Catholics must end the excuses for pedophile clergy members
We Catholics have to stop offering excuses and mitigating circumstances for the utterly depraved actions of our pedophile priests and the despicable superiors who have covered for them for decades.
The blather that some Catholics offer about sexual abuse in other organizations and in the media serves no purpose other than to deflect attention from the scourge of pedophilia among our priests and bishops.
Opining about evil presences and the dark forces of Satan rampant in the universe are puerile attempts to mitigate the Church’s inexcusable failure to stop the grievous harm that its priests have perpetrated on innocent children for far too long.
The only evil presence in Pennsylvania, and in most other cases, is not the devil, but rather that evil which people choose to inflict on others. There is absolutely no need for the distracting and highly immature pseudo-theology that wants to give the devil his due and offer our clergy excuses for the inexcusable.
The vile pedophile priests and the despicable superiors who hid their depravity for decades were the only evil presence afoot in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Catholics need to own it fully or be complicit with it.
Thankfully, mercifully, Trump’s foolish military parade is nixed
The parade is canceled! Surely those are words of music to the ears of the potential participants. Scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 10, a down day even for most military personnel, the parade was conceived by presidential ego so that thousands of troops could march past him and salute him on the reviewing stand.
Marching in a parade is not high on the list of any military person’s thing to do. Especially on a weekend.
Of course a man who has never marched, ever, (due to suffering from a severe case of bone spurs) would not have understood that.
300 editorial page editors all have Trump Derangement Syndrome
By far the largest story of yesterday was the proof that Trump was right about extreme vetting all along.
How many of the 300 news editors united across America wrote an editorial opinion about repairing our broken and useless immigration system?
Or how many wrote an opinion praising Trump for capturing this former ISIS fighter before he could blow up a Los Angeles skyscraper full of people.
How many will continue to print stories about the benefits of “sanctuary cities.”
These editors have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and I am so glad that Trump has called you news people out.
A president who routinely berates the news media is dangerous
In reponse to the letter “Americans sick of ... anti-Trump news,” I must agree, but for other reasons. We are sick of the president’s barrage of juvenile tweets, boorish behavior, narcissism, vindictiveness, outlandish claims, etc., etc., that occur daily.
The president deliberately provides fodder for the press and sadly, most of it is negative.
But having a president constantly berate the press as fake news and call them “enemies of the people” is dangerous to our democracy. I am proud that over 300 newspapers across the nation stood up in editorials to remind folks how important the press is to our daily lives.
Without the free press, we would be an awful lot like Russia or China and fed only what the state would want us to believe.
And we have diversity of news resources, but the trick is to discern between journalists vs columnists and media talking heads. Sadly, many folks can’t.
I believe that newspaper has been very measured in their reporting about the president and have provided excellant reporting on local matters. Keep up the good journalism!