AN OPEN LETTER TO:

“THE PROUD BOYS” (although we’ve never figured out what you are proud of or why), the “3 PERCENTERS” (despite the fact that your name is historically inaccurate), the OATH BREAKERS (‘nough said), the IDIOTS WHO MARCHED WITH TIKI TORCHES IN CHARLOTTESVILLE (with an apology to idiots), and the MARAUDERS OF 1/6:

Desperate for the perfect Christmas gift for the thirteen-to-seventeen-year-olds in your life?

Fear not!

“Let me tell you that you have not arrived at a health spa,
but a German concentration camp.
You will find only one exit — the crematorium chimney.
If you don’t like the sound of this,
you can leave at once by throwing yourself on the electric fences.
If any of you are Jews,
you have the right to live no longer than two weeks.
Priests one month.
The rest of you three months.”
Kommandant Rudolph Hoss or one of his subordinates
in the announcement to prisoners arriving at
the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz

(Divina Inspiratione New Service. Islamorada, Florida – November 4, 2022)  

A scrum of international reporters –
summoned by predawn calls to their unlisted
cell phones - gathered on Wednesday
at Morada Bay on this mid-Keys island
for an historic 3:00 p.m. interview.
The Divina Inspiracione representative
filed this pre-American-election report.

One can imagine the obituaries, had there been newspapers in 1557:

Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich of Leigh, a conniving invertebrate, who betrayed his friends and the Truth in the pursuit of political power, died in his home on June 12.

“He who is committed to the poor must share
the same fate as the poor… to disappear, to be tortured…
and to be found dead by the side of the road….”
Saint and Bishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador

“God will bring every work into judgment,
including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”
Ecclesiastes 12:14

“…after this the judgment.”
Hebrews 9:27

We’re old enough to remember “the Queen of Mean.” The flamboyant and tyrannical New York (and other places) hotelier Leona Roberts Helmsley (1920-2007) with a net worth of over $1 billion, infamous for not or under-paying contractors, who was indicted by Rudy Giuliani in 1988 on charges of tax-fraud and extortion.

“The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection
of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.”
Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P.
Catholic priest and theologian

Jonathan Myrick Daniels graduated from the tradition-laden (and then tradition-of-segregation-laden) Virginia Military Institute in 1961.

Hatred of Notre Dame football and “The Fighting Irish” is a long-lasting family tradition.

Part of our DNA.

Celebrated. Embraced. Preached.

Respecting parliamentary procedure and the “Rules of Decorum & Debate in the House [of Representatives],” we will observe, “The gentlelady from Georgia’s 14th congressional district is as looney tunes as a dodo bird that thinks it can fly and her recent performance deserves a reward for outstanding political thespianism.

Almost two-hundred-and-twenty-six years after her death, Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst’s foresight stands in condemnation of America’s January 6 insurrectionists.

And she was certainly transactionally promiscuous.

(Divina Inspiratione New Service. Chokoloskee, Florida. 8/19/2022)

Earlier this week, in an astonishing – and ofttimes rambling - press conference, one of the earliest leaders of worldwide Christianity addressed a wide range of issues.

"Guilt which remains guilt is dangerous.
It will become too heavy a burden sooner or later,
and may in the end result in blaming the victim…
We must help our students transform their sense of guilt
into a sense of responsibility, for the present and the future."
Holocaust historian Eva Fleischner

The guns fell silent on the Western Front at 11 a.m., November 11, 1918, hours after German representatives signed a peace treaty.

Days later Australian violinist Daisy Kennedy was celebrating in Mayfair, an affluent area in London’s West End, and became absorbed in a conversation with the handsome young officer sitting next to her - a veteran of fighting on the Western Front, and, during the conversation, Daisy mentioned New Zealander Harold Gillies, a fellow Antipodean – person from Australia or New Zealand, whose work was renowned the world over.

Alabama.

Hmmmmm!?!?

Alabama.

Despite the fact that in May U.S. News and World Report ranked Huntsville as the “Best Place to Live,” there’s so much more to say about Alabama.

Rooms in the Gray Bar Hotel are about the size of an elevator and very unpretentious – a steel bunk bolted to the wall, stainless steel combination toilet-and-sink, (maybe a footlocker for the really fortunate) and no view.

Asked to hear second graders confessions, then newly ordained Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois of Lutcher, Louisiana - You know Luthcher: “between Gramercy and Paulina.” – still has one of the best “Confession stories” of all time.

In the Twenty-first Century United States, what happened at Las Llamas under the Chimu empire is incomprehensible.

Except it’s not!