Month: September 2013

Pope Francis Moves Towards Engagement

. Will the conservative American Bishops follow the Bishop of Rome in his teachings? It seems to me Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York has a belly ache. Republicans of the Catholic faith Paul Ryan and Rick Santorum will need a...

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This Doesn’t Seem Right

I wonder what Jack Abramoff thinks about Tom DeLay winning his appeal of his 2010 conviction for money laundering. No one can say that The Hammer wasn’t inconvenienced during all this legal wrangling, nor can one deny that...

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Unimaginable

Unimaginable. I kept hearing that word come out of the mouth of the host of a show I was watching on the History channel (one I won’t name) with my son yesterday. The show was one of those filler shows, as I call them. Not...

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Maybe It’s Not Quite Nihilism

I wish I felt comfortable saying, “No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of,” but their blithe willingness to mess with the debt ceiling and our credit rating concerns me. There are...

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Occupy – A Positive Postscript

After Occupy Keep the dream alive. There’s something each of us can do to help. Everything we do matters, no matter how small. Those who dismiss these moments because of their flaws need to look harder at what joy and hope...

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