Dear All, I have never made any secret of my position on gun control: the more the merrier! Because this is a currently hot-button issue in the world of politics, I want to use it as a ‘tip of an iceberg’ topic with which to explore the oddity that is Catholic Christian morality. Along the way, I will also have to talk about the oddity that is the American political system.
Dear All, Before some politician tells us that we should thank him for getting things ‘back to normal’, I want to take a few hundred words to think about what we have learned about our old normal and what we might consider before we return to it. Let us begin with what we have learned in this season of pandemic.
Dear All, The readings for Sunday III in Lent are soooooo full of so many things that I am taking the expedient of sharing some thoughts with you about the first reading – The Ten Commandments – in this forum.