I wrote this last week for the National Catholic Register. I’ve been trying to find my way back into writing for quite a while. It isn’t easy. Every time I think I’m moving forward, I fall down. I get sick again; not cancer sick, but too sick to do anything. I get colds, kidney infections, gastrointestinal thingies, then I get another cold, and so on and so forth. Each little illness — and these things come at me like... Read more
We are called to evangelization. The laity can join. in this work. In fact, we must. Read more
Sorry for the gap in posting folks. I’ve been sick again. But, I’m feeling better today! Prayers requested that I can get all the way well. In Christ, Rebecca Read more
There’s a new/old sheriff in town, and she’s had cancer. What does that mean? It means that I’m going to attempt to post here on Patheos once again in a fairly regular fashion. But I’m tired, worn and no longer have the energy and patience for nasty people who come here to exercise their inner jerk. The main reason I’m back here at all is that Public Catholic has become a safe and happy on-line community for some of the... Read more
I wrote this post for the National Catholic Register a few weeks back. Since then, the United States Supreme Court has stayed action on forcing girls in public schools to go to the bathroom with boys who identify themselves as transgendered. What this means in the long run, I can’t predict. I will say that unless we convert the culture, we are ultimately doomed to fail in the courts and legislatures. Peoples is crazy. And they are getting crazier. They are... Read more
I’m not feeling well so I will be in and out for a while. Apologies. Read more
These videos tell the story of one young family’s fight with cancer. Mom of the family had cancer, and she was pregnant when she was diagnosed, but the entire family fought the disease, which is how it has to be. Nobody fights cancer alone. God bless husbands and wives who go through this journey with their spouses. They are doing eternity work. Read more
This post for Catholic Vote was the first post I wrote after being away so long. I felt like someone trying to ride a bicycle for the first time in years; all wobbles and uncertainty. So, I went with something I believe to my core and have written about many times before: Many Christians on both sides of the political spectrum have made a false god of their political parties. They trim their faith to fit their politics. I knew... Read more
I’m back. Sort of. As I explain in this post I wrote for the National Catholic Register, I feel like a shipwreck victim who has washed up on a strange shore. I’ve been so completely immersed in that nether world of cancer treatment and fighting for my life that this normal world seems odd to me. The values of this world are backwards to me now, more so than they already were backward to me as a practicing Christian. The... Read more
I stopped off at Catholic Vote this morning to write a post adding to another post by my friend Kate O’Hare. Kate took on the questions circling cancer and euthanasia. Cancer is one of those dread diseases that euthanasia salesmen use to convince people that the compassionate thing to do for people is to kill them. Then, they buttress this cold-blooded thought salad of an argument with claims that people are begging for the opportunity to be killed. Uh-huh. These... Read more
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