I hope that Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. Based on what I’ve heard about her from people who know her, I think that Judge Coney would vote to overturn Roe v Wade. We have five supposedly pro life justices on the Supreme Court. We were told that each of them in turn would vote to overturn Roe. That will give us six “pro life” justices. I do not doubt that the Republican Senate is going to... Read more
Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees contained several important points. His main points were: You have to know in order to understand. Knowledge is a necessary step towards understanding others. It is necessary to be close in order to serve. In order to be reconciled, we need to listen. In order to grow, it is necessary to share. We need to be involved in order to promote. It is necessary to cooperate in order to... Read more
COVID deaths have crossed the 200,000 mark. That number does not include the people who didn’t and didn’t need to die because they were unable to receive timely medical care for other ailments due to the logjams in our hospitals. It also doesn’t include the COVID related grief of not being able to be with your loved one while they are dying or having a loved one die without receiving the sacraments because of COVID. I’ve read stories online of... Read more
Recovering from a stroke is spooky weird. Problems show up that you didn’t know you had long afterwards. Also, even after you have passed the early recovery, you can still manage to recover further. It takes enormous work and repetition. And, just when you think you are making progress, it will slide back down again. But it can be done. A large part of stroke recovery is to keep on working to recover. As with a lot of things, it’s... Read more
God bless and keep Father Frank. Please Lord, heal him and restore him to your company. I’ve read the blog posts written by my colleagues. I’ve gone to the Amarillo diocesan web site and read their official declaration about Father Pavone. I am also privy to the concern within the pro life movement about his increasingly destructive behavior these past four years. To put it simply, Father Frank has gone rogue. He’s out there alone in his wild-eyed craziness. He’s... Read more
Hey Okies! That’s not haze in the sky. It’s smoke. The West coast is burning down and — Surprise! — your boy Trump isn’t doing a thing. We’re talking about the whole West coast from Mexico to Canada; all our beautiful cities, towns and majestic forests are ablaze. The fires are spreading inland for what looks on the map like close to a thousand miles. Say a prayer for your beautiful west coast. Read more
draft Isolation is one of the most effective ways to “break” people. Solitary confinement is used in prison because it works. Whatever the risks and frustrations of being in the larger prison population, they are not as damaging and as intolerable for most people as the intense suffering caused by simply being locked in a cell alone for days and weeks. Many Americans are going through something similar to solitary confinement due to COVID. Those of us who have family... Read more
draft The entire West Coast of the United States is burning. The wildfires on the West Coast are part of what is coming for planet Earth, courtesy of global warming. We’ve got plagues, wildfires and killer swarms of mosquitos in the South. It’s looking like Pope Francis was right about global warming. Read more
When you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you. Jesus Christ God breathed the universe into existence with a single breath that we call the Big Bang. Before that, there was nothing at all. Time itself did not exist. The creative force that is God is far beyond our comprehension. It is a miracle that I cannot explain that He made us... Read more
A few years after my knock-me-flat-in-the-middle-of-the-road religious conversion, and many years before I entered the Catholic Church, my husband and I were church hunting. Hubby got the idea that we should look at a big ole rompin’ stompin’ charismatic church that is not too far from where we now live. So, one fine Sunday, we left the kids with my Mama and gave it a go. My grandmother had been a Pentecostal Holiness preacher, so I kind of knew what... Read more
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