Arthur Jones, former editor of the National [Anti]Catholic Reporter, throws a temper tantrum and blogger Amy Welborn takes him out to the woodshed for a good old-fashioned spanking.*
posted by Pro Ecclesia 12:15 PM
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A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."
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2 Comments:
Yeah,
Fortunately the number of crybabies continues dwindle, though not fast enough here in the Richmond diocese. I saw in today's Catholic Virginian, an ad for a seminar called, "'The shape of the Church to come,' a five week seminar on Karl Rahner's 1972 book dealing with issues, blah, blah... facilitator (the infamous) Tomas J. Quinlan."
I'm half tempted to go and see if it's what I suspect it will be: 5 seminars of whining about how much better things were in 1974 and how the Wojtyla-Ratzinger continuum threw everything off track from VII. And the Church is moving backwards and young Catholics just don't get it like those in 1974 got it.
On second thought I probably shouldn't go as I don't want to be tempted to swear at a priest.
So, TQ is still around, huh? Spreading more of his heterodox pap to confuse the faithful?
Well, probably not the faithful. He'll only be preaching to the choir when it comes to the crowd of hippies and homosexuals that are likely to attend that gathering.
I'm a little shocked, given the manner in which he dispensed with TQ, that Bishop DiLorenzo would allow an ad for this "seminar" to be placed in his diocesan newspaper.
Especially in light of the fact that I'm still waiting for the CV to run my letter to the editor complaining about the photo the CV ran of 2 diocesan officials hamming it up with pro-abort Sen. Joe Biden.
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