In the face of this deplorable evil, the church kneels before God and implores his forgiveness for the sins of her children. I myself wish to reaffirm this, with shame and unambiguously. I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous Peoples. Pope Francis I have read that a certain segment of Catholics are upset and angry because Pope Francis apologized to the native people of Canada. They are outraged that... Read more
It began with a hack. Or rather, it began with me, being a dummy and giving away information that I should have held close. A longtime friend of mine, someone I served with in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, contacted me through Facebook. He told me that he’d lost my info. So, I blithely gave him my phone number and email address. I cooperated with him completely because I trust him completely. The only trouble was that the person I... Read more
I skipped mass yesterday. It was the best decision I’ve made for my own spiritual and moral health in a long time. I’ve been living in a kind of purgatory ever since the Kavanaugh confirmation. The reason is clear cut. What happened to me is that the Kavanaugh hearing destroyed my belief in the goodness of the Church. It was a two part change. First, I stopped believing that the bishops care if women are raped, tortured and murdered.... Read more
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade today. I’ve linked to the full decision so that you can read it yourself. It begins with a syllabus, which is basically the Cliff Notes. You can scroll down through that to get to the full decision itself. I haven’t read it yet. But I did glance at it. From what I saw, Alito cleaned up his language a bit, but most of the things that troubled me about his verbiage in the... Read more
The first Democratic witness testified on Day 4 of the hearings on Trump’s attempt to overthrow America’s government and make himself a dictator. The other witnesses have all been career Republicans who have held high positions in our government for years. Most of them have been attorneys and White House staff or Republican elected officials. They were, to a person, active Trump supporters in the 2020 election. Many of them had spent years working as Trump’s toadies. They had been... Read more
If you missed Day 4 of the committee hearings on the Jan 6 coup attempt by Donald Trump, you can watch it here. The abuse that Trump and his supporters heaped on the few Republican officials — all of whom had supported Trump’s bid for re-election — who refused to destroy America for him, was outrageous and dangerous. For a president to use his powers in this way is a contradiction of everything our country stands for. It is something... Read more
Here is yesterday’s hearing of the Jan 6 Committee. The hearings had a long patch in which a witness explained the legal reasons for why what Trump and his crew did was treasonous. It gets off into the legal weeds a bit. The easy way to summarize it is to say that America is not Russia or a tin-pot third world dictatorship. America is a Republic, and Americans are a free people because it is a Republic. Our leaders do... Read more
Before Abraham was, I Am. Jesus I’ve heard a lot of sermons on the Trinity. In fact, I hear a sermon on the Trinity once a year. But I’ve only heard one good sermon. It was well over 20 years ago in a small Episcopalian Church our family attended for a number of years. The priest in question was one of the kindest and best pastors I’ve ever had. Here is a summary of what he taught us on the Trinity.... Read more
Representative Liz Cheney released a video discussing the 1/6 hearings earlier this week, and previewing the hearing on Thursday. Here’s what she said about the attack on our democracy. Read more
A new poll shows that 49% of Americans think that we are going to lose our democracy. I think that if the Republicans take over the Congress next November, that may very well turn out to be true. A Republican win in November will put the exact same people who authored resolutions and voted to overturn the 2020 election in control of the United States Congress. Think about that for a moment. A vote for Republicans in November is a... Read more
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