She sez: I need help but I don’t know where to turn. I am going through a depression crisis: No family to turn to, disappointed with my life, wondering why, at 75 and not knowing what I exist for, I am still alive when a woman I know who is a few years younger, with a good marriage, a nice husband, grandchildren that she adores, even her younger son is a priest, and she is now in palliative care… I... Read more
These are fake, as far as I know, but they illustrate a truth: None of your peers respect you, loser. Nor do your subordinates as Wolff’s book crushingly shows. Nor do 2/3 of the electorate. You know it–and it’s eating you alive. Also, it wasn’t your first try. You ran in 2000. Stable geniuses remember RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. Read more
…and has a question about the book. Sez he: Am reading chapter 7 and have a question with regard to subsection entitled “Pride Envy and Deceit”.When supporting the needy how does one discern between those who can but don’t and those who can’t because they can’t other than destitute children? My general counsel is “Don’t worry about it.” If it’s a charity that seems like a scam (such as a phone call that seems sketchy), you can generally check on... Read more
He is engaged to marry his mother. But because of precious, precious paperwork, will be torn away from this woman and the child who needs him desperately. Christianists savor the cruelty of destroying this boy’s fragile support system. They love it. Love it. They love the chance to call his mother a slut who has it coming. They love the opportunity to say “The kid’s mother should be his caregiver” while also calling her a lazy parasite who should get... Read more
Quoth he: Up until now I had avoided commenting directly on Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia (AL). As a former tribunal canonist whose experience is mainly within the Canadian and American context, I was much more interested in Pope Francis’s 2015 reforms simplifying marriage tribunal procedure. These reforms have had much greater effect on any day-to-day ministry in a developed world context than AL’s controversial footnote, in my opinion. In assisting priest friends with tribunal-related ministry in their parishes (particularly during... Read more
Since people have asked, here are my complete thoughts on Amoris Laetitia. I don’t care about it. At all. Okay. That’s probably not enough to satisfy so permit me to elaborate a little. Personally, I care not a whit. Nothing in it concerns me since I’m in a happy, stable marriage that is in no need of the pastoral care this manual (aimed at shepherds) is trying to instruct. Nor am I a shepherd, canonist, counselor, or marriage healing... Read more
A reader writes: Please help Dale and Suzanne Florence-Zavatter, two colleagues of mine facing the return of Suzanne’s cancer. They’re great people who could use a hand. Mark Shea–maybe add them to the list of people needing prayer on your blog, please? Father, hear our prayer for Suzanne’s complete healing in body, soul, and spirit. Give her caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, skill, creativity, insight, understanding, and the proper technology to assist in her healing and give her and all... Read more
Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence….. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018 ….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and,... Read more
The spectacle of the decay of American Conservative Catholicism from this: to Milo Yiannopolous will be the subject of some future history. Here are just the editorial comments on his ridiculous book Dangerous, made by some poor sod whose job was to try to make this glob of junk into a book. It’s hilarious: I didn’t read the manuscript. Just the comments. They’re…amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing. And a pretty good summary of the book I... Read more
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