Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done.He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot: Wound and welt and gaping gash, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve. -The 1st Sorrowful Mystery

A Bishop Defends Private Health Care

Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City, Iowa has published a column on the diocesan Website which explicitly defends the need for private health care. His column, by the way, reads very well -- it was obviously written by someone with a real command of the subject matter.

Bishop Nickless first distinguishes between a "natural right" and a "political right," the former derives directly from God's "bounty," like the air we breathe. Political rights, he says, come from "human efforts, creativity, and compassion." -Read More

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