Some of these soldiers fought and died
for a country that did not always
see them as equals.

At least in the beginning, this one’s just for fun.

Hopefully yours.  

Certainly ours.

“The fact that millions of people share the same vices
does not make these vices virtues,
the fact that they share so many errors
does not make the errors to be truths,
and the fact that millions of people share
the same form of mental pathology
does not make these people sane.”
Social Psychologist and Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm

I apologize.

Weeks short of fifty years as a priest, I still cannot explain The Resurrection.

I believe.

That’s it: I believe.

“People speak sometimes about the
‘bestial’ cruelty of man,
but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts;
no animal could ever be so cruel as a man,
so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

I often tell counseling clients “The only time to worry is when I look worried and, since I’m not worried, you don’t need to worry.”

So, even though my doctors can’t explain it and are incredibly confused, don’t worry, ‘Cause I’m not.

The numbers – more than 1,500 men, women and children in twenty-five years - were staggering, but not surprising.

It was ecumenical – but not interfaith.

When officials from a Chinese medical school asked if “Dr. Flynn” could give a lecture on a subject way out of my field, American Maryknoll Father (and medical doctor, expert on HIV/AIDS) Scott Harris responded, “Give him a day to prepare and he can talk for two hours about the sex life of chopsticks.”

AuthenticHealers has received a preview of the 2026 International Society for the Promotion of Common Sense “What Are They Thinking?” Survey. 

We apologize…

To the Mark Twain fans who believe he was the first to make the cogent argument about figures, statistics, lies and liars.

Who knew?

We’ll admit, we were halfway stumped.

Halfway…

He was (probably never to his face) called a “pit bull” and “Rottweiler.”

Nonetheless, “the Rottweiler” would certainly have words for legislators in Texas, Louisiana, Florida and a handful of other states who are knocking themselves out (and exhausting many of us) demanding the placement of posters of the King James Bible version of the Ten Commandments in classrooms across the nation.

In a nationwide radio broadcast, Oscar Armulfo Romero y Galdamez signed his own death warrant.

“Do not fret because of evildoers
or be envious of the wicked, 
for the evildoer has no future hope
and the lamp of the wicked 
will be snuffed out.”
Proverbs 24: 19-30

Before and after whatever he experienced during World War II, “Big Mike” was BIG. Memories of more than fifty years ago are that from the time he woke in the morning until well after sunset his home was filled with music - Frank Sinatra or Italian opera. 

The United States Capitol’s Statuary Hall will host a special February 30^th ceremony at which Dr. Moelarrycurly Joeshempjoe will present (dis)Honorary Doctor of Theological Ignorance degrees to a member of the United States House of Representatives and a US senator. 

I still laugh about Blanca’s introduction to an “American” Roman Catholic version of one of  Christianity’s oldest prayers – dating at least to the early third century and Hippolytus’s Apostolic Tradition.

(For almost three decades, Father Skipper celebrated Christmas Eve Mass for a community of family and friends gathered in his parents’ home. Rather than to give a “sermon,” it was his custom to offer an original short story What follows is the introduction and one of those stories. Please accept it as a small gift during this Christmas season.)

(We hope you will accept the following
small offering as an early Christmas gift.)

Have you ever wondered about God?

I don't mean prayed. 

No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.