[ninenot]

Read the WHOLE thing. Dolan's put some OTHER Wisconsin legislators on notice with this column, and rather neatly, invoking M. L. King in the process.

The rumble continues...

[american colleen]

Dolan is way cool. Here's what the spokesman for Bishop O'Malley from Boston said when asked for the bishop's stance on Bishop Burke's recent actions:

The Rev. Christopher Coyne, the Boston Archdiocese spokesman, has no expectation that O'Malley ever would ever direct his priests to refuse communion to pro-abortion rights officials, he said. Unless a person is clearly deranged or saying things against the church at that moment, the archdiocese's policy is that no priest or lay communion minister should ever refuse communion, he said.

"A priest or a Eucharistic minister is not a policeman or policewoman," Coyne said. "The proper place for a conversation (about church doctrine) is not in the communion line, but before or after."

[TotusTuus]

Concerning MLK, a thought occurred to me. I had always been somewhat ambivalent about the holiday controversy. Recalling all the arguments about whether or not he should be honored with a national and/or state holiday (this blew up in AZ over a decade ago), all the positives and negatives - and there were definite negatives (adultery) - how do you categorize the man?

The daily readings in the Church now come from the kingdom books and involve King David. A man after God's heart. A man who also committed an adulterous rape then murder.

"I would sin like David, if only I could repent like David"