This story about Speaker Mike’s “refusal to step down” is cited by Sun-Tmes’ Golab, McKinney, and Korecki 7/26 as why daughter Lisa decided not to go for governor.

She would ask him to do that, being a modern-day Goneril or Regan, take your pick, making Mike a modern-day King Lear. The ungratitude is appalling.

I would like Sun-Times and Catholic preachers to join forces. Sun-Times would go lightly on its vigorous support for gay marriage and abortion, RC preachers would go heavy on political corruption in Chicago. Would make a great combination.

Going lightly on g.m. and a. would not require editorial policy changes and would not alienate readers. RC preachers could start slowly on corruption and build up, staying with generalities and naming no names.

Look. Even to mention bribery and bribe-taking would be revolutionary. And vote-stealing? Paddy would have to bar the door.

So go for it, you two, my near-daily partners in finding and living the good life without help from Miller Hi-Life beer, though I have to admit with an occasional boost therefrom.

From recent prayer meeting, what did speaker mean by things she has been told, as following:

* “Be the song, embody the song.” She commented, It was “pretty profound for me.”

* We want to find “not a path to God but in God.”

As to the second, the path to God would be something most people can understand. “In God” needs much more explaining than she offered and was not self-explanatory or inspiring, as she implied.

Same for being a song. Called for lots of explanation not given nor supplied by hearing that it was “pretty” profound for her, apart from modifying “profound” with the diminutive “pretty,” which was pretty confusing for me.

Woman has degrees from locally approved pastoral-helper training program attended by many Chicago-area pastoral helpers. Gives us Catholicism Lite, but worse, Catholicism confusing. Sorry.