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I'm not always wearing my full habit...
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
Jeff Wheeler, in The Blight of Muirwood
The same is true of any person who has a new idea. It is frightening to suggest something new, and both the delicate new idea and the person who brought it up can be crushed by the response.
So, as it says in The Gospel According to Bill and Ted: be excellent to each other.
The Virginia Legislature has passed this law that allows — or mandates — that a woman who wants to have an abortion… they’re forcing women to get a vaginal probe. And it’s not for any medical reason — it’s just really to shame you if you wanna have an abortion. And (these) are the same people who say that ‘Obamacare is invasive.’ There’s nothing in ‘Obamacare’ that mandates the state put in an electronic dildo in your vagina — and that’s what’s going on under Republican auspices.
BILL MAHER, remarking on Virginia’s personhood bullshit, on Real Time (via inothernews)
Preach it!
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If I’m lucky, the family will accept the news that, in a time when we can separate conjoined twins and reattach severed limbs, people still wear out and die of old age. If I’m lucky, the family will recognize that their loved one’s life is nearing its end.
Craig Bowron, in Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor’s eyes
When my grandmother was dying of kidney failure last November, her three children struggled with the question of when to ask for pain medication. One refused to acknowledge the signs of pain, being more concerned with Nana’s blood pressure than with keeping her comfortable. This sibling held the medical power of attorney. One tried to stay out of the medical decisions; this sibling held the financial power of attorney. My mom didn’t know what to think or say or do, wrestling with her hope that her mother would wake and acknowledge that she was there against her wish that her mother would not have the painful and miserable death that her father had three years ago. They would stare at each other when the nurse at the hospital asked to confirm the dose of pain medication, like three deer simultaneously caught in the headlights, unable to speak. Even though I was two generations away, I would speak up: “We want her as comfortable as she can be.”
Hospitals — even the Mayo Clinic hospital in Florida (State motto: God’s Waiting Room) — are not well equipped to handle patients at the end of life. We were so thankful for the nurses and social workers from the hospice, who would check up on the doctor’s orders and make sure that as much as could be done for Nana was being done for her. They would spend time in the room just chatting with us, hearing and laughing with us at family stories, and these were the times when Nana was most peaceful.
The doctor also says this:
When families talk about letting their loved ones die “naturally,” they often mean “in their sleep” — not from a treatable illness such as a stroke, cancer or an infection. Choosing to let a loved one pass away by not treating an illness feels too complicit; conversely, choosing treatment that will push a patient into further suffering somehow feels like taking care of him. While it’s easy to empathize with these family members’ wishes, what they don’t appreciate is that very few elderly patients are lucky enough to die in their sleep. Almost everyone dies of something.
The one blessing of kidney failure was that Nana fell into a sleep, which became a deeper and deeper state of unconsciousness until she passed. It took several days, but we were all glad that her dying was peaceful.
The dying stand on holy ground, and sometimes we are privileged to witness this. It is hard, but it is a blessing.
Or, to paraphrase Martin Luther, “God doesn’t save the penny-ante sinners. If we’re stuck being sinners, sin boldly!”
Our simmering anger needs but a nudge to flame up and scald everyone around us. Yet when our thoughts are pure, we become a light by which others learn to read.
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.
St. John Chrysostom
Well then.
(via invisibleforeigner)
Wrong. We can’t disagree with or criticize bishops in any way.
Wait…. he was a bishop?!
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Yeah, I’m not prepared to do any formal statistical analysis, but I bet there are more saints that criticized bishops than who were bishops. Just sayin’.
(via galesofnovember)
If God’s kingdom is as topsy-turvy-upside-down-y as Jesus says in the gospels, then a whole lot of us — including bishops, priests, deacons, and religious — are in deep trouble.
(via galesofnovember)
Truly, it is a war on our religious liberties and that violation of conscience that he would mandate that is un-American because it violates our First Amendment in our Constitution.
-Sarah Palin (via jasencomstock)
No, Undercover Nun couldn’t make any sense of it either.
To ask middle-class Americans to see American culture as Jesus would see it is to ask them to vote against their own privileged position in society…
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When teachers are afraid to stand up for their students, as were Justin’s, and when leaders stand by and allow masses to trample over the vulnerable, what is there left to teach, and who is left to lead?
America, you have a problem. You need to grow up. Life is too short and the world too complicated. You have too much to give to your country and others to be dragged down over gay and straight. So please look up.
When you do, you will see a country of multiple faiths that is learning to live with faith, difference, and dignity. Civility and decency are not virtuous aspirations; they are necessities. Like it or not, to borrow a lesson from one of your favourite books, we are our brother’s keeper.
I know this is none of my business. Yet I couldn’t stay silent any longer. It’s like watching two trains headed towards each other in slow motion.
From time to time it’s necessary that friends speak from the heart. And frankly, you need it now, because from your big neighbor to the north, not only literally, but also figuratively, you’re looking kind of small.
Dear America: You Have a Gay Problem (via kileyrae)
Undercover Nun applauds Mr. Scheinert for his letter.
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I shudder to think what would have happened if the civil rights gains, heroically established by courageous lawmakers in the 1960s, were instead conveniently left up to popular votes in our 50 states.
…Equal protection under the law – for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation – should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. I hope our leaders in Trenton will affirm and defend it.
Newark, NJ mayor CORY BOOKER, calling out governor Chris Christie for proposing that marriage equality in the Garden State be decided by referendum instead of by legislation, on Jan. 24.
Worth re-posting.
(Source: inothernews, via hairtrending)
