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  • The blog header depicts an important and yet mis-understood New Testament scene, Jesus flogging the money-changers out of the temple. I selected it because the faith that gives us consolation can also make us very uncomfortable. Both Divine Mercy and Divine Justice meet in Jesus. Priests are ministers of reconciliation, but never at the cost of truth. In or out of season, we must be courageous in preaching and living out the Gospel of Life. The title of my blog is a play on words, not Flogger Priest but Blogger Priest.

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Faith & Values in the News

Vatican open to a Lutheran Ordinariate

A fairly quiet but interesting development…

Letter on Marriage from the Bishop of Newark

Powerful letter!

Bishop orders priests to read anti-Obama letter at Sunday sermons

Wow!  In a lot of places, priests would face censure from their bishops for saying what this bishop is demanding his priests in holy obedience to say from the pulpit.

Florida early vote totals revised, raising questions

I have serious reservations about early voting and reporting the results before the actual election day.  It seems to me that extended time increases the possibility of fraud and abuse.  If a computer glitch can result in a thousand less or more votes in Florida, get rid of the darn computers.  A North Carolina voter reported that every time she tried to select Romney on the electronic voter machine, it came up Obama.  She complained and initially supervisors told her nothing was wrong.  How many were robbed of their vote?  But my suspicion is that there is more hanky-panky in Florida, either because of partianship or simple incompetence.  The word is out that President Obama already has a string of lawyers prepared to challenge vote tallies in swing states should matters not go his way.  As with the Bush election, we are seeing the intrusion of the courts into the election process.

More Electronic Voting Machines Changing Romney Votes to Obama

Is the FIX on?

Poster Campaign

The PC police are now targeting Halloween costumes.  Television stations hesitate to show movies like Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby or The Jolson Story because of the blackface routines.  Of course, the same people do not seem to see anything wrong with costumes or crude films with “sexy” nuns and vulgar depictions of priests.  You can dress up as a cowboy, but all hell breaks loose if you have kids made up as indians, gulp, I mean native Americans.  Don’t dare depict Mohammad if you want to keep your head but feel free to blaspheme Christ and to degrade the Virgin Mary.  Hypocrites!