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...

I like music. I am sure that if you have read some of my other blogs, you might have picked up on that. I’ve got the music in me. I heat up, I cool down, I’ve got words in my head so I say them. Music lifts me up, it often calms me, it inspires me. Many of my memories are underscored with certain songs. As you can tell by how I write, I can often find a spiritual meaning in even a rock and roll song. The trouble is that I don’t sing very well. Children cry and dogs howl, it isn’t pretty. I do sing when I am by myself…who doesn’t. I even got a speeding ticket once because I was so into singing the song on the radio that I forgot to watch my lead foot. I would love to be able to sing for people, especially praise music and I would see it as such a wonderful gift to be able to praise God in song in a beautiful voice. It would also be nice to be able to write songs. But this is not my gift. Many years ago I went to a concert of a popular contemporary Christian singer. The music was...

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. They say that actions speak louder than words. Seeing is believing and what you see is what you get. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Axioms of self evident truth. In today’s world that paradigm just may be shifting. We now have the ability to disseminate words at lightening speed, words that have the power to change the way we see the picture, to alter our perception of the action. In today’s world, in the words of Mark Twain, “a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Words can set up smoke screens to obscure and dull the edges of focus. Words can misdirect us away from the actions. Words can interpret the seeing and thus change the believing. Words become rhetoric and rhetoric is meant to influence and persuade. Sometimes that influence and persuasion, whether deliberately intended or not, can indeed hurt us. rhet·o·ric [réttərik] n 1. persuasive sp...

Now you know I am going to take the recent controversy concerning the TLM and frame it with some 60’s songs because that is just how I roll. There's something happening here. But what it is ain't exactly clear…I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look - what's going down? So, what’s going down? It seems that Rorate Caeli keeps breaking news trying to uncover some TLM-gate type of conspiracy. It also seems that they are getting their information from leaked private communications. A very reliable but anonymous source according to them. Move over Woodward and Bernstein there’s some new kids in town with a Deep Throat source of their own. Paranoia strikes deep…Into your life it will creep…It starts when you're always afraid… Step out of line, the men come and take you away In many traditionalist blogs there seems to be a decided point of view, perspective, dare I say out and out bias fostering a certain fear and mistrus...