family news

Te sun is out and the floods have passed.

Time to do the wash (and hopefully hang it out in the sunshine instead of in the living room).

I'd comment on the news, but it is nothing new, except the "fake news" at the fakenews sites now is turning out to have some truth in it.

Sigh.

here, the "lay group of  Catholics", on instruction from the bishops (lead by Cardinal Tagle, who is running for pope), are protesting "extra judicial killings".

Well, that is the equivalent of saying you are for world peace: a meaningless feel good exercize.



so why don't the bishops order their minions to protest politicians who take bribes?

how about Bishops refusing to give big Catholic funerals to crooked politician under indictment for ordering a hit on his rival that killed five people including our nephew?


It's the equivalent of Hollywood pretending they didn't know about their perverts: Everyone knows, but pretends they don't.

One bishop in the US is in tweettrouble for refusing to give a Catholic burial to non repentant people, including those in gay marriages. But even in the US it is okay to give a huge catholic burial to pro abortion, unrepentant philanderer Ted Kennedy.

yes, I am feeling snarky today.

yes there are abuses and even crooked cops here (/sarcasm) but when there are torture hazing deaths at a Catholic university scandal, one does think the bishops need to teach Thou shalt not kill to their own before they join the deep state types whose real aim is to remove Duterte before he arrests more crooked politicians

yes I am still a Catholic: we catholic figure the twelve apostles included a traitor who took bribes, and eleven who ran away when things got rough, so we don't expect a lot from our bishops...
our sacraments don't depend on the holiness of the priests and biships: it is not subjective but an objective reality: sort of like medicine: Penicillin still works even though the doctor is schtupping all the nurses and overbilling.