My sister died a month ago and I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. I stood next to her bed while she died. I stayed while the nurses washed her body and covered it with sheets. I peeked under the sheets and saw what was left of her mortal remains; eyes wide and fixed, mouth dropped open, so very dead and not really recognizable as my sister. I sat by her dead body for hours, waiting for the... Read more
My sister died a few days ago. She suffered greatly for months. I still don’t feel like writing blog posts, but I do have a brief comment I want to make. I have had cancer. I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone, including Donald J Trump and his whole indecent posse of cruel, bottom-dwelling thugs. I remember when Trump made fun of a disabled man by mocking him, and his crowd of MAGA cheered. I have heard my self-righteous fellow... Read more
Anybody can make mistakes. I’ve made them myself, and I know, no matter how hard I try to source things I write and get them straight, I will continue to make mistakes. The only honest thing to do when that happens is to go back and correct the mistake. If it’s a big mistake, one that attacks a person incorrectly, or misleads people into harm, I must acknowledge the mistake, apologize and correct it. Anything else would turn an honest... Read more
God our Father, send us a Holy Pope, all for the sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, all for the Immaculate and Sorrowful Heart of Mary, in union with St Joseph. Amen. I felt safe with Pope Francis on the throne of Peter. I believed he was a caring and loving man who had no inclination to bring the letter of the law down on people’s heads to control and diminish us. Hubris was not in him. He had seen... Read more
All those who put their hope in God place their feeble hands in his strong and mighty hand; they let themselves be raised up and set out on a journey. Pope Francis, Ubi et Orbi, Easter Sunday. Our beloved Pope Francis has finished his race. The news release from the Vatican did not tell us the exact time or manner of his death. Even though he was still very weak and ill from the illness that almost took his life earlier... Read more
‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’ Matthew 25:45 I had no intention of writing a blog post this week. I’ve been using these last days of Lent to pray and read Scripture. But if I did not say something about what is happening in our country, I could not take communion. I would not be worthy to enter the church. Satan has given... Read more
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29:2 Markets are melting down all over the globe. Instead of reciting numbers, I’m going to show you a screenshot I took this morning. As my Daddy would have said, “Ain’t that a dandy?” Trump has issued a demand that the fed lower interest rates because he’s destroyed the economy and wants them to bring it back to life for him. The... Read more
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. Sun Tzu Yesterday, Trump unilaterally enacted a list of draconian tariffs that effectively declared economic war on the rest of the world. He set America up as the angry and isolated enemy of just about everybody. Trump’s tariffs circle the globe. He even imposed tariffs on islands off Antarctica that are uninhabited. I don’t know what the penguins on those islands did. Maybe they... Read more
Satanists and Catholics met in what one article described as a “bullhorn-powered war of words” at the Kansas State Capitol last weekend. It ended with the lead satanist punching a Catholic and getting himself arrested. The fracas was the culmination of weeks of back and forth between the governing officials of the state, the Catholic archdiocese and the leaders of The Satanic Grotto. Evidently, The Grotto had obtained a permit to perform a “religious exercise” at the Kansas state capitol.... Read more
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. James 4: 8 Jesus was wholly God and wholly human. He cured the sick, raised the dead and taught us what God is really like. At the same time, he felt the pains of human flesh and experienced the sorrows of human existence. He was God, Who had consented to be fully human, and by becoming human, he consented to feel hunger, loneliness, resentment, fear, sorrow and shame. When... Read more
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