The First Thing To Say About Politics

In The Gay (catholic) Community, It Would Seem, The Maxim Is: Love The Sin And Love The Sinner, But Hate Anyone Who Calls It A Sin Or Him A Sinner.

Disguise Is Central To God's Way Of Dealing With Us Human Beings. Not Because God Is Playing Games With Us But Because The God Who Is Beyond Our Knowing Makes Himself Known In The Disguise Of What We Can Know. The Christian Word For This Is Revelation, And The Ultimate Revelation Came By Incarnation. ... God Is The Master Of Disguises, In Order That We Might See.

Consumerism Is, Quite Precisely, The Consuming Of Life By The Things Consumed. It Is Living In A Manner That Is Measured By Having Rather Than Being... And Consumerism Is Hardly The Sin Of The Rich. The Poor, Driven By Discontent And Envy, May Be As Consumed By What They Do Not Have As The Rich Are Consumed By What They Do Have. The Question Is Not, Certainly Not Most Importantly, A Question About Economics. It Is First And Foremost A Cultural And Moral Problem Requiring A Cultural And Moral Remedy.

In Legal Parlance, That Is Called 'the Rational Person Test,' ... That's Where Somebody Else Says, 'even Though We Have No Idea What This Person Would Want In This Circumstance In Which They Cannot Themselves Tell Us What They Want, A 'rational' Person - Meaning, Myself - In That Circumstance Would Want To Die.' So You Move Very Quickly From So-called Voluntary Euthanasia To Involuntary Euthanasia. These Legal And Medical Developments Are Not Simply Hypothetical They're In The Courts Right Now.

All My Life I Have Prayed To God That I Should Remain Religiously Orthodox, Culturally Conservative, Politically Liberal And Economically Pragmatic.