I am writing this the day after Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast leaving a path of destruction, especially in the mid-Atlantic area. While I had some heavy rain and powerful wind gusts here, for the most part it seems we made it through okay. As I watched the wind buffet the trees, wondering if any …
Month: October 2012
Obama and the Planned Parenthood Lie
In Tuesday's debate our President claimed that millions of women relied on Planned Parenthood for mammograms. Of course there isn't one Planned parenthood clinic which is licensed to have a mammogram machine. As pointed out in this article on CatholicOnline the President has lied and they give two explanations as to why. Either we must accept that the …
Time For Some Hard Thinking
The other day on my Facebook page, The Wayward Catholic, I posted a chart comparing Barack Obama's views on issues as opposed to Catholicism's views. There are thirteen items on the list. Reading it, you have to wonder how any Catholic would vote for him. He accepts all the tenets of Communism and Socialism, even though his supporters do their best to …
Are You Like Peter
How many of us are like Peter, denying Jesus even though we claim we won't? Do we deny that we know him? Do we try to distance ourselves from him? I would wager any of us do. October 11, 2012, began "The Year of Faith"> The upcoming Year of Faith declared by Pope Benedict XVI is a “summons …
Joe Biden: I’m Practicing
Joe Biden claims he is a "practicing Catholic" and that his religion "defines who I am". So does he keep practicing until he gets it right? I don't claim to be an expert on Catholicism or any religion for that matter, but let me give you what Biden said during the VP debate: “My religion …
Responsibility
In my last post I talked about choices. We all make choices, but that is only have the battle, because each choice has a consequence, a result. When we make bad choices, we get bad results. When we make good choices, we get good results. But what really matters is how we handle the consequences, do we …
Choices
One of the major themes I think about in my life is choices. We all make choices in our lives and we have to live with the consequences of these choices. Some of us make good choices, some of us make bad choices. some a combination of both. When I came back to God, okay I …
Things Happen
How do we know what God is trying to tell us? I have heard He is always with us always guiding us and all we have to do is listen. But how do we know what He is trying to tell us? Sure sometimes it is easy. There have been a few times in the past …
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