Realalaskan Obit

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Friday August 28, 2015 · 9:04 AM PDT

2015/08/28 · 09:04

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If contraception is such a big deal to the bishops....

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Sunday February 12, 2012 · 6:05 AM PST

2012/02/12 · 06:05

Why doesn't the Catholic hierarchy aggressively preach/teach/exhort its members to abandon "artificial" birth control?

First a disclaimer, I haven't attended church regularly over the past few years, but I was a regular Roman Catholic who attended mass, sang in the choir and was if not a devout at least a "practicing" Catholic.

In reflecting about the Catholic Bishops' outrage over the Obama administration's inclusion of contraception in the "basic" portion of health insurance something struck me as interesting. The church has had "policies" and "teachings" opposed to artificial birth control for as long as I can remember, yet it was extremely rare to ever hear anything about it from the pulpit or in letters from the bishop. We'd hear an annual (or in some parishes more frequent) "pro-life" homily and or letter. However as far as contraception went, nothing. Perhaps there might be a note in the bulletin about a "natural family planning" (rhythm) class somewhere, but I can't remember the church challenging its "faithful" on the issue of "artificial birth control."

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 8:28 AM PDT

2008/09/23 · 08:28

We're in a crisis here and there's no time to waste. We're being told that if we don't bail out Wall Street by buying up their derivatives, we're all doomed.

What I'm wondering is: What would happen if we put our resources into the underlying mortgages rather than into the traders' exotic, highly leveraged, house-of-cards debt instruments?

Perhaps this would better as a comment, but I'm hoping that some of our economic and financial services folks can provide assistance to compensate for my lack of knowledge and concurrent lack of research time. My apologies for not providing research. I just have a fundamental question/brainstorm that I'd like some reaction to.

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If contraception is such a big deal to the bishops....

How about a "Bottom-up" grassroots bailout instead of the usual "trickle down" feeding of the rich?