Archives for 2017

Yesterday, I attended a very good class by a theologian. There were 8 pastors present, and we represented a variety of backgrounds, from me being the only “liturgical” person, and most definitely the only one calling himself a priest to African Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, independent Pentecostal, Disciples of Christ, etc. The nine of us have formed […]

https://olashirt.com/5lc74m531r I have posted before about the Lesser of Two Evils. In December of 2016, I spoke of the Catholic Doctrine of Double Effect as a better formulation for Christians of the doctrine of the Lesser of Two Evils, in a post called, “Ethics and Expediency.” What most of us do not realize is that, in […]

Fake news, Faulty news, Vetted news. What is the difference between the three? The first one is easy. Fake news is just that. It is a news story that is made up. It is not true. But, here is the problem. Fake news are sometimes deliberately written for humor purposes. In other words, there may […]

Clonazepam Withdrawal Symptoms “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are […]

Father Francis John Patrick Mulcahy died yesterday. He was not a real character. He was a character in MASH a TV series that ran over a decade, and made all of us think about what war was really about, the damage that it does to all involved, and what it means to be a priest […]