Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Daily Rome Shot 579, etc.

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DIEBUS SALTEM DOMINICIS – 23rd Sunday after Pentecost

Few experiences in life are more challenging than waiting for relief from suffering, your own, certainly, but especially the suffering of a loved one. Suffering can yield self-revelation.  People’s darker or brighter sides come to the surface.  Their relationships change.  … Read More →

Daily Rome Shot 580, etc.

Meanwhile… WHITE to move. This is going to be gory.  Gory and sneaky. NB: I may hold comments with puzzle solutions a little longer than others so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Priestly chess players, drop me a line. … Read More →

Manifestations of total madness (aka Motus in fine velocior)

Signs of the times… First, Archbp. Vincenzo Paglia – head of the Pontifical Academy for Life – did an interview for RU-486‘s (aka The Tablet) with the writer most suited for that sort of intercourse.  You will recall that when … Read More →

Flying Padre Pio stopped bombers during WW2

I rounded this up from Fakebook. “In the photo Padre Pio and the North American Protestant pilots who converted to Catholicism after seeing the Saint flying with his planes.” The testimony of a general who was converted: in the region … Read More →