LMU is big on religion, just as long as it’s NOT Catholicism.
Lost My Understanding ‘LMU holds workshop…between Muslims and Jews’ 2024/09/06

is there a death row ministry for San Quentin? I’d sign up for that because it would be cool to go inside the prison where few innocent people have been. as long as the bad hombres are kept locked up, I could visit and talk to them about what’s going on in the world that they’re missing.
San Quentin ‘Churches worth driving to St. Sebastian, Greenbrae’ 2024/09/06

It’s “You think you’re punny,” unless you intended the errors. I’ve been listening to Patrick Madrid too much. It’s rubbed off. Now I’m going to hibernate for the rest of the night. Maybe I’ll wake up normal.
Ursa Major turned Minor ‘Sacramento usurps local and parental control over libraries’ 2024/09/06

The headline read “San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone receives the red hat”…
…then I woke up. Back to the real world… *sigh*…
MrBill ‘Will Pope Francis finally choose Archbishop Gomez as cardinal?’ 2024/09/07

There is no way in hell I would move my family from New England to the putrid hellhole of San Francisco, not even for the $200k salary. SF is a city in decline, and not a good environment in which to raise children. I believe he will regret this career move.
decline ‘SF new schools man from Portsmouth Abbey’ 2024/09/07

Joseph Ratzinger said it best and said it first in 1958: the modern Church is a Church made up of pagans who still think themselves Christian.
pagans ‘Judge blocks Biden mandate on gender surgery’ 2024/09/07

Romulus, Thank you for saving us the trouble of sending massive amounts of “incoming cannon fire.” But may I suggest that you spend a little more time studying the history of the Civil War? I can recommend several books in my library if you want some references. It was all about slavery and its effects on the economy of the South.
Bob One ‘San Francisco will purify 98 statues’ 2024/09/07

Some wealthy relatives of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, announced they will hold a big fundraiser in Woodside, CA, near SF, for Donald Trump, on Sept. 13th. Trump himself will be there.
SF has become a “Tenderloin” gutter ‘One scene of Calcutta in SF….’ 2024/09/08

This is disingenuous. Servite issues laptop computers to all students, and those computers are used every day, all day long in classrooms instead of textbooks and written notes. Servite is not cutting down on screen time by prohibiting cell phones.
virtuous Servite ‘Servite High says no more cel phones’ 2024/09/08

During that time, long ago we had about six priests living in the rectory, a full schedule of always-packed weekend Masses, a deacon (transitional deacon) assigned to serve his final year in the seminary, and a full Catholic parish school. The once-thriving parish school was sold in 1975, when all the teaching nuns finally abandoned it. The rectory dwindled to one priest – and then, visiting priests – and now, a priest from a nearby town comes for two weekend Masses.
Reply to Deacon Anderson ‘Churches worth driving to St. Sebastian, Greenbrae’ 2024/09/08

Unlike phones, laptops connect to a monitored WiFi network. If there were any content that needed to be prevented from view (and even public schools do it), Servite would do it, especially since they issue them. Phones connect to a data network plus text, which ruins that ability to control what students can see.
Schools control tech ‘Servite High says no more cel phones’ 2024/09/09

My eyes would have been dry. It’s hard to get to me.
my eyes ‘$50 million a year of Conrad Hilton money still going to nuns’ 2024/09/10

There has always been climate change and there will always be climate change. We are either in a interglacial period (warmer weather, tropical) or a glacial period (colder temperatures, ice ages)Doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing – just nature doing what it knows best.
Suzy ‘Loyola Marymount kicks off school year with climate conference’ 2024/09/10

The Al Smith Dinner should no longer include the presidential candidates. Politics has become too dirty in our day. If I were a candidate, I would skip the event. Show everyone there up by volunteering at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter that same night.
soup kitchen ‘Jim Gaffigan hosts Al Smith Dinner on Oct. 17’ 2024/09/11

agents of evil: Excellent comments about last night’s debate. They never once fact-checked the Harris lies during the debate. ABC and Disney who owns them are pure evil. Boycott Disney.
Restrainer ‘In case you believed the ABC moderator on born-alive abortions’ 2024/09/11