One of the problems with the current arguments in the healthcare debate is that they do not deal with a reality that was present before a current Federal Law, a reality to which the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church (and the Pope) say we must not return to. What is that reality? Well, let […]
Archives for February 2011
Memories and children
All children grow up. But, we who are parents spend so many years raising them that sometimes we forget that there was a time before we had children and that there will be a time after our children are grown. We may be parents until the day we die, but we only raise our children […]
Tea Party vs the Left
Father Orthoduck has no particular story and no particular message with the cartoon above. Well, except that he is glad to finally see a political cartoon written and drawn from a moderate viewpoint. Yes, the cartoon above is uncouth and insulting and unbalanced, etc. But, as a moderate, Father Orthoduck must admit that he laughed […]
Feast of the Presentation 2011
Today is the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple. It is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Orthodoxy. The Synaxarion has the following to say about this feast: When the most pure Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary’s forty days of purification had been fulfilled, she took her first-born Son to Jerusalem […]
Freedom for us, dictatorship for others
Father Orthoduck will make this post very brief. The comic above illustrates an attitude that is all too common in USA history. Beginning in the 1950’s, USA political doctrine was that it was safer to support friendly dictators than it was to take a chance on unknown freedom movements. Thus, in the post-World War II […]
