Hillary Clinton trashes whiners - Kevin Robillard - POLITICO.com

 

Hillary Clinton trashes whiners

Wow! Talk about full circles.  The woman, who confessed she didn’t bake cookies for the school bake sale, calls women whiners who express difficulties trying to balance home and career.  Of course, this is with the backdrop of the Obama campaign putting Mitt Romney down for looking at the binder of resumes of women who he could bring into his administration.

Hillary, in a very big example, demonstrates the problem women have in the workplace with other women. They can bring a lot of stress with their judgmental attitudes of how other women should conduct themselves.  Women judge other women very harshly, instead of helping them to figure out how to balance their acts. When a women with family and work is perceived to have endless choices, people think they should choose “all the above” and deal with it, which is the problem.

Hillary Clinton trashes whiners - Kevin Robillard - POLITICO.com

On Motherhood, Prayers and Doors

 

For the past week and a half, I find myself trying to be in 4 continents, if not physically, cyber wise.  Why would I try such a thing, you may ask? Because I am a mother of four grown children, now actively working on their futures including a daughter who is planning her wedding in So. Africa while living in England with needs from India, a son working on a two-for-one graduate degree not living at home and two daughters (one needed next semester’s tuition paid via a phone call with the credit card number) back at home going to school and minding the dogs.  (of course, the puppy has developed an unexplained twitch as we were going out the door).  Oh, I forgot, I am in Bangalore, India with a house full of plumbing people at our flat.  We came to get my mother in law’s house back up to standard (more plumbing and roofing).  She is doing much better after a severe scare of COPD, living in a home run by the Holy Spirit Sisters.  She has the gift of new eyesight after getting cataract surgery in both eyes last week after we arrived.

So when something happens to one of the kids where the circumstance does not look good, I find I can only turn to the one direction that makes sense.  I asked Our Lady of Good Help and Saint Anthony to take care of my child with the tenderness they took care with the baby Jesus.  I was frank and said I needed the miracle.  Meanwhile, I walked into the kitchen and found I had a green door instead of the green cupboard (which was also a surprise) as the painter did not understand his boss’s direction.  Thank God for cell phones I triangulated the situation between my husband, myself and the Tamil speaking plumber. Then,  I went back to my computer and found that my prayer was answered beyond expectation quickly, and my child not only was given credit, but full credit for the class assignment.  As I walked back into the kitchen, I decided the green door wasn’t so bad after all, as it would be a reminder of my little miracle today and the gift of answered prayer from Our Lady and St. Anthony and my joy of being known as Mom, even in this situation of forced detachment.

A young abortion doctor's dilemma - thestar.com

 

A young abortion doctor's dilemma - thestar.com

This was a potent look at relativism in the lives of abortion providers.  It is a lot of stories in one story.    I would say that most universities these days are for providing a sterile environment to inoculate, nurture and grow cultures of relativism and thereby promoting the eroding of well-formed consciences.  No contamination of natural and moral laws can be allowed especially when it comes to “choice”.  The funny thing is, as with any lab situation dealing with cultures, it is so easy to “contaminate”, and that is good news for the prolife community.

Recognizing the Dignity of Women through Action

Santa Clara University has a new president, Fr.Engh, SJ who took a bold step and canceled future performances of the Vagina Monologues. I intend to write him a personal thank you note. Having paid for a child's tuition at the University, it was always with a prayer that that institution would again identify with its Catholic founding.
Now I hope that they will start using the word "Catholic" instead of "Jesuit" during commencements and other important events. We need our Jesuit institutions first and foremost being all that is Catholic. It is sad that two prominent graduates of Santa Clara University, namely, Leon Panetta (1960) and Janet Napolitano (1979), are identified as pro-choice and prominent in an administration that is hostile to Catholicism.