It’s called adultery, maybe because it’s committed mostly by adults who find it easy because contraceptives are ready to hand, but the young start early, and there is nothing more discouraging than a beautiful young lady bent on a career of free sex.  What can parents do about it?

You start early.  She has to learn the Judeo-Christian culture before she learns the words to some of these promiscuous songs.  A before B, plain song before a band of guitars and drums.  And good clean friends are important.  For everybody.

Does being old-fashioned bother you?  Some of those oldsters know the paths through the woods.  They knew the way.

I acknowledge that Donald Trump has done wrong, even sinned, but I feel the sufferings of the Redeemer enable him to save his soul.  I dreamed last night that EMT’s were working on a drowning man just pulled from a pool, and the lifeguard who pulled him out was approaching.  He had the flowing hair of Donald Trump.  The EMT’s let him apply the usual mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and he saved the man who went by the name USA.

The dream was to me somewhat symbolic, but it helped me understand what has transpired in this country within the past twelve months.  I don’t think everybody sees this. 

Be it as it may, I don’t question the hand of God in guiding this country.  We’ve done wrong, but I hope those who pray are enough to be heard.

He was so assured of his salvation that he renounced all riches and became the most famous saint of the Middle Ages.  Unlike Martin Luther, he had few doubts about getting into heaven.  His confrontation with the world was pure joy.  His name was Francesco Bernardone, known to us as St. Francis of Assisi.

He practiced severe asceticism, but forbade it to his followers, not wanting to inflict it on others.  He is said to have made friends with a wolf, and the birds sang with him.  To him, all Nature sang the praises of its Creator, and he composed The Canticle of the Sun.

I have asked him for advice, as I believe the Communion of Saints warrants it, even for a sinner like me.  The answer I got was most satisfactory.  I invite you to do the same.

While we in the Catholic Church have endured a grave sin (pedophilia) we have also been granted a great satisfaction, that of seeing a country lifted from the shame of abortion as a national pastime.  People of real moral stature accomplished the latter, and gave our consciences some peace.

There are many hidden knights and damsels who pray and live upright lives in this country, and no doubt they have been heard.  They walk among us unrecognized, because you don’t let the world know that you pray.

Do you endure the spiritual (and mental) challenge of the rosary?  Or do you quietly withdraw and address God, the Father, or Jesus Christ?  Either way, you are a true human being.

John was a practicing lawyer, but he spent time culled from his practice to fight the evils of abortion.  His heroic efforts were rewarded last Friday, when the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution did not support that sin.

Also vindicated was Justice Clarence Thomas whom the vituperative Left had maligned for his steady conscientiousness.  There were many heroes who felt the nation’s yoke of abortion, and risked life and success to lift it.  May God grant them their eternal rewards, unrecognized in the here and now.