The fan on the power supply for my desktop computer died Monday at some point. Fortunately I got home Monday night. The computer was black-screened, and very hot to the touch. I hope it did not roast itself to death, but until I get a new power supply in, I cannot test. This is a significant concern, because I had been hoping to avoid significant computer expenses for a while.

“[T]he temptation to use power to secure the faith has arisen again and again in various forms throughout the centuries, and again and again faith has risked being suffocated in the embrace of power. The struggle for the freedom of the Church, the struggle to avoid identifying Jesus’ Kingdom with any political structure, is one that has to be fought century after century. For the fusion of faith and political power always comes at a price: faith becomes the servant of power and must bend to its criteria.” – Pope Benedict XVI

A Catholic Hospital in Japan has set up a “baby hatch” where parents can drop off unwanted infants anonymously.¹ The Prime Minister and the Mayor of Kumamoto, the city in which it opened, oppose this, but found no legal grounds on which to stop it. Both appear to object to it on the grounds that it should not be necessary.

I agree absolutely, it should not be necessary. But in any country where the birthrate is held unnaturally low by abortion, it is necessary. We must give parents every possible alternative to aborting their children. We must give them every assistance, every reassurance, every help. If having an ability to drop off a baby at a hospital, where it will have a chance at life, will persuade even a few parents not to kill that poor innocent child, then it is something we must accept, for now, as we work to change society.

I watched part of Bicentenial Man this evening. It is amazing at times how much a good book or a good movie can brighten a day. I figure since I am paying for cable, I might as well use it. The commercials are annoying though, and I notice the missing bits of movie in places.