A thought on the issue
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live…” I think that must happen in the lives of the thousands upon thousands of Catholic priests who must live with the horrible accusations of sexually abusing small children. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Impeachment? When?
Yesterday in history is never really yesterday. Consider for example, the insightful wisdom of Plato, born long ago in 428 BC: “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they must have something to say.” (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Will Hillary Become Reverend Hillary?
It’s hard to believe that the current President of the US is as ignorant and lying as he really is. Consider: when the first news came that Hillary Clinton might take up the Christian Ministry, he told a group of evangelicals not to worry because she has nothing to back it up. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Jody Mitic and What He Endured
It’s now roughly 140 years since, in England, a poem was written called Invictus – Latin for undefeated – by William Henley who, at age 12, had contracted bone tuberculous which led physicians, a few years later, to amputate his foot. He was 17. Henley’s poem still lives, often quoted, because of its theme of courage, faith and determination in the face of serious handicap. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Does celibacy create concern?
It’s now well beyond a week since Paul Shanley, a former American Catholic priest in Boston, ended a long imprisonment for sexual exploitation which he’d introduced to his Catholic prey around Boston. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)
Why Is The Abuse So Common?
Years ago, Norman Cousins said something that applies to one of the most painful tragedies of our era: “Death is not the greatest loss in life… The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live…” It came to me a day or so after I read, as you probably did, that the right hand advisor of Pope Francis, Cardinal George Pell, will be tried for pedophilia – sexual abuse of boys by men. (Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)