USNCCB

These were heady days of American episcopal conciliarism, leading to the frequent observation that our bishops felt any problem in Church or the world could be solved by the establishment of a committee, the issuance of a statement, and the decision to have a national second collection.

Mrs. Thatcher

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually, run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher

John Courtney Murray, SJ

What is far less known, and certainly not trumpeted by Murray's Jesuit brethren today, is that Murray, a devout Cold Warrior, had twice voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower, despised Adlai Stevenson, thought Kennedy a lightweight, and likely pulled the voting-machine lever for Nixon in November 1960.

GKC on impartiality

What people mean by being impartial; by being undenominational or undogmatic; by being non-political or non-party, or non-controversial. Generally it means that some people suppose the whole world to be of their denomination, and therefore anything that agrees with them is universal and anything that disagrees with them is insane... In other words it simply means that they are very good, sincere, and serious people, only provincial or local or limited in the very last degree...

E.R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

~Edward R. Murrow

Washington governor on abortion

"Gregoire said of Cooper. The governor spoke of "those, candidly, not yet born who will benefit from your leadership."

One asks oneself how those not to be born can benefit...

Orgasm at Harvard

I received a call the other day from a woman distraught that her son was accepted at Harvard. How could this be you ask?

After he was accepted, she took a closer look at the school and came across a story in the school paper, the Harvard Crimson, about the "fifth annual Female Orgasm Seminar."