David Ancell / Friday, November 07, 2003 / Comments(0)
This article is just plain scary. An overseas medical transcriptionist threatened to post patient filed on the Internet unless she was paid more money. Had she done this in the United States, there is a potential for the woman to face 10 years in federal prison under our new HIPAA laws. However, since this hospital outsourced the transcription overseas to save money, this is not likely going to happen.
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David Ancell / Thursday, November 06, 2003 / Comments(0)
I just want to let the guys who spam the comments know something. I don’t know how other people operate their databases. However, I happen to have mySQL GUI software that enables me to easily delete your scribble and then ban your IP so that you can’t come back from that same provider. Therefore, spamming is futile. I saw the garbage that you put on my site, and it didn’t take long to get rid of it.
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David Ancell / Thursday, November 06, 2003 / Comments(0)
Mark Shea offers his perspective on “The Real Jesus” who happens to resemble the mood of the time on Catholic Exchange.
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David Ancell / Thursday, November 06, 2003 / Comments(0)
Here is an example of the judicial mess we will have when we break God’s law.
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David Ancell / Monday, November 03, 2003 / Comments(0)
Given that the Episcopalians have ordained their first openly gay bishop, perhaps this quote that came in my e-mail is worthwhile:
“The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church’s founder, Henry VIII and his wife Catherine of Aragon,
his wife Anne Boleyn,
his wife Jane Seymour,
his wife Anne of Cleves,
his wife Katherine Howard,
and his wife Catherine Parr
are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional Christian marriage.”
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David Ancell / Sunday, November 02, 2003 / Comments(0)
The Lord gave me a reflection on one practical problem with materialism that I wanted to share. Most of us know that it is wrong to use another person for our own pleasure. Perhaps this problem arises from materialism.
Materialism teaches us to desire objects. Take a look at our modern advertising. It tells us that acquiring this product will really make our life so much better. The message doesn’t leave us. We begin to desire objects instead of people. In fact, the saddest part of this is that it turns our attention away from the divine person who can really fulfill all our needs.
After being brainwashed into desiring objects, we begin to see and use other people as objects. Rather than treating them with their God-given dignity, we want to control them. Lust is a classic example as it desires sex as an object rather than desiring a whole person. Therefore, let us today love people and use things rather than the other way around.
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David Ancell / Saturday, November 01, 2003 / Comments(0)
Here is Pope John Paul II’s address from March 2002 about the Charismatic Renewal.
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David Ancell / Saturday, November 01, 2003 / Comments(0)
Gonzaga University, a Jesuit “Catholic” university in Spokane, Washington, is having a “Catholicism for a New Millenium” speaker series. It do appear that the series will be the same tired old garbage that has been floating around ever since the 1960s. Take a look at this dude.
He starts with statistics, as though statistics determine the will of God. He accuses the Church of Bible abuse, probably because she uses the Bible to teach those teachings contrary to his own. He bemoans that sad abuse of homosexuals because the Church teaches that their activity is immoral and the abuse of women because they can’t be ordained.
This statement of his is very telling:
“As a result of the power we end up having a huge chasm between the power of the Church and the power of the laity,” he said. “It is sinful. It is ungodly. And it must be challenged.”
Ahem, you see, being a Catholic and Christian is not about serving the Lord and living a holy life. It’s about power. We need to get more power in the Church. Nevermind that stuff about going out in the world and sanctifying those things in the temporal order. Let’s waste time in a power struggle with clergy to assure that we don’t fulfill anything that God has called us to.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t appear that the university’s students have been fooled in large numbers. The priest spoke to 160 people made up of Spokane residents, faculty, and students. Gonzaga has about 5,400 students. Besides, a couple of students wrote this and this. It gives me hope to know that there are young people who can think beyond the “justice” standards of an elementary school playground.
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