Bettnet.com - Musings From Domenico Bettinelli Jr.Catholic news and opinionSpeedier- (Found July 8, 2008 ) You may find the blog to be a little speedier today. It has been slowing down as of late, taking forever to load certain pages. I'm no expert on SQL databases (the backend software which runs this site), but when I looked I saw a button marked "optimize", so I clicked it and it seemed to speed things up. Hopefully that was the solution. I am exploring other options as well. As some of you may know, this blog is run from an old computer I have sitting in my spare bedroom and over...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5872 New site, new software- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Okay, so it's not a new site, but it is upgraded software that runs the site and it also means that there is a new URL to access the blog. So from now on, please go to http:bettnet.dyndns.orgblogindex.php That is not a permanent change. Sometime next month I hope to switch to a permanent hosting solution at Bettnet.com, but until then all blogging will happen at the link above. All of my blog entries and...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5880 Pope going home again- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Pope Benedict is going back to his home next September. The Kath.net news service is reporting that he will visit his former Archdiocese of Munich and Friesing and the Diocese of Regensburg in Bavaria.It seems to be definitive. Pope Benedict XVI. will visit Bavaria in 2006. The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and the Diocese of Regensburg have announced to reveal further...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5879 Catholic hospitals handing out "emergency contraception"- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In the midst of good news today that Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney will exempt Catholic hospitals from having to provide so-called "emergency contraception" to rape victims is this disturbing statement at the end of the article: "A third of the state&8217;s Catholic hospitals already offer the morning-after pill, which can halt pregnancy if...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5878 CWR, November 2005: "A Moral Dilemma"- (Found July 8, 2008 ) This article originally appeared in the November 2005 issue of Catholic World Report magazine. A Moral Dilemma by Thomas A. Szyszkiewicz Catholic hospitals treating rape victims face a moral and ethical dilemma: Should they prescribe emergency contraception to these women When a woman is raped and is taken to...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/forum/forum.php?id=P5877 Vatican tells Catholic Charities to stop gay adoptions- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Is this a sign that it's not status quo under the pontificate of Benedict XVI The Boston Herald reports that the Vatican has informed the Boston archdiocese that Catholic Charities must stop placing children for adoption with gay and lesbian couples. (My original blogpost...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5876 No shock: VOTF protests Instruction on gay seminarians- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Recall Voice of the Faithful's insistence, against evidence to the contrary, that they're not a liberal organization, but that they simply don't take sides in controversial issues over doctrine. (Of course, that ignores the fact that by "not taking sides" you are taking sides. If you're not with the Church, you're against her. Recall Christ's promise to vomit out the lukewarm.) Yet, this apparent "Swiss-like neutrality" is repeatedly violated when the Church teaches...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5875 Holding out the cup- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In the thread below about the slowness of the site recently and about how I was thinking about moving to a hosting company to serve it, Zita comments that I should ask for donations to help defray the cost of the move. The last time I rattled the tin cup was last spring and you were all very generous, and I wasn't planning on doing it again. Frankly, it didn't seem necessary at this point. But...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5874 Read all about it! "Former Paperboys Print Irrelevancy in Headline"- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Would someone please get it through the mainstream media's heads that having once been a Catholic altar boy has no significance to anything else that person does later in life It imparts no special honors, signifies no special sanctity, and implies no special training. In a story about former New Jersey governor Jim Greevey abandoning his faith to attend an Episcopal church, after having come out as gay, New York Newsday prints the following headline:...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5873 Menino escalates; dissenters, gays stand up for Catholic Charities- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Boston Mayor Tom Menino amps up the rhetoric against his fellow Catholics, sucks up to the gay community, and Catholic Charities--facing a boycott of Catholics upset over this honor to a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage Catholic politician--is instead receiving support from the gay community. Doesn't the fact that Catholics are boycotting while the radical gay community is lining up as allies give the people at Catholic Charities even a little pause They're looking less and less...http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php?id=P5862 |