We have to wonder why he beats this drum in this way at this time. It’s a harsh way to put down foolishness. Does he know of Catholics who dismiss self-help and ignore danger for the sake of magical prayer? Is this how he sees the day’s challenges?

It’s as if he sees his role as designated apologizer for the supernatural, front man for an organization eager for majority support. A little nuance might work better. It’s unseemly for him to appear so eager to cater to the suspicious or uninformed.

Later: Whom does he know who prays but ignores the peril? It’s Cupich one, straw man nothing.

Answer? Easy:

Probably for the same reason the media won’t cover Tara Reade’s accusations against Joe Biden. To cover either story would potentially help Donald Trump, and that is something media outlets will go far out of their way to avoid.

CBS legal analyst and center-left attorney Jonathan Turley raised the issue I covered on Friday, which is the former VP’s serial public allegations that Trump would somehow try to postpone or cancel the election in November.

A bridge too far for Joe B. But mainstream says so what.

Isn’t this interesting.

Both doctors understand and support the initial reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak by the federal, state and local governments. It was a novel virus and there was very limited information.

However, now they assert that the data is telling them that the disease pattern of COVID-19 is more like the flu. [!]

Dr. Erickson phrased it this way, “Millions of cases, a small number of deaths.”

He specifically noted that the difference in the number of deaths between Sweden, with limited restrictions, and Norway, which locked down, is not statistically significant.

Nice try, but made no difference.

If you’re trending, you better watch out. Joe B’s past haunts.

The media did its best to ignore the assault allegations against Joe Biden, but the video of the mother of accuser Tara Reade calling the Larry King Live show in 1993 has changed things.

Even some well known Democrats are saying Biden should drop out.

In my humble (worthless?) opinion, it’s not going to happen.

Ladies and gentlemen, that’s it for now.

New game in town calls for less time for the boys and girls of the MASS MEDIA, for whom a guess is as good as a mile and a gotcha beats all.

Yay. Righting a wrong. A rarity.

Would seem he has his eye on a practice for which he has neither taste nor respect.

Supporters of the Mass are suspicious.

Fake news strikes again, but this time has to skin back.

. . . bromides?

“A pastor’s power is his service, he has no other power and when he mistakes this with another power he ruins his vocation and becomes, I don’t know, a manager of a pastoral enterprise but not a pastor. The structure does not do the pastoral care: the pastor’s heart is what does the pastoral care”.

Hear, hear. No Rotary Club speaker could do better.

It’s homely advice from Uncle.

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Can’t be justified:

Under the guise of executive powers reserved for short-term disasters such as hurricanes, leaders across the West have done the previously unthinkable: they have FORBIDDEN entire segments of the population from working.

Using a nonsensical distinction between essential and non-essential (as if providing for one’s family is ever non-essential) our entire workforce has been divided into three groups: 1.) The upper class with jobs that can be performed in their pajamas at home, 2.) Laborers lucky enough to still be able to go to work, and 3.) Those intentionally rendered unemployed.

Those who belong to that final group include those for whom the popes of yesteryear wrote with concern. Waitresses, barbers, sales employees, janitors, those who provide child care and others who often live paycheck to paycheck. Also included are those who are small business owners, those who represent best the type of world envisioned by the popes for a fair market, namely those who aren’t rich themselves but through the own labor and risk create jobs so that others can provide for their families.

The now month-long and counting prohibition against labor for these people is intrinsically evil, for it is a violation of the rights of these men and women to preserve their lives. Even if they are made whole (they won’t be) by the printing of cash by their respective governments, they are being robbed of the dignity of eating by the labor of their hands. This can NEVER be approved, regardless of the consequences, just as one cannot murder [a] baby to save millions of people.

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