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Wictory Wednesday Presents Diana Irey for Congress

This week Wictory Wednesday presents Diana Irey for US Congress. Diana is running against ex-Marine Rep. John Murtha from Pennsylvania who needs no explanation as to why he should be replaced. This race began as what seemed to be an uneventful race against an incumbent who not only didn’t expect competition, but is planning on making a run to become House Minority Leader.

Diana Irey served for ten years as commissioner of Washington County and served on a number of boards and commissions bring jobs and fiscal discipline to the local government. She supports not only lower taxes but lower government spending. While Murtha’s campaign seems to revolve around nothing else but the Iraq War (albeit an important issues), Irey is approaching running for office with a variety of stances on issues including supporting victory in Iraq and treating soldiers with respect, not as criminals.

Most importantly Diana is not a beltway bureaucrat and has served only in local offices until now. She will not only bring a local perspective to a seat that is held by an individual more concerned with his own national profile, she will support balanced budgets and intelligent policy-making to a Congress that has shown itself to be free with the money entrusted to it.

Please consider supporting the campaign of Diana Irey for the House of Representatives for the 12th District of Pennsylvania.

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June 20th, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | National, Politics, Wictory Wednesday | one comment

Catholic Carnival - Corpus Christi Edition

Here’s this week’s Catholic Carnival, a weekly roundup of self-submitted posts from Catholic bloggers.

Reflections

Harrison Ayre at Witness to Hope presents Reflections on the Problem of Evil. “The Problem of Evil is one of the greatest problems that have ever plagued theologians and philosophers. How do we reconcile evil with a Good and Loving God?”
Audrey Yii at My Journey presents Being Too ‘Salty’. “Jesus said Christians are called to be salts of the world. But how ’salty’ should we be? This post is about my personal experience when I’ve added too much ’salt’.”
Tom Reagan presents Maturing in a View of Jesus Through the Rosary. This is Part II in Tom’s 3-part series Maturing in a View of Jesus, a View of Mary, and a View of Ourselves Through the Rosary. Part I is about maturing in a view of Mary, and Part III will be about maturing in a view of ourselves.

Elena LaVictoire at My Domestic Church presents A Teachable Spirit. “I post a lot about the difficulties of the Titus 2 responsibility and how it is difficult to live out that command. It is my opinion, that a great deal of that comes from an unteachable spirit in many young women today. I came across two examples of this in blogs by first time moms this week. ”

Jay at Living Catholicism presents Want a Better Marriage? Marriage Encounter is for You. “My wife and I just attended a Marriage Encounter weekend and these are my thoughts on why you should attend with your spouse.”
A Penitent Blogger presents Dark Accusations and Hard Questions, a reflection on our need to be diligent as servants of a just and merciful God”

The Feast of Corpus Christi

Leo Wong at Diary of a City Parishioner presents The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ with thoughts on the Real Presence.

Kevin Miller at HMS Blog presents The Sum of All Sacrifices, a reflection on the Mass readings for Corpus Christi, focusing on what sort of sacrifice the Eucharist is.

Father’s Day

Christine at Ramblings of a GOP Soccer Mom presents National Review Roundup on Dads discussing how important fathers are.

Other Uncategorized Stuff

Herbery Ely at HerbEly presents Book Review: Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions can Teach Us. This book is the result of a one-day invitational forum on the applicability of the Just War tradition to the modern world. Herb recommends the book but wishes that it had given more background on 1) the decline of war over the past twenty five years; 2) von Clausewitz’s famous dictum about war being the continuation of politics; and 3) the context of turning the other cheek. He provides links to additional resources.

Rob at Crusader of Justice presents Summer Reading List on eight books with a Catholic theme to them that he really enjoyer many of them from his first year at Franciscan.

BarbaraSzyskiewicz at SFO Mom presents An Open Letter to Woman’s Day Magazineon why one Catholic mom cannot, in good conscience, continue to
subscribe to this mainstream magazine.

Humor

cehwiedel at Kicking Over My Traces presents Bill Mauldin Collection

June 20th, 2006 Posted by John Bambenek | Blogging, Carnivals, Religion | 3 comments