All those who put their hope in God place their feeble hands in his strong and mighty hand; they let themselves be raised up and set out on a journey. Pope Francis, Ubi et Orbi, Easter Sunday. Our beloved Pope Francis has finished his race. The news release from the Vatican did not tell us the exact time or manner of his death. Even though he was still very weak and ill from the illness that almost took his life earlier... Read more
‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’ Matthew 25:45 I had no intention of writing a blog post this week. I’ve been using these last days of Lent to pray and read Scripture. But if I did not say something about what is happening in our country, I could not take communion. I would not be worthy to enter the church. Satan has given... Read more
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29:2 Markets are melting down all over the globe. Instead of reciting numbers, I’m going to show you a screenshot I took this morning. As my Daddy would have said, “Ain’t that a dandy?” Trump has issued a demand that the fed lower interest rates because he’s destroyed the economy and wants them to bring it back to life for him. The... Read more
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. Sun Tzu Yesterday, Trump unilaterally enacted a list of draconian tariffs that effectively declared economic war on the rest of the world. He set America up as the angry and isolated enemy of just about everybody. Trump’s tariffs circle the globe. He even imposed tariffs on islands off Antarctica that are uninhabited. I don’t know what the penguins on those islands did. Maybe they... Read more
Satanists and Catholics met in what one article described as a “bullhorn-powered war of words” at the Kansas State Capitol last weekend. It ended with the lead satanist punching a Catholic and getting himself arrested. The fracas was the culmination of weeks of back and forth between the governing officials of the state, the Catholic archdiocese and the leaders of The Satanic Grotto. Evidently, The Grotto had obtained a permit to perform a “religious exercise” at the Kansas state capitol.... Read more
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. James 4: 8 Jesus was wholly God and wholly human. He cured the sick, raised the dead and taught us what God is really like. At the same time, he felt the pains of human flesh and experienced the sorrows of human existence. He was God, Who had consented to be fully human, and by becoming human, he consented to feel hunger, loneliness, resentment, fear, sorrow and shame. When... Read more
The Lord has returned our beloved Holy Father to us for a while. Pope Francis returned to his home at the Vatican earlier this week after a long bout with pneumonia. He had several close calls during his illness, including one moment when his doctors considered stopping intervention and letting him die peacefully. It is no small thing for a man of Pope Francis’ age, who does not have both lungs, to survive pneumonia. I followed the news about him... Read more
Elon Musk appears to think he bought the presidency, and Trump seems to agree with him. Musk attends and dominates presidential cabinet meetings. The Attorney General of the United States and evidently the entire Department of Justice seems to be operating as Elon’s private cops and prosecutor. The Commerce Secretary of the United States of America went on national tv and issued an unseemly and probably illegal (if laws were enforced against billionaires) pitch for people to buy stock in... Read more
We have made a terrible mistake. America, that rock of freedom, security and peace on which we all have stood every day of our lives, is shifting and shuddering like a volcano getting ready to blow. We have made a terrible mistake. In two months, we’ve seen the creation of an off-country concentration of camp in El Salvador. This is much like the concentration and slave labor camps such as the infamous Auschwitz that Nazi Germany created in Poland and... Read more
Pope Francis is slowly getting better. I hesitate to write the words, even though they reflect the latest report on the pope’s health, because people his age who are in the throes of medical problems can go sour very quickly. He has demonstrated that several times in this current illness. But for now at least the Holy Father appears to be slowly improving. His breathing has gotten better. He’s “showing an improved blood gas exchange,” which I interpret to mean... Read more
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