Today is the 4th anniversary of the canonization of Mother Teresa. Her message seems especially powerful in this time of COVID. Here are a few quotes from this special saint to ponder as we wait for the pandemic of end. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one: This quote emphasizes the importance of helping even a single person. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread:This quote highlights... Read more
draft President Trump has corrected the error of leaving concern for the unborn off the list priorities that Republicans are using instead of a platform this year. Read more
draft For the first time in history, Americans are being asked to vote for a nominee of one of the major political parties whose political party has no platform. The Republican Party of 2020 has decided to forego a platform that is based on principles that were hammered out in a democratic fashion by its active members. The Republican Party chose not to have a platform this year. What it did instead was authorize a list of issues that it... Read more
Liberty University has announced that it will employ an independent “forensic” firm to investigate Jerry Falwell Jr’s tenure as president of the university. From CNN: Liberty University said Monday it’s hired “one of the leading forensic firms in the world” to conduct an investigation of its operations under disgraced former president Jerry Falwell Jr. The investigation will include “all facets” during the evangelical leader’s time as president, “including but not limited to financial, real estate, and legal matters,” the Christian... Read more
Yet I have left me 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed down to Baal, all the mouths that have not kissed him. God. A Christian web site has raised almost $200,000 in individual donations for Kyle Ritenhouse, the teen-aged shooter who murdered two demonstrators in cold blood and injured one other last week. I hope that the remaining Christians in this country will not allow this behavior of their fallen brethren to damage their faith in... Read more
Joe Biden needs to campaign. I’m going to excerpt an article below that is just one of a type. I’ve read several articles like this, all written by people who are trying to convince themselves and us that Joe Biden can win this election while staying home. They tell us that direct voter contact doesn’t matter. But direct voter contact does matter. I know it does. Biden needs to campaign the battleground states in a direct and highly personal way. He... Read more
You can not, with any integrity or ability to persuade, say that you are pro life and then turn around in the next breath and deny the basic humanity and essential human dignity of whole groups of people. Archbishop Paul Coakley, who is our archbishop in the diocese where I live, was one of the seven authors of the USCCB’s statement on the murder of George Floyd that made this clear. That statement said in part: Too many communities around... Read more
Our Lady appeared to school children in Rwanda a few years before the Genocide. She told them about the coming genocide in very powerful language, telling them that the ground on which they stood would be red with blood. She also told them a way out. “Pray the Seven Sorrows” she told them. I had never heard of the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of Mary until I read this story about the Rwandan genocide. The Marian visitation to Rwanda... Read more
It has been said that music soothes the savage beast. Music also elevates, soothes, inspires, motivates and excites us. This touching video shows a beautiful little boy’s reaction to the Moonlight Sonata the first time he hears it. It clearly overwhelmed him. Read more
Anytime you make a law, issue a ruling or give a legal opinion that constitutes law, you are setting events in motion that will have unintended consequences. The more absolute the language you use in making this law, the more harsh the unintended consequences are going to be. That statement is a simple fact of lawmaking. It expresses the hard and unavoidable reality of governance of any sort, including governance of the Catholic Church. A secondary reality of lawmaking is... Read more
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