Dona Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda (1515-1582), better known as St Teresa of Avila, is one of the giants of the Catholic Church. Her descriptions of her relationship to “His Majesty,” as she called Jesus, are so deep and intense, that only those who have achieved great spiritual growth understand them. It was Teresa and...
Year: 2019
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Politics Continues to Determine Dietary Standards – not Science
When I first wrote this article and published it on Helium (a now defunct E-Zine) no one was concerned about the effects of the human diet on climate change. Today, politicians are claiming that a plant based diet will save the planet. These politicians are woefully out of touch with the research on diet –...
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God’s Time is Timeless and Always in the Present Time
(This article was originally published in Helium 11/8/2013) Human beings created the concept of time and neatly divided it into manageable segments including the concepts of the past (any moment that is neither present nor future); the present (right now, this moment and also by extension, today); and future (time that has not yet happened)....
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The Importance of the Respect for Life
I wrote this article for Helium, a now-defunct ezine in January, 2013. All of the statement are based upon that version of the Catechism on the commandment “Thou shall not kill (murder).” I still hold to these opinions. Please note that all the links to the USCCB comments on the Catechism of the Catholic Church...
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I am going to die
I am going to die I don’t know when, or how, or why, but I know I will die. Why avoid this basic truth? Is it because we can’t bear to think that we will no longer exist – that there is nothing after death – just a nothingness like being “put under” an anesthetic...
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Please Stop Bashing the Vernacular Mass and Vatican II
I am so tired of reading tweets by priests on Twitter who persist in bashing the vernacular Mass and stating that only the Latin Mass is valid. I am equally tired of all the Vatican II bashing I read. I have lived long enough to have had experience in both forms of the Mass. I...
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Does the “Good of the Many Outweigh the Good of the One?”
I am probably not quoting Star Trek correctly, but you get the idea. When do the needs of one person outweigh the needs of the community? It’s a question I struggled with throughout my career as a nurse educator. What to do with the poor student? In the days when nurses were trained in hospitals,...
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Just Another Rant
I am so tired of hearing that Life Site News (a conservative Catholic media outlet) lies and is anti-Catholic. The reporters on Life Site that cover the Vatican are just doing their job – reporting what is going on. If people don’t want to know the inner workings of the Vatican – don’t read the...
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Accepting Suffering Versus Asking for a Miracle of Healing
For years I have been dithering about the pain in my knees. Before my numerous knee replacements and revisions, I never knew whether to pray for the miracle of healing or whether to just accept the suffering from the constant pain or even whether to have the surgeries. My culture tells me/told me that it...
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The Tendentious Letter Accusing Pope Francis of Heresy
A group of scholars drafted a letter accusing Pope Francis of heresy causing a tsunami of articles in the Catholic press. The critics of the letter say it does not prove its case, that there is no evidence of ‘heresy’ in the letter. Others say it is premature. Here we have a letter by one...
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