Outside The Asylum

I am not sure if I should be glad Trump is ok, or angry that we have raised a generation of gun owners who do not understand that it is the power of the single shot that allows snipers to be so dangerous.  This is the second attempt where the shooter chose a relatuvely low power weapon with a large magazine over a more accurate higher power hunting rifle that can get the job done from outside the security perimeter.

Question from a DM in Facebook: Kant teaches that the ends never justify the means, that we can't do harm to achieve good. Is this correct under Catholic Thinking? My answer: I dabble in philosophy and theology, so you can take what I say with a grain of salt, but here is my answer. As far as I'm concerned- if a philosophical or theological point hasn't been debated for at least 10 centuries, we haven't thought about it enough yet. I would rephrase it as the ends rarely justify the means- usually the means justify the ends. Additional Question from the DM: Are you Catholic, and could you give me an example? I consider myself a Zen Catholic. I started out as a cradle Catholic, wandered away in my 20s, after learning the value of paradox all the parables in the Bible suddenly made sense so I returned. Have been married for 25 years. The ends justify the means in the protection of the common good- the classic is the assassination of a totalitarian dictator, or ...

 Mainly because I've been struggling with employment and autistic burnout.  Thus the only posts that have been seen here, have been accidental cross posts from my Knights of Columbus Blog. That changes today- we're about to start Pride month, and I boycott Pride usually, but this is just too crazy to work. From Not The Bee- the Libertarians just became the Pride Party. You read that right.  The party that used to get 3-4% of the vote, have decided to go after 1-2% of the population. I look forward to Biden explaining why he's better for homosexuality than a performance drag queen.

From Fr. Don, in the bulletin for St. Clare's Church in Portland, OR.  The Archdiocese is being attacked in the media for the information in this link.   I want to re-emphasize what I wrote about last week: the recent media articles about Catholic schools. I was personally at the meeting with the archbishop that got all this media storm started and I don’t expect any changes here at St. Clare School. In spite of what the media is trying to imply, the bishop is NOT asking us to go to a “classical education” model, nor is he asking us to make changes in our gender policy: we have always treated a person in a girl’s body as a girl and a person in a boy’s body as a boy. That’s not new and I don’t think it’s radical. St. Clare School is an outstanding school that loves and supports every student and we will continue our long-standing tradition of nurturing the spiritual and educational development of the whole child.

 This post was originally written about the Presidential race in the United States, but it could easily be adapted in many of its planks to fighting back against the pornocracy at any level of government. These are the party planks I want to see in a primary from *any* primary race.  You can easily tailor them to the jurisdiction you are running in. - Be pro-life to the point of supporting unwed mothers and heterosexual marriage for parents of children between conception and age 21.   - Eliminate bigotry against the unwanted and disabled in the forms of euthanasia, abortion, and transgender mutilation - Fund marital counseling services to reduce and eliminate divorce.   - Bring us a *workable* plan to start rolling back the Imperialistic financial aid and armed forces from the United States that the pornocracy has been using to push homosexuality, abortion, and birth control on the third world. - God's Children are Not for Sale; repurpose those troops to fr...

Aging hippies claim that the reason the sexual revolution happened was because love got replaced in American culture with righteousness. I disagree.  Love is an essential part of righteousness, and does not exist in the sexual revolution. Let us begin with "what is Love?" For the righteous man, there can be only one answer: love is willing what is BEST for other people. Thus sexual orientation, when not oriented to procreation, can never be love, but rather, abuse. Including heterosexual birth control and divorce, of course. Abuse is not love. This is not a reason to hate, it is a reason to mourn- mourn the loss of reason, the loss of the ideal agape love, that wills what is best for the other. And thus mourn the loss of righteousness itself, in favor of something far less.

 As we were cooking the Knights of Columbus Breakfast at St. Clare's in Portland on June 4th, our pancake flipper Scott Young brought up the Dodgers controversy for First Deadly Sin Month, and I was surprised to hear that many of the men there were unaware of the problem. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a few opinion pieces about this blatant anti-Catholic group being honored by Major League Baseball.  I must admit, I've been a bit cowardly myself about defending the faith on this topic, as I work for a corporation that is very vocal about First Deadly Sin Month- and rather anti-Catholic about it. However, there comes a time when as Catholic Knights, we must draw a line in the sand, and this is sufficiently non-partisan, even if some elements on both sides want to make it partisan, that I think we need to stand together as brothers, to stand up and just say NO. Here is the EWTN interview with the author of one of those opinion pieces published in the Wall Street J...