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An appointment to a committee. If this isn’t hate speech, nothing is. VA GOV. APPOINTS BIGOT August 26, 2019 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s appointment of an anti-Catholic bigot to a state council on women’s issues: Gail Gordon Donegan is a local political activist. She is also a vicious…

Biden strikes again. 12 seconds long.  

Of course the blog has always been all about me – hence the name Tom Faranda’s Folly. Anyway I posted this Health Update: Knee surgery tomorrow on August 13th and did have the surgery – now nine days ago. Here’s why – look at the bow on my left leg. There was no cartilage padding…

Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, in August, 1941. Just hit the link. Unable to bear this, Fr. Kolbe stepped silently forward, took off his cap, and stood before the commandant and said, 'I am a Catholic priest. Let me take his…

UPDATE: Surgery scheduled for 11:30AM tomorrow Yup. A partial left knee replacement – the medial compartment (the inner aspect of the knee). It’s been pending for a long time – had meniscus surgery in 2004 and been taking the hyaluronic acid shots for the last two and a half years. And it helped greatly –…

One of the first documented converts, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 16. 13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14 One of those listening was…

Mostly by Brigid, the comedienne – Here is the artist …

A questionable strategy… Confronted by the infinite holiness of God, Peterson felt the guilt and shame of his sins washing over him, realizing with a sense of dread how he had rejected Christ and willfully rebelled against his Creator. But then, Peterson got an idea. He quickly began explaining to God just how bad the…

Yes one of my heroes – I met her last November at a talk she gave at Fairfield University. Not afraid to speak out on any of the crucial life issues – but has been fighting the death penalty and counseling victims families and those on death row since 1982. If you go here at…

Yes, always subtract seven years is one of my mottoes to live by. Unfortunately it doesn’t work anymore. Here is absolutely conclusive proof. Myself with Tim at his graduation back in May, when I realized I need to start ironing my face. That’s me on the right … OMG! Never take yourself too seriously –…