by admin | Dec 18, 2017 | Religion
I grew up Catholic. I was never a very good soldier of Christ. Most kids brought up in a religious family aren’t. We are born sinners, prone to going so far as to lie to our priest as we search in vain for a sin significant enough to warrant a Hail Mary or Our...
by admin | Nov 9, 2015 | Life Lessons, Religion
I’ve had it with religion lately. Now, don’t get all religiousy on me. I am a man of faith, often tremendous faith. Without it, I can guarantee that I wouldn’t have my happily ever after right now. I would still be a lost boy, cast adrift, looking...
by admin | Mar 25, 2013 | Religion
Jorge Bergoglio hit the lottery a couple weeks ago. Imagine what it was like for him. You buy an innocent ticket to the lottery decades ago when you decide to become a priest. Along the way, you hit some scratch-offs, scoring a church and perhaps some of the perks of...
by admin | Aug 7, 2012 | Religion
I started thinking about faith recently. No, not New Orleans Faith, the one whose nose I hooked. As you know, my faith has been shaken several times in my life. People dying on you, being poor, almost dying from a illness… these things can really test your...
by admin | Mar 26, 2012 | Religion
I’m not a big fan of sequels, but they seem to be all around us these days. There are even sequels to really bad movies that themselves, didn’t deserve to be made in the first place. Even Gone With the Wind got a sequel, and as we all know, it never needed...
by admin | Mar 14, 2012 | Religion
I was blissfully unaware until recently that the 10 Commandments have a lot of fine print. Archeologists recently unearthed a second copy of the Commandments, one that was still intact. In a nod to the future computer age, it seems that God chose to back up his files....
by admin | Jan 20, 2012 | Religion
It may be hard to believe, but I was once a good little Catholic boy. In my youth, I would even come home from church and perform Mass. I had a small book that had all the Latin prayers and passages, and I would lay a bathroom towel over the organ bench, make...
by admin | Jan 9, 2012 | Politics, Religion
The Internet is an amazing tool for researchers who know how to find what they are looking for. With the presidential elections beginning to heat up, I thought I should do a little legwork myself to figure out who the players are. I know who Willard and Newton Leroy...
by admin | Oct 6, 2011 | Religion
I have been in purgatory lately. If you’re not familiar with purgatory, you’re obviously not Catholic, Roman Catholic to be exact as there seems to be splinter Catholics out there these days that don’t believe in Paypal Infallibility. Sorry, that...
by admin | Jun 2, 2011 | Religion
I don’t like to keep secrets from my friends. Pretty much, I am an open book when it comes to things that happen in my life. So it’s with a heavy heart that I tell you all that the rapture did indeed come and I was part of it. I know. I find it hard to...
