First up, a correction. I wrote in talking about women in the Catholic church that only women were at the foot of the Cross when Jesus died. Most were indeed women. But John, the Disciple Jesus loved, was also there. John is different than the other apostles in the Gospels – because he is most clearly Jesus’ closest friend. I write about this intense friendship in Love Undetectable, and am mad at myself for such a stupid error. On the cross, indeed,
when Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
Peter was his disciple; but John was family. The other glib statement I made about Mary Magdalen being a prostitute is highly contentious. I’m going to follow up with another post on that soon.
But enough of all “the God stuff”, as some Dish atheists call it. Today we discovered just how radical the House GOP is: threatening to blow up the entire faith and credit of the country in order, among other things, to build the Keystone Pipeline and effectively nullify the last election. Between the risible Cruz and this gob-smacking ransom note to the country, is our system of government grinding to a halt? One reader said it reminded him of 1860.
Three more faves: the collapse of the neoconservative case for entering the Syrian civil war; the promise of Rand Paul; and a Catholic smackdown with Stephen Colbert.
The most popular post was The GOP’s Declaration Of Total War On Our System of Government, followed by Saint Stephen The Ironist.
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(Photo: Sacro Monte di Varallo; Unknown Master, Last Supper (with Jesus and the disciple he loved); wood statues, ca. 1500-05.)
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