Low Sunday or Divine Mercy Sunday, which do you prefer? Being the mean evil divisive Trad that I am I choose Low Sunday every time. In fact my pre 1950 calendar that I make every year will always show the first Sunday after Easter as Low Sunday and not Divine…
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Sister Ester and the footwashing conscription
Back in 1967 I was in 8th grade, I was also an altar boy. Being in Catholic school in those days with real nuns was kind of like being in the army. You never volunteered for anything. Sister would volunteer you instead. These were the old style spit and polish…
Some people are never satisfied
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time” – John Lydgate No one knows this better than president Trump. My neighborhood in this Chicago…
Look up in the sky, its a bird, its a plane, no…………..its government meddling
I remember so vividly when I was a kid. Some days the sky was a deep blue with literally no clouds at all. Just miles and miles of uninterrupted blue. Fat chance seeing that today. Many times the sky is literally filled to the brim with a sea of ugly…
Vatican under new management
In a startling turn of events it is learned that Pope Leo will follow the lead of his predecessor Benedict and will resign from the Chair of St Peter effective on Spy Wednesday April 1, 2026. The holy father gave the reasons for his early retirement as repentance for his…
One size does no fit all
I have fallen for this more times than I can remember. I order cloths that are supposed to be one size fits all from Amazon and I find sleeves too long on shirts, or waist size too small for my waist (its not me, its the pants……….HONEST!). In most things…
The idiots are in charge
Back in the 1980s Northwestern University sponsored what was called the Chicagoland cage Classic. The was a competition to see who was top dog of the university Basketball teams locally in, or around the city of Chicago. The teams involved were DePaul, Northwestern, Loyola, and Bradly university. I was working…
The churches unsung hero, the parish priest of the last century
One of my favorite scenes from my favorite movie “Catholics” is where the young traditional monk schools Fr. Kinsilla the young punk from the Vatican on the duties of a priest. Its all about doing your duty. “The people don’t want your social Justice they want you to Baptiste them,…
Bobby Prevost and the 10 suggestions
Our old friend Cardinal Jim Shu of the Catholic church of the peoples republic of China has just announced that Pope Leo plans to issue a revised 10 commandments later this spring. In keeping with the synodal church model of his predecessor Francis, Leo wants to expose us to a…
Just how many more signs do you need?
There is an old joke. A huge flood had driven a women to the roof of her house. She prays to God to save her and is positive he will answer. A neighbor in a row boat comes up. He invites her in his boat to save her. She refuses…