My Catholic Life

I spend a little time on my blog, now and then, defending the Pope. Me and the Pope are pretty tight. There have been rumors out there of the Pope calling people up on the phone. The most recent one being that he called a woman to tell her that she could receive communion despite a second marriage issue. People are rockin’ and rollin’ about that one. I’ll ask him about it the next time he calls me. The Pope calls me all of the time. We just shoot the breeze. Sometimes he asks for my opinion on doctrine and dogma and stuff like that. Mostly I just tell him “Holy Father, keep your chin up. There are people on your side. Dude, we’re watching your six, we got your back” This past Friday was my birthday. I was born in 1958. That is the same year that Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Pope John XXIII was elected. There are some people who say that there weren’t any more real Popes after 1958. Others say that there have been Popes but that they have all been heretics or if not heretics they haven’...

  Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. Who doesn’t like Star Trek? Admit it, you know you do. The cheesy little series that could. With only 79 original episodes it managed to spawn a cult following, several spin-off series, about a dozen films and even a language. The original series debuted in 1966, ran through 1969 and for almost 50 years the franchise has attracted fans of every generation. It sort of defies logic. Fascinating. Along with the many voyages of the Starship Enterprise and crew, boldly going where no man has gone before, is the interesting personal journey of Mr. Spock. Half Vulcan and half human, Spock denies his human side in favor of the Vulcan. The Vulcan side is all logic all of the time, dependent on empirical evidence, science and the logical response. As time goes on he bring...