Daily Archives: 01/08/2013

(Community Matters) Many individual parishes do much good, certainly many of the Catholic Relief Organizations do; and, growing up Catholic, I knew many priests who I adored.. The hierarchy of this vulnerable institution, however, and some of the various sects – there’s obviously a disconnect from the world’s reality and there’s a lack of any accountability.

Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, declared Jews “enemies of the Church,” during a talk that aired on a Canadian radio station, the Catholic News Agency recently reported. Fellay’s remarks took place on Dec. 28 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Chapel in New Hamburg, Ontario.

(Community Matters) My dinner club met at our house last night. Dinner topic, everyone’s words: Joene Grissom, EXPLORE; Sandi Tomlinson, GROWTH; Marianne Rochelle, WILLING; Mark Salmanson, PATIENCE; Christopher Kennedy, PACE. Cookie Ruiz wasn’t able to make this one, though we did discuss her word earlier in the day.

updated: Willing from Willingness

(Community Matters) Connecticut State Rep Debra Lee Hovey’s comment to former Congressman Gabrielle Giffords who visited the families of victims in Newton, Conn, “Gabby Giffords stay out of my towns!!!”