PS

If you go here, you can help Pansy Moss, who is in desperate straits and can use all the help she and her seven kids can get.

Please note that our mission as Catholics is not to adjudicate the sins of any party in this tragedy in our comboxes. When people issue a cry for help, our task is not to stand there taking sides, passing judgment, and ending up in a shouting match over which party is most to blame. The great danger, I have learned over the years, about posting cries for help in domestic disputes is that there will be a surge of sympathy for the wronged party, coupled with denunciations of the wronging party. Then somebody will come along reminding us of our duty to pray for the bad guy and then throwing in some remark suggesting that the victim had it coming. Then more shouts of anger from the friends of the wronged party and so forth.

That’s exactly what happened while I was gone, as I feared. I have junked some of this conversation and will presently junk the rest. Here’s what’s needed people: help. Not your adjudication of the sins of people about whom you know nothing. Take that itchy trigger finger and click on the link above. Go to Pansy’s Help Fund and stick some $$$ in it. Write a note, not to diagnose what, in your utterly ignorant opinion is wrong with her or her husband, but to tell her you are praying that God, who is the *only* one who truly knows what’s going on, would see his perfect will done for them in Christ Jesus. Then hit send. That will actually help.

Sheesh!