Outside The Asylum

As I was writing the last article on this blog, I needed a link to Humanae Vitae . As I'm an old hacker preferring command lines to this new-fangled GUI stuff, I of course went to Goosh, the command-line interpreter for Google to get it. Oddly enough, Goosh came up with only four links, and the fourth one, This Article from First Things Blog way back in 2008- explaining that scientific, secular fact had caught up with Pope Paul VI's predictions- and that even back then, before Obama, every single one of them had come true in the 40 years since the Church took this not-so-radical stance.

I have given up posting on the subjects of Birth Control and Abortion on the Oregonian's blog. From the response to this article on Catholic women who use birth control should speak out , my opinion won't be missed in the least. There are plenty of others to take up this cross. Having said that, my lenten fast is only from the Oregonian's blog, not from my personal blog. And so I post here to Maura Casey- Amen Sister. Not that I agree with you in the least on your dissent from Church Teaching. But unless dissenters come out of the closet and are loud and vocal in their dissent, there is no opportunity to explain church teaching to them. And if their dissent is accurate and actually has some evidence- well, that's how doctrine develops. Let's *actually have the discussion* that Blessed Pope John Paul The Great wanted Evangelium Vitae to begin- on the dignity and "special genius" of women, and how, in Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae , contraceptio...

Not often I repeat the extreme right wing views of Michael Voris . In many ways I see him as much as a dissenter as those he decries as heretics on the left. But today's Vortex did have some interesting points. It helps that he referenced a Pope- all of his best stuff does- Pope Paul VI in his groundbreaking Humanae Vitae , the encyclical the first world loves to ignore, or hate. In it Pope Paul VI made some interesting predictions of what would happen to any society that accepted and made contraception legal for the purposes of birth control: An overall lowering of moral standards A rise in infidelity and illegitimacy The reduction of women to objects for men's pleasure Government coercion in reproductive matters Remember, this was written in 1968. In the United States, we have now seen all four of these predictions come to pass. Moral standards are at an all time low, and have been since the 1969 "Summer of Love" which should really have been named "The S...

For those claiming the Great Recession is over, we offer This incredibly scary link . Oh well, I guess my house will be back to worth what it was about the time my child goes to college.

Despite this being a third hand story with NO way to trace if it's true or not, supposedly a friend of Sarah Fluke had PCOS- Ovarian Cysts- and needed *birth control* pills to save her fertility. Never mind that in previous generations when we put human life as a higher value than material goods, most 32 year old women would have been done having children anyway. But that's a bit beside my point. My point is that I decided to look up treatments for PCOS. I was unable to find one that contained birth control pills, but this group suggests PCOS may be a symptom of untreated Type 1 Diabetes and might be better treated with diet and exercise.

She was also an Illegal Immigrant . Reason Magazine shows how Ayn, fearing certain death for her views in Soviet Russia under Lenin, overstayed a tourist visa while staying with relatives in Chicago, and even had a "marriage of convience" with her actor husband, just as her extension on her visa was about to run out (to her credit, she stuck with him for 50 years until his death in 1979). She was also pro-choice, which makes her a very suspect philosopher for any Republican trying to be conservative.

Or not so secret. Evangelium Vitae has been on the Internet for 20 years- one of the first group of Vatican Encyclicals put out on the then-new world wide web. But it seems most American Catholics have never read it, making the Bishops current battle against the Obama Administration over mandated family planning seem out of touch. For those wondering why all the hoopla about Family Planning now, I quote EV Section 13: 13. In order to facilitate the spread of abortion, enormous sums of money have been invested and continue to be invested in the production of pharmaceutical products which make it possible to kill the fetus in the mother's womb without recourse to medical assistance. On this point, scientific research itself seems to be almost exclusively preoccupied with developing products which are ever more simple and effective in suppressing life and which at the same time are capable of removing abortion from any kind of control or social responsibility. It is frequently ...

Been a couple of months. I wonder how the federal government is coming on those concentration, uh, FEMA camps.....Still time for another round of required federal reports in several industries that might suggest that you too are a terrorist: 1. Airport Service Providers -- Includes on-craft providers: baggage, cleaners, cargo, catering, mechanics, ground crew, food service, cleaners, security, taxi, limos, and shuttles. 2. Beauty/Drug Suppliers -- People who have burn marks, missing limbs, travel a long distance, nervous, who are picked up, make illogical requests (even of consumer-grade products). 3. Bulk Fuel Distributors -- New customers not from the area, those using cash for large transactions, nervous, large purchases, having a rental vehicle. 4. Construction Sites -- People with environmental slogans and/or anti-government slogans, banners or signs that threaten or imply violence. 5. Dive/Boat Shops -- New customers reluctant to provide complete personal information,...

I was just watching this weekend's rerun of Fulton Sheen's Life is Worth Living on EWTN- and he said something that struck me a being inspired- the dear Archbishop of New York often was, which is what got him a TV show that ran for 40 years. He said that technology in America is beginning, in the 1960s, to affect our love lives. Love, you see, isn't mechanical, it's emotional. Sex is mechanical. And when you separate sex from procreation- you separate sex from love. Sex is replaceable. But Love is not replaceable. Love is mutual needing- Love is mutual listening. Sex can be a part of it sure- but Love is much more than just sex. It's romance. Too many people take love for granted- love takes work, it is fragile, it needs constant care. To a woman love is a drama, to a man it's an intermission- but to survive it must become a drama. It requires commitment and work. And that's why I say that marriage must be based not on love, but on commitment. ...