Archives for 4 July 2014

On this July 4th, let me post the video above and the lyrics from one of the songs from Les Misérables. This is the prayer of every parent who has a son or daughter in the Armed Forces. I was such a son once, drafted during Viet Nam. I have a daughter and a son-in-law […]

I found myself looking at fasting rules in the United States of America for Roman Catholics. I found myself startled at the changes in their fasting rules since the 1940’s. Having been raised as a Roman Catholic, I know that we were never supposed to eat meat on Fridays and that we were supposed to […]