New Pope by Charley Reese. Charley Reese has some strong medicine for dissenters in the Church. I've often been confused by some people who think they should get to vote on what the Church stands for and how it should run. If that's what you want, go find it, it isn't here. Become a Protestant! You don't agree with the Church, the Pope or the Magesterium anyway. Why stay? Surely the Pontiff cannot be the divinely choosen successor to St. Peter if he is in error. Look, I'm the last guy who is going to tell people they need to "go forth and sin no more". Far from it. The difference is, I believe in what the Church stands for and how and why we do things the way we do. It is the difference between believing something is right and failing to do it vs. believing something else entirely. If you believe and are trying (but failing) to do right, it makes sense to stay. To believe otherwise and not do it because you don't agree with the Magesterium is another matter.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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