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
Bishop William Callahan acknowledged that Father James Altman has inflicted a “wound” on the Church with his ranting political homilies. Bishop Callahan said that he is going to apply “Gospel principles” in his dealings with Fr Altman by reasoning with him first. The bishop specifically mentioned an explosive YouTube video in which Father Altman demonized a number of people and said “You can’t be a Catholic and be a Democrat. Period.” The article I read didn’t mention whether or not... Read more
Father James Altman of St James the Less Roman Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wisconsin is the clerical darling of the racist, misogynist Catholic radical right. He regularly puts his homilies on YouTube where he can infect as many people as possible with his anti-Christ ravings. I don’t know if this is true of every homily he gives, but the ones I’ve watched make no effort to teach or explain the Gospels or Catholic teaching. His homilies that I’ve... Read more
draft Pope Francis upheld the right to education at the International Day of Protect Education from Attack. From Vatican News: As the world celebrates the first International Day to Protect Education from Attack on Wednesday, Pope Francis appealed to the international community to ensure educational structures are protected from attacks. “I invite you to pray for students who are seriously deprived of the right to education due to war and terrorism,” he said during his weekly General Audience on Wednesday... Read more
draft It appears that Russia did pay extremists a bounty for assassinating American soldiers in Afghanistan. From Business Insider: Taliban commanders have confirmed that Russia has offered financial and material support to its members in exchange for attacking US forces in Afghanistan. The practice was first reported on Friday by The New York Times, which cited US intelligence officials. Read more
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