Archives for 2016

Yesterday a friend made a very apt comment in reply to one of my Facebook comments. He wrote: But did God mandate that Big Government be the answer to this? As a retired legislator I know put it, speaking from over a decade of experience in office: “Big government, big business, big labor – all […]

I have avoided using the term Obama Derangement Syndrome, except in a couple of Facebook posts. I have avoided using the term because I have previously regarded it as a pejorative term. Sadly, Marco Rubio has finally convinced me that the term is real. Frankly, I have previously, and privately, considered the term to be […]

Last night Chris Rock had an opening monologue that hit hard at the Hollywood powers-that-be. As you may, or may not, know, there have been no black actors nominated for a major Oscar in a couple of years. This has been even when there have been films with black leads who were well-rated critically. This […]

One of the famous sayings by the Ford Motor Company is “Built Ford Tough.” A new campaign is “Drive the Future of Tough.” Unfortunately, my experience with one of the recent models has been anything but “Ford Tough.” If anything, my experience has been Ford Wimpy. I am most definitely a disgruntled customer who has […]

I have a nephew with whom I share what I call Father Ernesto stories. (Well, I also share them with my sister.) I enjoy telling them, particularly because they are all true. They are the funny things that have happened to me while I have been serving as a priest. These are the stories that […]

One of the most interesting sides to the story of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been the obvious deep friendship that there was between the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court and the most liberal Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Each of them has been considered one of the premier practitioners […]

And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying after us.” He […]

“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” – G.K. Chesterton I wrote on this phrase back in 2014, when the conversational climate was not […]