Being a superior is something I am very afraid of since I think having souls in one’s charge involves a lot of danger. St Teresa of Avila So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd and they have become easy prey for the wild beasts. Exekiel 34:5 Shepherding God’s flock, feeding His lambs, is a grave responsibility. You bishops, priests, preachers of the Gospel, owners and managers of “apostolates,” “ministries,” workers in Christian and Catholic media have taken on... Read more
Never to pay attention to the vessel in which I send you my grace … all (your) attention should be concentrated on responding to My grace as faithfully as possible. Jesus, speaking to Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska I am writing this post for people who sometimes feel alienated from the Church because of its indifference to them and their suffering. I am writing it for the victims of sexual abuse and rape, of discrimination and prejudice; for the ignored, the despised... Read more
Since the Church began aiming more at worldly things than at spiritual, things have gone from bad to worse. Catherine of Siena Our bishops are well educated, highly intelligent, verbally slick, immensely talented men. As such, they will always be subject to the temptations that beset people who are more intelligent and talented than those around them. One of those temptations is to use those talents to gain power over other people and use that power — while lying to... Read more
The United States House of Representatives finally passed aid to Ukraine, after long, destructive months of delay by Putin’s Republicans. I would guess that a lot of people — die-hard, knee-jerk Republicans in particular — breathed a sigh of relief. Now, in their thinking at least, everything is right as rain and they can go back to believing we live in a land of ponies and rainbows because the political party that they hold in deeper reverence than they do... Read more
One of the many pleasures of these years of infirmity and advancing age is the gift of time. Convalescence from cancer, heart attacks, strokes and the like is a slow process that involves doing things that are difficult and that I don’t like such as exercise, changed diet, and forbearance on the one hand, and long, fallow days of learning a new normal, and a new way to structure my life and living on the other hand. I can’t do... Read more
“I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs,” he said. “A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract.” Pope Francis Last January, Pope Francis labeled surrogate pregnancy “deplorable” and called for a worldwide ban on the practice. He called it the “commercialization” of pregnancy. When I was... Read more
Student debt relief is a massively important pro life, pro family government policy. A member of our family, who is an ordained minister, told us several years ago that he was being approached by young couples who want to marry, but can’t afford to do so because if they married, their combined incomes would increase the payments on their student loans so much that they could not afford to live. Their solution was to ask him to marry them without... Read more
Ukraine has been forced to withdraw from key positions, giving Russia a new advantage in their war of conquest. Meanwhile, Putin’s Republicans in the House of Representatives are STILL refusing to allow aid for Ukraine to come to a vote. Instead of doing the job we elected them to do, most of these Republicans are cooling their heels at CPAC, the major Republican fundraising meet-up which has become an anti-American, anti-democracy cesspool. As a for-instance of what today’s Republican Party... Read more
Do you remember when the Republican Party stood for a strong national defense? Those days, and that party are dead and gone. Today’s Republican Party is now working to aid Putin in his war on Ukraine. And they are succeeding in helping him destroy that democracy. Republicans have refused to pass authorization for aid to Ukraine for months now. Their reasons for doing this keep changing, which is always an indication of a lie. Right now, they are using the... Read more
Women are raped, murdered, mutilated, sold as slaves, forced into marriage, forced to submit to sex, forced to bear children, denied education, medical care and individual freedoms. Denying women and girls basic civil and human rights is regarded is regarded as righteousness all around the globe … all simply because they are female. I passed a law back in 2009 making it a crime to perform what is known as Female Genital Mutilation (FMG) in Oklahoma. It’s not easy, passing... Read more
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