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

“We are going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria
will not be happy about and may very well 
go into that now disgraced country 
with guns-a-blazin’.”
President Donald J. Trump
November 1, 2025

“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.”
President Donald Trump
“Truth Social” post, November 1, 2025

“The love of God, the love for one’s neighbor…
All religion is found there…
How to get to that point?
Not in a day since it is perfection itself:
it is the goal we must always aim for,
which we must unceasingly try to reach
and that we will only attain in heaven.”
Charles Eugèn Vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand 

Get ready!

Two American Catholic priests – Anglican/Episcopal and Roman – are about to hail the wife of a North American Orthodox Church priest who has been named a saint (She has been named a saint; not her husband.) and a newly declared candidate for sainthood from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while resurrecting a song from 1945.

Despite some folks’ accusations, I’m not a “bleeding heart liberal.”

I believe some men and women “should never see the light of day in the ‘free world.’” 

“Free world” - a prison term that needs no explanation.

O Sweet God Almighty, what is this world coming to     ?!?! 

The overweight (and he really is overweight) guy is an electoral miracle worker.

Except that…

He isn’t!

“Hear this, you foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear…”
Jeremiah 5:21

It was not quite fifty years ago – a fact established by the number of folks who complained that I did not celebrate Mass “in Latin, the way it’s supposed to be.”

Ordained maybe five years, I lost it!

It still tops the list of the most unforgettable moments of the pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

In the Roman suburb of Corviale and after celebrating Mass, Pope Francis met with and answered questions from the neighborhood’s children. 

Ohhhh! How we wish this were true!

Respectfully (and this is the kindest phrase we can find), Florida Surgeon General Joseph Lapado is a horse’s patootie.

From The Los Angeles Times (“ChatGPT pulled teen into a ‘dark and hopeless place’ before he took his life….” August 28, 2025):

“Adam Raine, a California teenager, used ChatGPT to find answers about everything, including his schoolwork as well as his interests in music, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Japanese comics.

Please!

Really, please!

If you’re any age between conception and 140-years-old, don’t come to Florida!

There are funeral processions and…

There are funeral processions!

Lincoln. John and Robert Kennedy. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Name the city is famous for:

• Paczli - a Polish pastry (or pastries; we’re not sure).

• Vernors ginger ale

• Faygo sodas

• Bumpy cake – a chocolate cake with buttercream frosting “bumps”

• Superman Ice Cream – a swirl of vanilla, blue raspberry, and cherry ice cream

Stumped?

Hoping we are correct, we grit our teeth as we write “It may have been Euripides (c. 480 B.B – c. 406 B.C.), who (to the best of our ability to determine) first observed “every man is like the company he is wont to keep.’” 

Ohhhh! How we wish this were true!

In fact, it’s like an ole fashion good news-bad news-sad news joke delivered as an email with a link to a Facebook post that began: 

"BREAKING: The Catholic Church enrages MAGA world as the Archdiocese of Miami unequivocally condemns [TNSFIDCOTEOTFE] as ‘unbecoming of public officials’ and ‘corrosive of the common good.’ The Church has quickly become Donald Trump's greatest enemy: ...”

At least historically, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is wrong.

In a January 25 “Message to the Force” the Secretary insisted “We will revive the warrior ethos and restore trust in our military.”

Half-right ain’t right.

And the psalmist was barely half-right:

Weeping may stay for the night,
     but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
Psalm 31:4