David Ancell / Tuesday, May 09, 2006 / Comments(0)
I’ve been a subscriber to the Cardinal Arinze Podcast for some time, but I hadn’t listened to it until I listened to one show on Vatican II yesterday. It was great. There was a sort of intermission featuring a song named Mirror Image by Megan Pettengill. I had not heard her music before, so I did a search to find out where I could hear more. Well, I’m still listening repeatedly to Mirror Image, but it is great! She has a great singing voice.
The link to the Cardinal Arinze podcast is on my website, and I will likely be adding Megan Pettengill’s blog soon. Meanwhile, you can check out the music on the artist page in this post. I hope I’ll get a chance to hear more from Cardinal Arinze. He has been a hero of mine ever since the Georgetown University speech.
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David Ancell / Tuesday, May 09, 2006 / Comments(0)
I almost wonder if any of these toxic boss stories have been made up. Then again, I can believe any crazy story in this world. You can go on the site and vote for the most toxic one. I voted for the guy whose vacation was cancelled at the last minute. That guy may actually be losing money by working for someone like that. What is the deal with people that they walk all over each other like this?
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David Ancell / Monday, May 08, 2006 / Comments(0)
I just read this perspective on the effects that lifting the statute of limitations on lawsuits for people abused by priests (let’s face it, the target is the Church) will have on parishoners and the community as a whole. One thing that seems to have been quickly forgotten is that the Church remains where others have left. Should they be taken away for the benefit of greedy lawyers and supposed victims? I say “supposed” because there are bound to be false accusations. My favorite line is, regarding having Churches in a city close, “Catholics will be left to worship almost exclusively in the beige, bongo-filled barns that increasingly dot the suburban landscape.”
Seriously, though, the settlements will likely result in the loss of these treasures to all parishoners, not just to those who are guilty. The vast majority of priests and parishoners aren’t guilty. Why should they be punished? Why should the poor who are served by the Church be punished? Then again, I suspect the people making money off the lawsuits just don’t care.
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