How can we teach others and expect them to follow if we don't follow the rules ourselves?
Category: Current Affairs
What’s Done in the Dark
I have to admit I’m pretty tired of this whole coronavirus thing. I don’t like being told where and when I can go places, which direction to go down the aisle at the grocery store, and where I need to sit at Mass. I am so over this. His slaves said to him, ‘Do you …
Listen to the Small Voice
As if God hasn’t given us enough to deal with by letting this corona virus pandemic continue, now He has to throw in this whole racial unrest thing in the middle of it. Riots, looting, arson, attacks against police officers are becoming all to commonplace. And yes, I have to wonder if this is just …
God is in Control
So in my last post, I sort of veered off course. I was going to talk about the message from the Gospel reading for that Sunday and how it is kind of appropriate for the times we are living in, but I got sidetracked. I guess the Holy Spirit decided to take over my fingers. …
Their Eyes Were Opened
Today is the Third Sunday of Easter. We are almost into our third month of the coronavirus pandemic. we have lived through 40 days of Lent without being able to go into our churches, without being able to celebrate Mass and even more importantly, without being able to receive the Body and Blood of our …
With God All Things Are Possible
In these troubled times, I have noticed I have begun looking at things a little differently than I used to. I have begun looking at how God is at work in our lives and in those around us. I wonder how many people also see this? When you watch the news, whether it is the …
Be Not Afraid
I am not sure we are walking through the valley of the shadow of death or not, but these are certainly scary times. Every day the news seems to get worse, the number of people infected with the coronavirus rises, the number of deaths goes up and the predictions of how many possible deaths are …
Why Not You
Over there to the right is my other blog. You know the one that I focus on other things besides just Catholic type issues. I wrote a post earlier this week called "How about us?" where I talked about a Facebook post about the homeless problem in my town. In a nutshell, several people thought …
Whose Side Are You On
It's time for the Catholic Church to reunite. As St. Paul asked the Corinthians "Is Christ divided?"
To whom shall we go
This clergy abuse scandal rearing its ugly head again is really messing me up. I have finally become somewhat comfortable with being Catholic again, one of the reasons I left the church was the Boston scandal, and now we have another one. In my last post, I talked about how I am going to deal …
The Wayward Catholic 