Cardinal were to intrude one of THEIR meetings, but disrupt the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass? Sure! Where we are to be our MOST humble, they can only think about their own “cause” and their own self-posturing. My choice of Current Music was not without forethought. I’m actually really glad this article did not try to make these schmucks out to be martyrs. For anyone who’s read The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis, this makes me think of when Screwtape tells Wormwood to make sure that the Patient’s “faith” goes no deeper than “Christianity and the Cause.” Always Christianity and _____ (insert war, peace, whatever you want here,) where Christ and His word and preaching and His Church are only worth anything to the extent that they can be sacrificed on the altar of the Cause. Catholic Social Teaching is only worth something when it’s Iraq; turn to Roe vs. Wade, homosexual “marriage,” or anything like that, and all that nice rhetoric dries up QUICK.

I’d rant more, but I’ve homework.

NOTE: the above is cut-and-pasted from my Live Journal. Current Music was Plus One’s cover of “Here I Am to Worship.” I also note the cut-pastage in clase things don’t format right once I actually click Publish. I don’t have time at the moment to putz with it to make it look like it ought. Sorry!

Oh, and for anyone wondering, Notre Dame rejected me. Nothing more to say on that than that.

Native American “Land Blessing” ceremony.
I know we don’t have a chaplin here and have to beg the Diocese for visiting priests, but still… >_> This is put on by the Women’s Studies Center, since they’re feeling guilty for being white again. (DUDE, your DNA is what it is. Just because my ancestors did something wrong doesn’t mean I have to apologize as if I am the guilty one.) And they know they can get away with it. The junk on this campus gets worse because THEY KNOW THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!

“Transgender” day of “awareness.”
Given that this is a (technically) CATHOLIC college, the problem here should be able to go without saying. Yes, even one “transgendered” person being murdered is horrible; murder always is and our disgust with it should be blind to categories like that, BUT the way The Alliance is manipulating propaganda, you would think it rivals lynchings of African Americans during the civil rights movement of our parents’ generation. I even hesitate to use the GLBT acronym in my tags, but I figured it was short and would cover a wide range of posts on idiocy in that “movement.” Then again, none of these movements contrary to God can survive without stopping to such.

Anyway, a Systems Analysis II midterm is calling me.

God bless!!! ^_^

I swear if it wasn’t at least venially sinful, I’d smack some of the folks on one of the boards I’ve been following this on.  GOOD WORD you’d think they were mini-Popes the way they ring down condemnations.  Ugh.

Anyway, a mini-h week (purgatory week?) has begun in my academic life, so I’ll have to leave it at that.  I WANT to write more, but if I start ranting, this will take forever.  :p

That said, onto the main point of this post.

I already posted last week about the immature vandalism of part of the display for Pro-Life Awareness Week here.  Well, the campus paper today ran an editorial that made me positivly livid.  (By “editorial,” I mean an official position statement of the paper itself, no name assigned to it.)  The “Cliff’s Notes” version is that the paper does not think our yearly pro-life week should be allowed to happen.  They even twist the words of our Holy Father to implicate his disagreement!  Sick!  >_<  Furthermore, they claim the week is a violation of the “Dominican heratige” of the college.  (Quotes used because that “heretage” is almost always a perversion thereof whenever the school mentions it.)  The article also implied that our cross display was “threatening” to pregnant students.  ばかだよ！

Besides the expected Letter to the Editor, I’m starting to contemplate writing the Bishop of the Diocese.  Do I think it’s going to do a scrap of good?  Crud no; this Bishop is as spineless as the horror stories you hear about no-knees Bishops.  However, I can at least say I “put my money where my mouth is.”  Blah.

Is there anything I should know for writing a Bishop?  Terms of address or other such things?  Comments appreciated.

God Bless!  ^_^

Where from comes this lovely sentiment? Well, my children, (who are probably older than I…) let me tell you a story.

Every year, the week after fall break at this college is Students for Life’s Pro-Life Awareness week. Every year, we put simple white, wooden crosses out in the grassy area by the statue of Mary, known to those at the school as “touchdown Mary.” The sign out there varies, usually some statistic, but it makes the purpose of the crosses plain. This year’s sign read, “1 out of every 4 pregnancies ends in abortion. Who’s missing from your life?” (Our president came up with that. The VP, yours truly, has about as much creativity as an orange peel.)

Every year, (I’m a fifth-year senior,) I hear rumors that the pro-abortion segment of the campus (the majority,) is going to put coat hangers on the display, vandalize it. Well, my first two years saw no protests that I noticed, and junior year it was mainly our fliers for events that week being ripped down. Immature, but whatever. Last year, on Wednesday of the week, (a day there are many fewer people on campus, which made their choice seem funny, though it IS also a day fewer people are in class,) there were students standing in front of the display all day holding pro-abortion signs and all that. A few of them made me laugh because I wanted to say, “EXACTLY!” Signs like, “It’s not your body!” Duh! Not your body, either! It’s another body, an innocent child’s, being dismembered in the womb. There was a letter written to the editor of the newspaper by an outraged student, and I agreed with that letter, but I knew the response that was going to come, and did the next issue. Another letter basically told that student where he could stick his views, and I have it on trustworthy authority that most of the faculty and staff believed the same. (Can you tell this “Catholic” campus is extremely liberal?)

So what happened this year, you may be asking? Well, Wednesday was uneventful, and the SFL pres and I both felt we must have dodged a bullet. Wrong. This afternoon, I was walking from my dorm to the student cafeteria for our speaker for the week, (”How Abortion Affects Men,” very good talk by a post-abortive couple; they had aborted two children (conceived in wedlock) and now have two about my age, a little younger,) and I walked past our cross display. This year, my fears of vandalism were more for the Memorial for the Unborn by the chapel, but that’s college property, so I guess in that sense the pro-death side isn’t always as dumb as it usually acts. Anyway, I see a huge sign in the ground that seems to obscure our smaller sign in the cross display. The sign gives some WHO stat about a number of women dead from illegal abortions (conveniently neglecting giving it any context that would put it in some kind of context,) and a coat hanger attached to the sign. Already, my blood pressure is up and I can hear my heart pounding in my ears. Naturally, I walk closer. COAT HANGERS ALL OVER THE CROSSES. This was done in front of the building where most of the PhDs have their offices, and I’ve no doubt someone probably saw something, but due to aforementioned liberal bias of the campus, deliberately chose not to act. I took pictures for evidence on my cell phone, and then went to the speaker. Appraised our president and staff sponsor (all clubs need either a faculty member or a staff member to sponsor the club,) of the situation, and she mentioned it to one of our theology profs. (The theology department here is golden; as one of my friends puts it, a real “diamond in the rough,” and dang is it rough going here most of the time.) The look on the professors face was one of profound disappointment. Anyway, our staff sponsor called….someone, probably to report the flagrant vandalism.

The happy end of this, though, is that a few of my friends went and took down the whole mess (and one “clepto-ed” the hangers for her own personal use :p ) and took the sign to the house that is my dorm. After we’d taken down the entire cross display (we were required to today instead of tomorrow, since our new president is being inaugurated tomorrow and a pro-life display might offend some donor >_> ) our president and her husband took the sign back to their place. The poles’ll probably be reused for something. :p Part of me can’t wait to see what happens in the next issue of the campus paper, but I have a strong feeling that if any students write to complain about the pro-abortion vandalism, they’ll effectively be told to “bite it.”

Yeah, don’t go to this school. Ever. Unless you enjoy a mecca of political correctness that rarely passes up a chance to be utterly ashamed of its Catholic identity, especially knowing the bishop of the Diocese is not going to do JACK!

OK, rant done, must write annotated bibliography and prepare for my in-class presentation Saturday morning. I need to do well because it’s also the day I’ll be asking that professor for a recommendation for the ACE program. Eep!

God bless!!! ^_^

It’s bleeding obvious that this person DIDN’T EVEN READ THE FREAKING DOCUMENT before deciding to rip into the Holy Father. Regardless of whether you agree with the writer or not, that is just sloppy journalism It says something, though, that the newspaper knew they could run this and face little opposition (I say little because a chunk of the JVT (Jewish-Viking Table; crazy peoples I sit with at meals, and one of them happens to be Jewish,) is planning on writing the editor.)

Remember, kids, Catholics are a minority on this campus!  (But we’re still going to treat them like the majority and bend over backwards treating the actual majority like a minority.)

May 3^rd cannot come soon enough….