It seems the president has found a form of pollution he doesn’t like, and that is human beings. At this point, you’d be forgiven for thinking that he loved destruction and pollution for its own sake. The Environmental Protection agency isn’t in the business of regulating for clean air or clean water anymore; the president doesn’t want to protect our plants or animals either. But this week, the president said that the EPA was going to cite the state of... Read more
It was bright daylight outside, but not inside. Inside, it was dark. I was sitting at my computer, trying to write as usual. Michael was taking a nap. Rosie was taking a break from homeschooling to play in her room. The sun was doing its best to burst through the cracks in the blinds, leaving clean yellow stripes on the carpet. The blinds were drawn because of our neighbor. We always keep the blinds drawn, because when we used to... Read more
Today, I want everyone to do something for me. We just recently had the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, so this should be easy. I want you to try to remember what you felt like on 9/11. Remember the fear, the panic, the betrayal. Remember how perfectly commonplace landmarks that had always been there became images of horror. Or if you can’t remember because you were too young, try to imagine how it would feel. I talked a little... Read more
I don’t usually pay much mind to Father Leo Patalinghug. He’s just one of those celebrity priests who posts things on Twitter. But today, he grabbed my attention and that of quite a few people in a worrying way. Today, Father Leo shared a short video taken of some kind of aerobics class, which involved a group of women in hot pants vibrating their butts. I’m not going to link to that because, while I think the women were just... Read more
I am grateful to the Washington Post for keeping up their excellent reporting on the sickening case of ex-Bishop Bransfield’s sinful excesses. I commented on their last piece earlier this summer, and now they’ve released another. This one goes into more detail about how Bransfield lived during the thirteen years he was the shepherd of the diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in America. We get to hear about how, when the Catholics of West... Read more
In case you haven’t noticed, the Church is a ghastly mess. I almost said “an ungodly mess,” but that’s not the case at all. God is here, suffering with us. But the hierarchy’s sins are being laid bare and we see that the Bride of Christ was abused by the people who were supposed to be her caretakers, and she is a mess. At the moment we are all watching the Diocese of Buffalo fall apart in real time,... Read more
As I write this, it is a few minutes after midnight on September 11, 2019. A moment ago, people born on September 11, 2001, turned eighteen years old. A moment ago, there were still a few people who were minors before or during the 9/11 attacks on America. Now there aren’t. Today, everyone born before or during the 9/11 attacks is a grown-up. Everyone born after them is still a child. I once saw a meme on Facebook, a... Read more
A friend shared a long public facebook status from somebody else this morning, and the status puzzled me, and then it made me sad. It was one of those messages people write for any person who sees it and who happens to be contemplating suicide. It began “if you commit suicide today,” and it led the reader through a series of speculations on what the people around you would do. “The person you love most will find your body. She’ll... Read more
It’s now September. the time of year when I’ll start re-sharing my posts on the Satanic Panic and Halloween. And in the news we have the story of Father Reehill, the eccentric priest who banned Harry Potter because he thought the spells were real– and, of course, the news is now coming out that this is not the first time Father Reehill has acted irrationally. Concerned parents have met with the diocese about him on three separate occasions because... Read more
As predicted, I’ve gotten quite a bit of feedback on my post from yesterday about how the Harry Potter novels aren’t real. And most of it has been positive, but I’ve also gotten some feedback from people telling me I’m mistaken. The arguments for Harry Potter actually being demonic seem to go like this: “the novel portrays the practice of magic as if it’s morally neutral. In real life, if you actually attempted to say a magic word to cause... Read more
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