Thursday, April 12, 2012

Enough said?

The Church can no more identify her cause with scientific error than with political wrong. Her interests may be impaired by some measure of political justice, or by the admission of some fact or document. But in neither case can she guard her interests at the cost of denying the truth.

Lord Acton: Conflicts with Rome (19th century)

Mommy Wars? Bring it on!

A Democratic woman had the audicity to judge Mrs. Romney and proclaim to the world that she hasn't worked a day in her life. Uh, it doesn't matter how much or how little money you have, as a mother, you work everyday providing for the well-being of your children. Money doesn't make you less of a mother. How dare this particular woman slam Mrs. Romney in this way? Is that the Democrats attitude toward women? Women who vote?

When the economy is going down the drain, jobs are few and far between, and gas prices are sky rocketing, should the slant of the campaign rhetoric on the Democratic side really be the disrespect of women who chose to raise their own children and stay at home to do so?

And, you have to wonder about a president who doesn't defend all the women in America when a faction of them are maligned. Not a word from him that I've heard about. But, then, this is the president who had nothing to say when a bounty was illegally offered for a citizen of the United States, dead or alive. I guess the women of the USA should be glad it was only a verbal assault against them. We, the mothers who chose to stay home, need to remember only one thing - Jesus had a stay-at-home mother.

What is a mother: Who shall answer this?
A mother is a font and spring of life,
A mother is a forest in whose heart
Lies hid a secret ancient as the hills,
For men to claim and take its wealth away;
And like the forest shall her wealth renew
And give, and give again, that men may live.

Cardinal Spellman: Mary, Mother of Mankind (20th century)