A Treasure To Be Shared

Michael D. Adder Sung to the tune of God Save The Queen (My Country, 'Tis Of Thee) Our country much less free, filled with much misery: Justin's a jerk. Blaming his enemies, cause of his own defeat; Jody should kick him in his seat: Justin is a jerk. A Catholic-In-Name-Only politician could learn much from his political colleagues if he would allow himself to be instructed in the ethical management of the people's business, i.e., the proper stewardship of the people's resources. Lent, it seems, has been wasted by Prime Minister Trudeau. Given his very public antipathy toward anyone who deviates from or challenges his liberal religion, there is little hope that he would find something in the practice of the Faith that would lead him to admit, at the very least, to an error in judgement. Like so many of our Canadian Catholic brethren, the Trudeaus are more Canadian than Catholic: nice to the point of being giddily eager to tolerate threats to inalien...

Seven Ages of Man by William Mulready (1838) - Wikipedia All the world’s a stage,  And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,  His acts being seven ages. — Jaques to Duke Senior,   As You Like It by William Shakespeare: Act II, Scene VII. The stage is set for a reckoning. Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of your son: give me your blessing: truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man's son may, but at the length truth will out. —Launcelot, Merchant of Venice  by William Shakespeare:  Act 2 Scene 2. Professor Janet E. Smith , consecrated virgin and a moral theologian at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, has identified in no uncertain terms a serious concern long resonating among Catholics convinced that a deadly syst...