Don’t ask me about last night’s Yankees-Mets game. I got through the first inning (watching A-Rod park one out in left field), and then I fell asleep. I woke up around 10:30p, noticing that the TV was still on and that somehow my arm must have changed the channel. “LA Law” was on the tube. But then I shut down for the night. I was happy to learn that the Yankees won.

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The head of the New York Archdiocese, Edward Cardinal Egan, wants to stop a bill going through the New York State legislature that, if passed, would reduce the time to get  a divorce. Right now, it takes upwards of a year to get a divorce in New York. The legislature’s bill would reduce that to 3 months.

In a memo circulated to all lawmakers, lobbyists for the Catholic Conference argue the bill would jar “the very foundation for social stability.”

“Marriage is not a disposable commodity; it is a public legal commitment, a powerful protector of children, and a blessed sacrament to many people of faith,” the conference argues.

“The state ought to be looking for ways to strengthen marriage, not weaken it,” said Dennis Poust, spokesman for the Catholic Conference.

Egan is right. We are treating marriage less and less like it was intended. The government is treating it more like a non-binding contract that you can get out of when “things don’t go right.”

More over at the New York Daily News.

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Loved this story in the Post: 

A prostitute once locked St. Patrick’s Cathedral rector Monsignor Robert Ritchie in a hospital room and begged him to pray for her protection from the dangers of her job, he recounted yesterday.

Ritchie, who told the story during a Father’s Day sermon at St. Pat’s, said the odd but enlightening incident took place in the 1960s, when he was a 19-year-old seminarian and working as an orderly at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village.

Why would I love a story like this?

This shows that even those engaged in sinful behavior know that they need someone on their side to help them. And that person is God.

It is so much easier to ignore the sinner than to pray for them. We love to condemn sin, but when it comes time to think about the sinner, we seem to always direct our thoughts on the sin.

That’s why in our daily prayer life, praying for sinners is important.