Comments for New Hearings, New Possibilities at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2280 Happy Birthday, Prof. Arkes! Thank you for having served the country so well. You have written excellent books, especially First Things, which have challenged and instructed the American mind in a unique way. Not content with the lot of a sequestered scholar, you went into the agora to argue with your fellow citizens, and the happy result is that you are largely responsible for saving a great many lives and relieving a great many mothers and fathers of profound, lasting pain. - J. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:23:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2272 we all know that the Pope will receive another head of state. this isn't a newspaper. ND INVITED & HONORED w/quite a lot of hoopla & no fidelity to the Faith the American Icon. Pope Ben doesnt need Rebuking-unlike ND. No one knows what our Holy Father will say or how the Holy Spirit will move this meeting. ND needed a public spanking by Catholics who do not compromise their hearts over pop-culture . Michael Jackson would have been a "better" pop-culture, sick choice. At least he could dance! - debby Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:51:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2267 The very fact that a Benedict-Obama meeting has been scheduled and will take place is newsworthy. Benedict honors both the institution of the Presidency and Obama personally with a meeting. He could have declined a meeting, which would have generated extraordinary publicity and headlines ("Pope declines Obama meeting because of abortion issue"). Instead, our Holy Father has chosen to meet him. Given the multi-week build-up to the ND commencement, the silence here is indeed conspicuous. - Bradley Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2268 Arkes' rhetorical pitch for his gambit fairly invites Matt's skepticism about the lapdog media. There is nothing closer to an American princeling --- certainly not in the legal profession- than a federal appellate judge. She is so insulated as to never be compelled to truly reflect on her beliefs. (Her colleague, John Walker, is the exception.) Epiphanies are rare. Yet skillfully using Arkes' gambit at confirmation might induce a 'wise Latina' to seriously reflect. Perhaps for the 1st time. - Bill K Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:59:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2266 We've been "conspicuously silent" about a meeting between the pope and the president? My friend, it hasn't happened yet. - Brad Miner Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:24:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2265 The Senate hearings will probably be ho-hum, as they usually are. New possibilities? For GOP politics, perhaps. But hearts won't be converted, which is what will ultimately stop abortions, legal or not. There is much more potential in President Obama's upcoming meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, an event about which TCT has been conspicuously silent. In the spirit of Gaudium et Spes, perhaps, the Pope can truly open the door to new possibilities. - Bradley Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:21:22 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2264 Another fine column. I do not have much hope of a "Good" outcome with this nomination to SCOTUS. The depth of the infiltraion of the proponents of the culture of death is so extensive, particularly in the Obama regime, that there is not much hope of emplacing limits on the murder of innocents in the womb for some time to come. Those who knowingly voted for these amoral monsters have innocent blood on their heads. Try hiding that on your seamless garment when your time here comes to an end. - dust Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:20:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2262 Let's assume the hearings pan out as you describe above, and Sotomayor speaks confidently of infanticide and the like. Who's going to report it to the public? - Matt Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:20:15 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2263 I would love to forward this and a couple of other writings to the people who will be questioning Judge Sotomayor. How can we find out which Republicans will serve in order to put this idea into their heads? - Jennifer B Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:19:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2260 Brilliant, Professor. Now is there someone in your world of education and/or politics who could see that our Pro-Life Senators and Congressmen, few as they are, could read this? I worry that this line of questioning will not happen unless someone lights the fire and gets it going. It is so frustrating to be in this world of Obama. Frightening too for my kids and grandkids... Please, will somebody out there use his connections to advise or admonish the few Congressmen on this issue.Please God. - Naomi Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:19:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2259 Outstanding advice Professor. You should run for the Senate. - Dan Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:18:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/new-hearings-new-possibilities.html#comment-2258 Thanks Mr. Arkes for the glimmer of hope amidst the impending judicial farce. Anyone who thinks Sotomayor, a handpicked choice of the most anti-life politician ever, will turn out to be moderate in her opinions is naive. Hopefully, the Catholics who voted for this regime, confused by economic woes and the moral eqiuivalency of abortion, war and poverty will see this appointment as a part of an agenda to further politicize the court and rule from the bench rather than through the legislature. - Willie Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:30:57 +0100