Tom Faranda's Folly

McCarthy was raised on a farm in a large Catholic family.  

Further proof: women are smarter then men.  

Miguel Pro was a young Mexican priest who was executed by the anti-Catholic Mexican government on trumped up charges in 1927. The picture(s) of his execution – see below -were circulated by the government in an effort to intimidate people (had the opposite effect). "We ought to speak, shout out against injustices, with confidence and … Read more

This is from the Catholic League – they send it around every St. Pat's Day. The heroics of St. Patrick are not appreciated as much as they should be. He is the first person in history to publicly condemn slavery, and one of the first leaders to champion the cause of equal rights.   There … Read more

This is a pretty good article that takes maybe five minutes to read (but with lots of links to follow up on). In a word, fight it with ideas and free speech, not by trying the CRT tactic of censoring people who oppose their ideas. A new orthodoxy has taken over our educational institutions with … Read more

UPDATE: Good Movie – Harriet – free on amazon prime. We watched it Sunday night. The incredibly talented  Cynthia Erivo who also wrote and sang the theme song, played Tubman. Today is the 108th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman who was an escaped slave, made multiple trips back south to lead a total … Read more

UPDATE: Here is a link to the Mass held in the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baghdad. https://youtu.be/F6VvBTuFkOw Calling for peaceful coexistence and fraternity.

Whew. Video below and here's more. We could use a dose of this from our own Catholic Episcopacy (dream on Tom).  Catholic nun saves young demonstrators "The action of the nun and the response of the police who, upon seeing the nun's plea, stopped, surprised many of us. Sister Ann Nu Thawng is today a … Read more

Haha. I follow the author of this brief essay (Simcha Fisher, who has 10 children and I think is a convert from Judaism) a little bit – I get her few times a week emails. I think her writing ranges from outstanding to mediocre (like mine) but this is pretty good. This is just how … Read more

Comment from three weeks ago, which didn’t make the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, etc, etc. Doesn’t fit their narrative. The pandemic “forced us to confront two unavoidable dimensions of human existence: sickness and death,” Pope Francis said. “In doing so, it reminded us of the value of life, of every individual human life … Read more