by Jim McIntosh | Sep 23, 2015 | Church, Observations |
Sex. As a society, we are obsessed with sex. It is, at the same time, both widely available through Internet porn and also something hidden away and whispered about. Perhaps because it is repressed, sex has become an obsession for us. Due to our obsession, it is what...
by Jim McIntosh | Jan 25, 2014 | Musings |
Watching Steve Job’s launch of the Macintosh computer, makes me recall what a game-changer the Mac was. Up to that point, computers used MS-DOS or CP/M and were character-based machines. The Macintosh introduced the graphics desktop and the mouse, and forced...
by Jim McIntosh | Sep 15, 2013 | Musings, Observations |
I went on a retreat last weekend with the Spanish-speaking Secular Franciscan fraternity which meets at St. Anthony Shrine. We were at a beautiful Benedictine monastery in Still River, Mass. The weather was perfect, with blue skies, warm days and cool nights. The...
by Jim McIntosh | Sep 12, 2013 | Musings |
Derecho de vivir en Paz = The Right to Live in Peace Shortly after the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, Victor Jara was arrested, tortured and ultimately shot dead with 44 machine-gun bullets in the Chile Stadium (renamed Victor Jara Stadium in September 2003). The...
by Jim McIntosh | Sep 2, 2013 | Status |
The Assisi Community makes the news!!! Including this tidbit: “D.C. Council member David Grosso, I-At Large, was raised in a Petworth group home filled with Catholic anti-violence activists, including clergy.” It also says, “When four devout, antiwar...
by Jim McIntosh | Aug 31, 2013 | Observations |
“The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” –Barack Obama,...
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