“Exposing the Unseriousness of Elite Irreligion”
Ha! This is actually a solicitation from the interfaith magazine First Things (proud to say Farandaville – a charter subscriber) asking for a donation. But I liked the comments by the person promoting it – they are below the link. When I was in seventh grade, a girl at my New York private school told … Read more
Catholic Church recognizes and affirms 71st miracle at Lourdes
I've been told by people who know a lot more about Lourdes than I do, who – lived there – worked there – studied there – that there are many more healings than are ultimately affirmed as miracles. The reason – people don't want the onerous process they need to go through for the Church … Read more
WSJ: “Luigi Mangione’s Senate Explainers. Warren and Sanders tell us why killing CEOs is understandable.”
The Progressive wing of the Democrat Party. Long may they flounder. Here's another post I put up yesterday WSJ: "Is Murdering Healthcare CEO's Justified? on this point. If you think sympathy for the devil in Luigi Mangione is confined to the fever swamps of Reddit, consider comments by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Did she mean a … Read more
Brigid … Birthday Girl!!
Pictures from August, 2022 at the Margaret Ferrara wedding in France! and
WSJ: “Is Murdering Healthcare CEO’s Justified?”
No surprise that there would be jubilation over the assassination in some corners of social media. Leftists on social media blame the wrong culprit for healthcare dysfunction. America’s social-media culture is often debased, but it reached a new low this week with the online jubilation over the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The moral … Read more
A physician writes about the healthcare insurance morass.
Good essay – not too long – in the NY Times. "What Doctors Like Me Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger" I rushed around the patient as he lay motionless with his eyes closed in the emergency room. He was pale and sweaty, his T-shirt stained with vomit. You didn’t have to be a health-care … Read more
WSJ: “Assad Leaves Syria as Rebels Take Damascus”
Wow. Double wow. It appears that the now former President Bashar Al-Assad has gone to Russia. The rebel group seems to be backed by Turkey. This from ABC. The approaching fighters are led by the most powerful insurgent group in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, along with an umbrella group of Turkish-backed Syrian militias … Read more
“Lux Perpetua” read by Brigid
The author is George Mackay Brown, a dramatist and poet, "widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century." Mackay was a convert to Catholicism and had a tough life. He died in 1996. Brigid choose the artwork. I've put the words below the poem. The very short video starts halfway … Read more