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Quote Unquote  “Thank
God we can always count on Kathy Griffin to inject a little energy into
a boring awards show.”
New York magazine commenting on the controversy created by comedian
Kathy Griffin when she held up her Emmy trophy and said, “Suck it,
Jesus, this award is my God now!” Griffin, who won Outstanding Reality
Program for her Bravo show, My Life on the D-List, was subsequently targeted
by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who called on Dick
Askin, chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,
to denounce Griffin. Within 24 hours, the Academy branded Griffin’s
comments “offensive” and announced that it would omit them
from the taped telecast of the awards on E!
“He said, ‘I know a doctor . . .’”
Army Capt. Brian Jantzen, who was wounded in Iraq, about how a conversation
with Flip Mullen led to Dr. John Kennedy of the Hospital of Special Surgery
operating on his leg. Capt. Jantzen was facing amputation, but Dr. Kennedy,
who thought he could save the leg, said:
“In our experience, we’ve found something like this can
be
treated, to give him realistic hope he can save his leg.”
Dr. Kennedy,, who has operated on six soldiers to date, and Flip Mullen,
who works with the Wounded Warrior program, met when both were being honored
as Top 100 Irish- Americans.
– Michael Daly writing in The Daily News
“I am a Latin Mass Catholic. I go to the Tridentine rite every
Sunday at St. Mary’s Mother of God in Washington, D.C. I love the
beauty, solemnity and awe of the Latin Mass.”
Patrick J. Buchanan, right-wing pundit, interviewed in the New York
Times Magazine.
“I’m scared. I have never been scared before but I’m
scared now that we are losing our way. Not because somebody is taking
it away but because we are giving it away. It’s getting ugly out
there.”
Popular CNN commentator Jack Cafferty appearing on Lou Dobbs’ show
to promote It’s Getting Ugly Out There, his new current affairs
book about America.
 “It’s
easy to talk about our son because he was an absolutely wonderful man
and boy growing up. He was polite, humble, reserved and a real gentleman.”
Daniel Murphy said of his son Michael (pictured left), who was killed
leading his four-man team into the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan
in June 2005. Michael was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously in a
ceremony at the White House on October 22. He is the first Navy Seal to
be awarded the Medal of Honor for service in Afghanistan. Michael’s
parents Daniel (who spoke to the Irish Voice) and Maureen received
the medal from President Bush.
“He is a man [Solanus Casey], born in the U.S. who might become
a saint, and they didn’t care that he was here for three years .
. .This isn’t an issue of just a little church in East Harlem. It’s
an issue of the entire church.”
Parishioners of Our Lady Queen of Angels, on East 113th Street in Spanish
Harlem, which was closed by the Archdiocese of New York. Rev. Solanus
Casey lived at the church from 1921 to 1924. Born Bernard Francis Casey,
November 25, 1870, the oldest of 16 children of an Irish-American family
from Superior, Wisconsin, Casey had already been a lumberjack, a prison
guard, and a streetcar motorman before joining the priesthood and taking
the name Solanus. Casey is a revered figure who was declared “venerable,”
by Pope John Paul II, the second of four steps on the path to sainthood.
He would be the first American-born male saint, a fact that parishioners
of Our Lady Queen of Angels say is lost on the Archdiocese of New York.
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