Pithless Thoughts does it again! I have people just like the apocryphal subdeacon in my mission church. They are both cradle and convert. At best, they are an annoyance in that they go around quoting obscure practices and, yes, canons and councils with little understanding of canon law, its development, and its commentaries. Worse, they […]
News media and bad news
“Surely somewhere in the world there are some good news. Can you not buy a newspaper that tells us some good news?” — The Rabbi in Fiddler On The Roof Complaints about the news media have been around for a long time. There are even some sayings about the news media that have made it […]
Denial of communion and war
Some of you are bristling already at the title of this post, but I urge you to read on, you might be surprised. The last post on this subject was way back on 14 April, so some of you have probably forgotten that I said that we needed to go on with some more discussion […]
OrthoCuban and granddaughter
For those of you wondering why OrthoCuban has been a little irregular in his posting lately, see the photograph at the right. Yes, that is OrthoCuban with our family’s newest grandchild. She was just baptized this past Sunday. I would think about posting something on the blog via my laptop, then I would look at […]
Earthquake in Papua New Guinea
A 6.3 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea yesterday morning. This continues the string of earthquakes that have been hitting populated areas on a regular basis for the past several months. The volcano in Iceland continues to spew ash and lava, grounding nearly 20,000 flights in Europe and making it necessary for the President to cancel […]
For soccer moms
Grandbaby gets baptized in a few hours. Hmm, I guess that means no posting today either. GRIN.
Grandbaby road trip
Just made it in to North Carolina today. Tomorrow our youngest grandchild is being baptized. Yep, I get to baptize our grandchild. Will try to post something tomorrow.
Memories
This for the friends we had of old Friends for a lifetime’s love and cheer. This for the friends who come no more Who cannot be among us here. We’ll not forget, while we’re alive, These hollowed dead, these deeds of fame. Where they have gone, we will follow soon Into the darkness and the […]
Report on East Anglia University climate research panel
As you know, the news media can exaggerate news reports or misunderstand them. Nevertheless, most of the times they have it basically correct. I am delaying my postings on denying communion to those who actively and directly are involved in abortion for this news flash from London. As you may remember, the climate scientists from […]
Some notes on denial of communion to anti-life people
Before I go on in my discussion of the denial of communion to anti-life people, I need to answer some very good questions that came up that I would like to answer: More on your topic — where does it end? How about the justices who wrote Roe v. Wade? The Presidents who nominated them, […]
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