Mother Angelica

Mother often reminded us, “Unless we are willing to do the ridiculous, then God cannot do the miraculous.”

Green energy

In May, President Obama came to a Fremont, Calif., solar plant where he announced, "The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra." This month, Solyndra announced it was canceling its expansion plans. The announcement came after voters rewarded the green lobby by defeating Proposition 23 -- which would have postponed California's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law AB32 -- because voters bought the green-jobs promise.

Congress [again]

Senator John Danforth has said, "I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. We know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."

Congress

Serving in Congress should be seen as just that: service, which is distinct from self-service.

Donkeys

In Mexico, we say "No hay que ponerse con el burro a las patadas" ("don't play kick-me with donkeys",

Ecumenicism

Yes, Prime Minister, “interfaith interface” (in which one character is an Anglican cleric who thinks that “the Bible is some sort of Christian version of the Koran”)

Vocations

I've heard crackpot theories about early Church life -- exactly the sort Protestant demagogues used to confuse the peasantry centuries ago. And yet, at the height of the "reforms," these were coming down like snow through the Catholic hierarchy itself, in the bureaucratic language of episcopally appointed commissions, shaking and shivering the faith of the laity and discouraging all Catholic vocations.