Charity

“Charity is not the willingness to take from somebody in order to give to somebody else.”

Mr Gore

Al "Boy Scout" Gore:
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

Opportunity knocks

As they look across their northern border, Pennsylvanians can be forgiven for thinking of New Yorkers the way Abba Eban once described the Palestinians: They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

United Nations

The United Nations, for example, survives as a glorious idea, despite how corrupt, counterproductive and even dangerous its actions are.

Italy

That is why the closed shop, a fading memory of the bad old days for people in Britain, is the way Italy still functions at every level. It's why there are no brown or black faces behind the counters in the post office or among the ranks of taxi drivers, why university heads have no embarrassment about giving tenured positions to their closest relatives, why in politics the same old party hacks are recycled year after year – and why so many young Italians of energy and talent flee abroad as soon as they can.

New limousine liberals

The adopted son of the lead guitarist of Pink Floyd, with a personal fortune estimated at $160 million, he was the very image of the caviar anarchist.

Aquinas on emotions

St. Thomas warns that the intellect must always confirm the intuitive insights of the emotions, he is equally concerned about the consequences of ignoring the input of the emotions.

National Public Radio

NPR consists of “pseudo-liberals”.

Mr. Obama

He's like a walking headache.

Two plus two

There is a world where two plus two still does equal four. It is the world of our foreign creditors.

Appeasement

An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last.

Separation of school...

One may prattle about church and state, but school and state require a “wall of separation”

Abp Chaput

“If our political leaders lack conviction about their faith, it's because the members of the Church lack conviction about their faith".

Debt ceiling and Mr. Obama

Barack Obama said in 2006 that a bill to raise the debt limit was “a sign of leadership failure.”

Debt ceiling

U.S. Congressional leaders are refusing to lift the country's debt ceiling, preventing the Treasury from raising money it has already spent.

Economic growth

And more jobs will be created once the economy again begins to grow.

-Is the growth of the economy a certainty?

Abp Nichols

This champion of imitation Catholicism

Materialism

The venerable Victorian materialist wanted the world to grow more and more scientific, but only on the strict condition that the science should grow more and more materialistic.

Bluffing

In the midst of testy debt-limit negotiations, Obama told House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, "Don't call my bluff."

Center of the universe

That the location of the Earth does not coincide with the center of mass of the universe is a matter of taste, not of "science".

Niceness

The churches have capitulated and preach niceness rather than holiness.

Elitism

If the elites had not polluted the moral watershed upstream,

Feminism

Feminism: that always was a revolt of some women against other women.

Right or wrong

"my president, wrong or wrong!"

Laws

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Shorts at Mass

"If these same folks who wear shorts to Mass were invited to the White House for dinner, would they wear shorts?"

Government

"Democrats warned that if the debt ceiling isn't raised, the government would cease to function. How would you be able to tell?"

Socialism

The terminal ailment of socialists: “They always run out of other people’s money.”

Cardinal Arinze

This is Divine law, it’s not a tennis club regulation.

The necessity of heresy

Oportet ut scandala eveniant.

Gay marriage

The biological impossibility some call “gay marriage”.

GKC on race

“I shall,” he wrote in 1925, “begin to take [racial distinctions] seriously … when I find a man classifying himself as inferior … I never heard a man say: Anthropology shows that I belong to an inferior race.”

Immigration

Legislators from the Mexican border state of Sonora sent a delegation north to Arizona. Their mission? To complain to Arizona officials that the Legal Arizona Workers Act was sending too many Mexican nationals home too quickly, and that Sonora could not handle the burden on its public services and infrastructure.

Our bishops

Cardinal Heenan noted the relativist scepticism that generally characterizes the Churchs teachers: “The magisterium has survived only in the Pope. It is no longer exercised by the bishops and it is rather difficult to get the hierarchy to condemn a false doctrine. Outside Rome the magisterium today is so unsure of itself that it no longer even attempts to lead.”

Social justice

The Church is not a social or philanthropic organisation

Newman and Social Justice

…. this well-ordered and divinely-governed world, with all its blessings of sense and knowledge, may lead us to neglect those interests which will endure when itself has passed away.… And hence it is that many pursuits in themselves honest and right, are nevertheless to be engaged in with caution, lest they seduce us; and those perhaps with especial caution, which tend to the well-being of men in this life. The sciences, for instance, of good government, of acquiring wealth, of preventing and relieving want, and the like, are for this reason especially dangerous; for fixing, as they do, our exertions on this world as an end, they go far to persuade us that they have no other end

Entitlements

Entitlement programs that were not adequately funded and only promise to grow even larger.

J C Murray

Murray defended the distinction between private and public morality, and that the Church should not attempt to impose Catholic morality in the public sphere. He failed to see the results of sexual licentiousness. He believed too strongly in the democratic ideal. He did not realize the necessity of restraint.

J.C.Murray

Its most striking characteristic is its profound materialism . . . It has given citizens everything to live for and nothing to die for.

SJ

The Society of Judas.

Canadian bishops & D and P

This world has never seen such a disastrous generation of bishops like this one.

Science

Scientists are absolutely sure of something until they change their mind upon receiving new information.

GKC on schools

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Secularism

The history of modernity is, among other things, the history of substitutes for God. Art, culture, nation, Geist, humanity, society: all these, along with a clutch of other hopeful aspirants, have been tried from time to time. The most successful candidate currently on offer is sport, which, short of providing funeral rites for its spectators, fulfils almost every religious function in the book.