News You Really Don't Need

News You Really Don't Need

With apologies to Ben Franklin, there are other certainties in life aside from death and taxes and Ben may not have said that in the first place. Another surety is news since something is always happening on our planet whether we want to hear about it or not.

There are many happenings the squeamish would prefer not to know about, other events few of us care about, and still more most of us find so mystifying or just so plain dumb that we tend to believe the news accounts just have to be wrong.

In the recently mystifying category are a plethora of stories which, no matter how hard we wish, are true whether we choose to believe them or not.

Take, for example, the Holy Name of Jesus parish in West Palm Beach, Florida, which offered a “prayer request” in last Sunday’s bulletin for the repose of the soul of the mass murderer and architect of 9/11, Osama bin Laden.

More rational critics abounded and parishioner Lois Pizzano spelled out their objections: “I think it’s totally wrong, he doesn’t belong in the Catholic religion. For what he did to Americans, he doesn’t belong anywhere. It’s unconscionable, it’s sacrilegious,” a sentiment with which the pastor, Father Gavin Badway, took issue.

Rev. Badway concedes that many in his congregation are less than happy with the idea of praying for the Butcher of 9/11 but “he says the church has never turned down a prayer request before. He says making the right decision isn’t always easy.” He added that, “Their [parishiners'] hearts are troubled because they’re thinking emotionally about what he has done and he has done a lot of evil. Nevertheless, Jesus tells us, love and forgive.”(http://bit.ly/myxk0Q)

As a fellow Catholic, I have to wonder if Rev. Badway is in complete possession of his senses and whether we are also expected to pray for Judas, Attila, Hitler, and other poor, misunderstood, bloody souls. I also have to wonder whether Badway is just ambitious to move on up the clergy ranks by demonstrating how caring he is or whether he’s gay since homosexuals are said to be very empathetic.

Out there in the secular world, Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley is also evidently a sensitive guy. He joined his state to ten others in signing on to the so-called Dream Act, which act has been repudiated, so far, by the U.S. Congress and which is only a dream for illegal invaders of our country and for Democrat politicians who crave their votes . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4492)