"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
If she would just urge Trump-style actions leading to unprecedented jobs and job growth among blacks and latinos, who generally lead in the poverty rankings.
Make it easier for businesses to grow and spout jobs, Mayor Lori. Be a good mayor.
(How much chance is that, however? There’s a way to make this happen, I mean to reduce poverty, not end it, for God’s sake, but she is surely immune to such an endeavor.)
But the big one lurking behind it all is whether the answers will contain anything to besmirch the reputation of the one or those giving them. This is why it’s taking so long.
The archdiocese, which includes the District and its Maryland suburbs, received $10,350,027 for the 2019 Annual Appeal, compared with the 2018 total of $14,192,188, which is about where it had hovered since 2013. The drive was called “the Cardinal’s Appeal” until a year ago, when officials rebranded it to play down the image of high-ranking clerics.
Different story next door:
The annual fundraising drive in the nearby Arlington Diocese is still named the Bishop’s Appeal, and it took in $17,202,000 in 2019, down from $18,400,000 in 2018 but up from previous years. The diocese, which covers northeastern Virginia, has about one-third fewer Catholics than the Archdiocese of Washington.
The sordid tale plays out . . .
Following lot of sound and fury from synodical cowboys, now this. Francis has quite a show on his hands. As a CEO, he’d have a board asking many qq.
Pope Francis, in one of the most significant decisions of his papacy, has dismissed a proposal to allow some married men to be ordained in the Amazon region to ease an acute scarcity of priests.
Impatient too, I bet. Like me trying to understand the dental assistant with fingers in my mouth. Frustrating.
The 10 worst, via Dollars & Crosses
Blithe Spirit 