Jesuit priest and peace activist Father Bill “Bix” Bichsel, 83, is in his second week of a hunger strike to protest solitary confinement at Washington’s SeaTac Federal Detention Center, where he’d been held for an earlier action against a proposed nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee. Wasn’t that a time? When the Catholic Church produced such men [...]
Archive for January 2012
Viva Padre Bix!
January 29, 2012Wine before breakfast?
January 23, 2012Wine Before Breakfast? … what else would you expect from a glutton and a drunkard? Hip incarnational theologian Brian Walsh has this sign in his room. Now you need to know something about the New Testament and Jesus in bad company, his penchant for hanging out with those on the margins, the uncool and decidedly [...]
Rick Santorum Right to Death
January 20, 2012On occasion, scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead,” bragged U.S. Republican nomination candidate Rick Santorum. “I think that’s a wonderful thing, candidly.” Yes, indeed Mr Right to Life, Rick Santorum candidate for Republican nomination for US President. Can you get your mind around such hypocrisy? This type should embarrass these [...]
Bye to the Magi
January 18, 2012So we bid goodbye to the 3 Kings. The feast of the epiphany (Jan 6) should be celebrated in a better way, maybe simple gift giving. Of course the Bible never says thee were three but the evangelists were not interested in history in many cases. Matthew simply is telling us about the significance of [...]
Finkelstein and Chagall all in one day! What a gift!
January 13, 2012Imagine two beautiful Hasids in Toronto on the same day.Difficult to believe but true nevertheless. Norman Finkelstein the unparalleled documentarian of Israeli apartheid gave a 90 minute speech at the University of Toronto on January 11 and just down the street at the Art Gallery of Ontario there he was the inimitable Marc Chagall, he [...]
We Three Kings
January 9, 2012The Magi have come and gone.We said goodbye yesterday at mass.The opening hymn was We Three Kings. The epiphany, first Sunday near January 6. Now it is official the 12 Days of Christmas have ended. We can take or Christmas tree down. The liturgical cycle by which we calibrate our lives moves into ordinary time. [...]
The latest evidence: Imposed Celibacy does not work
January 4, 2012Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala has resigned after disclosing to superiors that he was the father of two children. The Vatican announced the bishop’s resignation Jan. 4 in a one-line statement that cited church law on resignation for illness or other serious reasons. So writes the NCR on the latest proof that enforced celibacy [...]
