Tom Faranda's Folly

Average shortstop, great General Manager, and by all accounts a great person. How he built the "core four".  

Now of course St. Teresa of Calcutta. The Jesuit publication America has re-posted a # of features from past issues about her – just go here – What was so extraordinary about this “saint of the gutters?” How could someone revered as a saint not feel God’s presence for long periods of her life? Mother … Read more

Wow an unsupported "hike" that wiped out both the supported and unsupported records. McConaughy is a former Boston College cross country and track runner. he's in his mid-20's now and averaged 48 miles a day. Joe ‘Stringbean’ McConaughy, a well-known speed hiker, set a new record on the Appalachian Trail today. He hiked the 2,190-mile … Read more

Thanks to Ed Mechmann for sending this around. "Life from Death." “I think it is a turn from desperation to great hope and transformative hope going forward,” Art Bennett, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, told CNA of a new free medical clinic set to open in November, replacing a … Read more

Our three chinchillas also applaud and whistle!  

Actually her Feast was yesterday, the 29th, along with two other English women martyrs. Below is something I posted about her last October 26th. She was married, with three children. And she must have been awfully tough. She lived in York and was executed there. Yesterday was the feast of the English martyrs, killed between … Read more

Pathetic. Trump agrees to it and promotes it. Ohh and it started in the Obama Administration. From NPR, May, 2016: Obama also has put the U.S. on course to spend around $1 trillion on upgrading its nuclear arsenal over the next three decades I'm not a pacifist but this is an absurdity. Immoral weapons which … Read more

At Columbus Circle; maybe replace Christopher Columbus with Che Guevara?  

This from the Telegraph (UK) which doesn't require registration – In a special event at the Edinburgh International Television Festival to mark 60 years of the Natural History Unit at BBC Studios, Sir David, 91, said: "I spend a lot of time wringing my hands and saying how dreadful it is, and how this forest … Read more

The first canonized Saint of the Western Hemisphere and Patron of Peru, the Philippines, and indigent people. Brigid and Joe were in Peru at this time last year.  The link takes you to her wiki entry – Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), was a member of the Third Order … Read more