My Catholic Life

  Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build. Unless the Lord guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch Ps 127:1 I don’t follow all of the Catholic bloggers. There are far too many. I am connected to a handful of bloggers, and through that connection am, at times, aware of when a blogger brouhaha has commenced. Usually what happens is that the Pope does something for which he is sharply and immediately criticized by one group, then vehemently defended by another. The comboxes and Facebook comments start to explode. Then it is on like Donkey Kong in a Catholic Cage fight of epic proportion.   Such was the case this past week and boom went the word warriors. Look, I get it. I am a writer, albeit a writer of none renown, my blogs only get like 30 views. But still a writer. We love words and we know how to use them. One of our most satisfying relationships is with our thesaurus. Which is why, by the way, another writer cannot say to me that they w...

  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...

Wrote another guest blog for Vericast. Give it a read and leave a comment. Take a look at what the Vericast website has to offer. Maybe consider a gold membership for $5/month to get the extras. http://www.vericast.net/blog/2014/03/15/holy-spirit-factor/

Another guest blog I wrote for vericast.net commenting on the Pope's video greeting to Pentecostal Conference. http://www.vericast.net/blog/2014/02/26/brother-brother/

This is my most recent post as a guest contributor for Vericast. http://www.vericast.net/blog/2014/02/09/satans-slight-hand/ Be sure and leave your comments and to check out the Vericast website while you are there.

I have graciously been asked to share some blogs as a guest contributor on the Vericast Network at vericast.net. Here are the links to those guest blogs if anyone would like to read them. Leave a comment if you would like to. While you are there check out some of the other content on Vericast. http://www.vericast.net/blog/2013/11/07/authority-essentials/ http://www.vericast.net/blog/2013/11/13/knowing-right-fight/ http://www.vericast.net/blog/2013/11/20/hope-disappoint/ http://www.vericast.net/blog/2013/12/06/showing-catholic/ http://www.vericast.net/blog/2014/01/29/arianism/

Everybody’s talking at me, jive talking, telling me lies. A ball of confusion, that's what the world is today, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Ok, somebody has got to give me some props for that one. I don’t know if you noticed but I managed to quote three songs and Shakespeare in my first two sentences. Of course, a lot of the youngsters might not recognize the lyrics of Nilssen, The Bee Gees and The Temptations. My witty banter aside the point is baby, baby it’s a wild world and a lot of nice things turn bad out there but just remember there's a lot of bad and beware. As may be apparent by some of my most recent posts, I have been quite distressed by what seems to be an overly harsh, and often defamatory, critical view of our Pope. So a-Googling I went over the last couple of days and I have come across evidence of many, who consider themselves good Catholics, that advocate not only criticism, but resistance and disobedience, to our dear Holy Father. They ...