Tom Faranda's Folly

UPDATE: I initially posted he died 202 years ago! So I don't know how to count … Thanks to MR for straightening me out. https://youtu.be/kg4SROilMAs?si=2ERk-0E3f8hWFTle     

Thanks to our great buddy, Dr. PN who picked up that Brigid had a basal cell  on her face while we were having dinner together the last Wednesday in March. We owe PN and his beautiful wife DN dinner and drinks for quite awhile. Brigid had the surgery done Tuesday about noon and home by … Read more

Amusing. Of course many/most of the demonstrators at Columbia are not students; just the usual woke / leftist protestors against anything except communism and free drugs.  As pro-Palestine groups continued to gather on campus following the establishment of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, University protestors clarified that they only want “Death to America” after America is … Read more

So 50% of men being ordained are under 31 years old.

He uses bad language and gets suspended? Schools would be pretty empty if they suspended everyone who uses bad language while singing a rap song. This is so absurd. The school will lose. A junior at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua has sued the school district over its decision to issue him a three-day … Read more

The strong arm of the law works a little differently in the Lone Star State, where asking for mild salsa is grounds for arrest (and for a good whuppin’). Here are ten crimes that you can actually be executed for in the great State of Texas There you have it – the law of the … Read more

7 and a half years. Meanwhile nine prolife demonstrators in jail now for walking into two abortion clinics, sitting on the floor and praying the rosary / singing hymns. That's all – no molotov cocktails or even otherwise talking. Their sentence – one year for violating the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act … Read more

Sent around by Holy Name office. Our parish will hold a Memorial Mass for our dear former pastor, Fr. Mike, this Friday, April 12, at 7:00 PM in the main Church. Please open the link below as we are requesting an RSVP to a social gathering in celebration of Fr. Mike's life following the Mass. … Read more

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