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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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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Comments on Today’s Catholic News May 16, 2019
Canada has a Charter of Freedoms just as the US has a Bill of Rights. Both countries guarantee the right of citizens to practice their religion. Unless, of course, it conflicts with liberal policies and beliefs. Canada has now become an official bully. Trampling on the rights and freedoms of health care practitioners. What boggles...
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Some Articles that Caught my Eye this Morning 4/7/2019
A Someone once asked me, “How do you reconcile your beliefs with science?” “Simple”, I said: “God created the world (universe) and science is trying to discover what He did.” This article is a summation of all the secular explanations of how the world began. None of them mention God. None hold water. http://www.ncregister.com/blog/astagnaro/in-the-beginning-god-created-the-heavens-and-the-earth These...
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Some Articles in Today’s News 3/29/2019 that Caught my Attention
A biopic of Clare Booth Luce. I realize that most people are not gifted with genius but few in the news can compete with what this woman accomplished in her life time. She exemplified the American dream: starting with “all the cards stacked against her” she managed to “pull herself up by her bootstraps.” Where...
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Are we devolving into two Catholic churches?
As I read the news media – conservative and liberal – Catholic and secular alike – I am coming to the sad conclusion that we are devolving into 2 Catholic churches – liberal versus conservative. I say this because I am seeing a trend that says political party affiliation is a stronger bond than religious...
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A Plea to Catholics for the Physically Handicapped
When I was growing up my brothers and I frequently heard admonitions to be ‘courteous to others’ which meant, for my brothers, lessons on how to be a “gentleman.” My mother frequently reminded my brothers to stand when a woman entered or left a room, to take off their hats indoors, give up their seats...
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Female Sexual Predators
When I was in my twenties, I had never heard the term “female sexual predators,” perhaps because it had not yet been coined. When I met some, I was shocked. I grew up in a small California town of 15,000, founded by Quakers. It had a lot of Christian churches and the bars were outside...