Category: Politics
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20 Kids Wasn’t Enough
In the last few years, I keep it light around here. Mostly I write about blogging, WordPress, silly stuff about my kids. The heavy stuff is usually something about fatherhood and losing my own dad before I was a teenager. I haven’t written about politics since early college, as far as I can remember. And…
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Control Eluded State Leaders in Ebola Crisis
Had the state used its public health powers more robustly, health care workers who treated Duncan might not have been circulating in public, and much of the ensuing panic could have been stilled. Source: Control Eluded State Leaders in Ebola Crisis | The Texas Tribune I’m glad to hear reports that the first nurse is now…
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Respect for the Office
I’m calling an audible and changing up my schedule for the week. Tomorrow’s post is a follow up that focuses on my thoughts on leadership as demonstrated in what happened in today’s post. Leadership is a privilege. We are all called to some form of leadership: in our homes, workplaces and the civic and church communities. However, positions of leadership are…
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Catholic Politics
This is just a quick response to a story that I heard last week on NPR regarding how political and activist the Catholic Bishops were with the health care bill and the Stupak Amendment. Many Americans have an extremely hard time understanding, or at least accepting, the role that the United States Bishops played in…
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Is the President a Nerd?
Watch this to find out: Personally, based on this, I think he is nerd enough for me.
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President Obama Nominates Vatican Ambassador
From the White House:Dr. Miguel Díaz is a Professor of Theology at St. John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota. He is the co-editor of the book “From the Heart of Our People: Explorations in Catholic Systematic Theology” and author of “On Being Human: U.S. Hispanic and Rahnerian Perspectives”, named “Best Book…