200 years of failure, so what?

The sin of utopianism.

True socialists do not want a better world, they want a perfect one. That is why they so often view piecemeal amelioration with disdain or even hostility, and why they are willing to sacrifice the happiness of a present generation for the imagined bliss of a generation to come in the distant future.

Well said.

Contributing to “the vicious cycle of waste.”

His meditation on bishops.

But how are they with aggressive policing? The imperfect solution, the only one available?

A picture, in this case a cartoon, being worth lots of words, let this simple message sink in if you will.

From an English pastor of a Novus Ordo parish. He tried to introduce the top one on a regular basis but had near-“riots” on his hand. Did so with school children, who did not complain. On to a new parish assignment, where he will be “treading carefully” in the matter.

Personally, I keep the head down. Even top-notch pastors look out at us worshipers. I think, here’s to you, everybody! Said genially. of course, but not always. I know I caught a bona fide glare from one fellow with whom I had tangled . . .

Later: Oh, I didn’t notice. He’s had a fervently appreciated EF (Latin) mass monthly, on a Sunday at 5 p.m. So he has found some market for it.

More here on how the latest from Francis “falls short.”

Vos Estis Lux Mundi, the new papal directive for handling sex abuse charges, takes a few steps toward reform within the Catholic Church. But the papal document???a??motu proprio, carrying the force of canon law???falls well short of an adequate response to a burgeoning scandal.

He can’t or won’t get a handle on it. Why the heck not?

There’s more, as to instructions on how bishop reports bishop:

. . . the bulk of the papal document addresses a specialized question: How should Church officials respond to charges of misconduct lodged against a bishop? Here the pope fails to address the fundamental challenge to the credibility of the Catholic hierarchy. The new policies were obviously drawn up in response to the worldwide scandal that erupted last year with the revelations of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s chronic sexual misconduct. So perhaps the best way to illustrate their deficiencies would be to imagine how things might have developed if these policies had been in place in the late 1990s, when rumors of McCarrick’s sexual escapades began to circulate.

Under the new system, a complaint against a bishop should be brought to the attention of the metropolitan archbishop in the region. But McCarrick was the metropolitan archbishop—first in Newark, then in Washington, D.C. In such a case, the new policy stipulates that the complaint should be sent to the Holy See. But reports about McCarrick were conveyed to the Vatican, and for years nothing happened. Later, when McCarrick retired, complaints might have been made to his successor, Cardinal Donald Wuerl. But again, Wuerl was informed.

Why would Francis pick on this solution as if it were no solution at all if the rot went so high and so deep?

Say it isn’t so? A congressman making moolah out of his job?

A charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband???s committee and could have been used illegally, according to an IRS complaint filed by an ethics watchdog group.

Cummings, 68, a Maryland Democrat, is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, 48, is the chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and briefly ran in the state’s gubernatorial race last year. The couple married in 2008. Cummings was once heavily in debt ??? in part due to hefty child support payments to his first wife and two other women he had children with ??? but his financial situation has improved considerably over the past decade.

And a Democrat at that, one of them who want Trump to come clean about his finances!

Shocking.