More Lourdes, Oui Oui Merci.

 The town of Lourdes proudly displays two flags in front of the Mayor's offices housed in what is called the Hotel de Ville complex: the French and European Union one. Stunning buildings against the backdrop of Pyraneese Mountains.

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Below is the super friendly and very helpful front desk receptionist person where I stayed close to the Mayor's offices.

 Below is the female owner (with her husband) of
the bistro NAVARRE which was one of the best in town- their pasta San Jaques was a seafood pasta that was awesome.  The guy below is a super fun friendly and slightly flirty waiter:-) They take reservations for groups, and its a favorite priest hang out apparently.  http://www.brasserie-le-navarre.fr
click HERE

Bright Beautiful day in the Mountains-

People Who Throw

Women Under the Bus
Need Not Apply (Please don't apply)


This Cardinal put it nicely:
Polish Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, told the synod that the greatest obstacle a priest or theologian faces in becoming an effective evangelizer "is without a doubt pride, along with its natural ally, selfishness. The obsession with becoming great, original (and) important reduces more than a few to being 'pastors who shepherd themselves and not their flocks,'" as St. Augustine once said.

Egoism, Grandstanding, and all that pompous pretentious parading siliness (like we don't know where you came from) 
running around in red dresses in Rome. Give me a Break. 

“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them ‘Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,’ but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it? So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead. Indeed some might say, ‘you have faith and I have works.’ Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.”
— James 2:14-18

Cyber-strangeness

Hack Attacks and other Evils

     If you got an email from my email address that said click on this link where you were hit with an ad for Canadian generic pharmaceuticals or viagra or an all new insurance product or ranting heretically, this did not come from me. Trust me.   (well maybe the ranting heretically, but you want to ask to be sure).  I have had to change my password a number of times due to hacking. How do I know about this? Because the idiot cyber-hackers sent the same email to me with my email address on it or people emailed me and said WTF-is this you sending me this?  You get them too I am sure- its called email 'spoofing' because people misappropriate your email address and act like they are you. It is a type of identity fraud. Change your password immediately.

The Chinese are denying that they hacked sensitive US servers. There are criminali out there- not all or maybe any of them are chinese. Who knows. But immense damage can be done by it. So there should be a force of cybersleuth-security in the military staffed and budgeted as heartily as traditional military. More so.

This is the danger behind the blessing of new technologies-you do not know for sure who is sending anything to you. So if you have a question about "Did you really send this?" you should immediately email back and ask the person or better yet, call the person and say "Did you send this?" I have received a number of wierd emails from people I barely know with addresses of theirs I forgot I even had just because I might be in their email address book from five years ago peddling something I know that they have nothing to do with. If I have any question about it- I ask. I am an attorney. I do not have anything to do with Canadian generic pharmaceuticals. Here is another hint. I have never sent an email to anyone I did not know which started with "hello cutie would you like to see my picture, click here?"
Before you sabotage a relationship over it, just ask the person. Use a little common sense. Ask them in person.
     You should not hit "spam" even thought it is because the real email address will never get to you then. Tell the person to change their password. This is a way that someone can totally block the emails of anyone getting anything from that email address again- if everyone hits spam then no one will receive the emails from them any longer and they will wonder why no one is answering them. You should alert the person to the hacking immediately.

     There are very evil people out there- some even in the church who want to destroy other people in the church. Sickening I know. There are some who don't like the party political position of other vocal people, some who would like to destroy their reputations to dilute or discredit their message. They will use hacking if they have to. Some of these creeps are really cyper-sophistocated. Some cyberhackers have devised ways to put worms, trojans or devices loaded onto their emails which download malware and steal information from the recipient's computer.

     For the record, no, I never sent anything peddling canadian pharma, insurance, hello cutie photos of someone not me, and lets see what else .....emails that start with people pretending to me wierdly gratuitously opining on something you have to click to download, highly offensive material or other wierdness.

This isn't legal advice, its common sense advice- ask first.

Do to others what you want done to you. Would you want someone deleting you without asking it if was really you? Should people mistake you for the wierdo peddling Hello Cutie downoads? OBVIOUSLY there are ill intending people out there. The devil is real. Sometimes he sits in the pews.
Sometimes he even tries to stand guard at the front door.

 

 
 

Viva La France

Toujours.

      In tribute to great French patriots-  Here are some fun French markers I found, including a plaque on a hotel in Lourdes which indicates where the Germans surrendered to the French in that town, near the train station.

 DeGaulle's famous speech, we have lost the battle but not the war. ...Nothing is lost!...In the Free World, the immense (huge, vast) forced have not given in. One day these forces will crush the enemy.
On that day France will be there Victorious.  She will find again her freedom and grandeur. This is my only goal.  This is why I convoke all the French, wherever you find yourself, to unit with me in action, in sacrifice and in HOPE.  Our country is in mortal danger. Everyone fight to save it! Long Live France.  (speech given in London in 1940).

 Outside the magnificent mountain village gothic church in Carteret this monument, anchored by the Blessed mother, is to all the people of that town who lost their lives in the world wars. They name each person on the plaque to the left of the Mary medalion.

Chaque Mot de la Bouche de Dieu

I bought a Journal

   So I don't have to bother P3 fans with every waking thought. But before I start journaling-
one thought if you will indulge me.
Is it too late for the Conclave to make Msgr Brouwet a Cardinal? Because his homily this morning at the Feast of Bernadette was one of the most inspiring I have heard. Its about a girl called "La Folle"-the crazy one- because who thinks really the Virgin Mary actually appears?  The Virgin Mary herself could have been called La Folle for thinking the Holy Spirit got her pregnant. Riiiiight. Go sit over there little missy- we know what you have been up to.

   The Virgin Mary is fond of people called crazy. The disbelieved visionaries. Those a bit ahead of their time perhaps. Those with eyes to see and do. Those who believe in the supreme overwhelming overcoming Love of God the Almighty.

  The homily noted that the Holy Spirit is guiding the church. This church in Lourdes was packed to the standing room only gills this morning for the Feast of Bernadette. The Holy Spirit is guiding it, and the fact that there will be a new Pope is being guided by the Holy Spirit. He called everyone to pray for the church and Benoit (as he applauded him).

 As I had my morning chocolate croissant I kept thinking "man can not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God." Thus the liturgy has both eucharist (bread of life) and liturgy of the Word (equally important.) Every Word that comes forth from the mouth of God. I actually kept hearing it in french. Chaque mot ...de la bouche de Dieu. And this is the great function of the church- to disseminate every word that comes forth from God's mouth as well as eucharistic bread of life. The church is God's bibliopatisserie. It will carry on with fortitude and grace because God's word never goes out idle-  and it's God's desire that it be known in every corner of the world.


The homily stressed that God despises the proud- and raises up the humble. Like a little poor mountain sheepherding girl. How can anyone be proud in the sight or thought of God?  God uses the weak things of the world to confound the arrogant. On purpose. Because he can't stand snobs. The proud. Orgeille. Its not only a sin, its one of those so obnoxious God has to break it down. Because it rises to idolotry of
one's own ego.

What Great God we have who loves a poor little mountain sheepherding girl to send the Virgin Mary Blessed Mother to have a little grotto-side chat with her. Of all the people in the world that the Virgin Mary could pick to hang out with, she wants to hang out with a little slightly outcast peasant girl from an impoverished family in the mountains.

Who do the big great people usually want to talk to? Other great important people? God wants to send the Virgin Mary to talk to a little sickly poor mountain sheepherding girl in a remote small village in the Pyraneese.

Whoever you are then, God wants to reach you too.  And he wants his message to get to you. Because his Word is Life.
Every one of his Words. Chaque Mot qui vient de la bouche de Dieu.


   

village of hope

Lourdes, Home town of

the girl they all thought was crazy.

She's Here

The Relics of Bernadette Soubirous

   Have landed in the local parish where she worshipped in Lourdes, France. Sorry the lighting was so dark lots of the pics didn't turn out well. The service was a moving chorale singing reception and liturgy with scripture readings.
   People prayed around the reliquary. Other annoying people like me took pictures. Not sure which parts of her are actually in this reliquary that the kind sisters from Nevers brought to Lourdes because she is mostly in Nevers incorrupt.

 

My Vote Goes To

CARDINAL SEAN O'MALLEY 

  of Boston. Of course I am completely disenfranchised, being female, under 80 and not a cleric much less a Cardinal.  Nevertheless....

  He's a Franciscan. He's from the South Hills of Pittsburgh (so are my parents), he speaks fluent Spanish (fastest growing area of the church is in Latin America) and he is Irish.

Any more questions?

      (Franciscans call themselves in all great humility the Friars Minor- because the Friars Major-e.g. Dominicans- can be intellectually snobbish in their zeal I have found-first hand experience trust me.)

    Franciscans follow the charism of the great peacemaker Saint Francis. You know the prayer- it was on my mother's fridge always- Lord, Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace.

  Franciscans missionized the world. Look at how many names are Franciscan that are in California alone- San Francisco for starters. Santa Clara after Saint Claire, etc...and all the other biblical names thanks to the Franciscans, Santa Ana, San Joaquin, San Bernadino, etc....

     As speculation abounds a Jesuit from Milan would be great but an irishman franciscan who speaks spanish from Pittsburgh- OH MY GOODNESS!! Sign me up.

 

voici, Lourdes, Fr

If this is the Off Season

I can't wait to come in High Season.


   Five priests from Chicago sat behind me in a bistro called Navarre. It boasts quite rightly some of the best basque regional cuisine. They are only here for three days and didn't know where anything was. I should be a guide of sorts I thought. Yes, there are two houses where Bernadette lived I informed them; the rather nice one where she was born and the prison holding cell pit of a residence called the Cachot where they had to live because her father became disabled-lost his sight due to an accident which meant before the days of social security, he lost all his income. A milliner could make a good living- except if you were blind and could not see the grains.  If you were disabled then you lost your income and ability to support your family. The town housed them all in a prison holding cell and you can see it to this day. Its tiny  Then another American priest, this time from Philadelphia entered seemingly just to use the bathroom. I told him Rigali could be Pope and he chuckled, then felt remorseful (guilty even) and said "maybe." A prophet is not without honor except in his own home I thought.

    This morning the town (above chatchkiville which is the souvenir part of town surrounding the sanctuaries and grotto) there was a huge market- think Eastern Market times ten on a Saturday. The real town, not the touristy part is a typical but more prosperous than some small french village town. Its charming. It has all the typical french town stores like the Monoprix (that's where you get underwear-better than Target), the Carrefour (supermarket) and boulangerie and pattiserie stores that make Paul's look like the McDonalds version of french pastries. But even the McDos here (as they call McDonalds) has croissants and colorful macaroons.

There was a stand at the outdoor market today overtly evangelizing, giving away tracks on the book of John and selling bibles and other spiritual literature. Try that at Eastern Market. There was a flower market, ski jackets for around $20, ski underwear, gloves, hats, vegetable markets, kiddies clothes (adorable)  the local cheese maker guy with rows of cheese, the guy who canes chairs and a woman who charmingly paints scenes on the mountain slate they mine in the region. If you just went to chatchkiville, you missed half the town's magic and charm. The above photo is one done by a woman who was born here- Carole Costes who has a blog at carole-costes.over-blog.com you can find HERE
The portrait of Bernadette was done on the local slate.

If you want her to paint anything she can and also works from photos. email: costes.carole@gmail.com

She has a gallery called Galerie de Caro.

This is a woman

who makes honey at her local farm in all these varieties. Who knew honey

came in so many varieties and colors!

Here above is Carole- the true Lourdes native who paints on the local slate. Her stand is next 

to the provence tablecloths (because where do you think people from provence go in the winter:-)

Actuellement présent Aucun pèlerinage officiel actuellement présent à Lourdes. Archives historiques Le 13 février 2013, Mgr Nicolas Brouwet a adressé une lettre aux habitants de son diocèse de Tarbes et Lourdes à l'occasion de l'annonce de la démission du pape Benoît XVI. Il les invite à la prière. L'INTÉGRALITÉ DE LA LETTRE DE MGR NICOLAS BROUWET Aux prêtres, diacres, religieux, religieuses, à tous les fidèles du diocèse de Tarbes et Lourdes Le Pape Benoît XVI a annoncé lundi 11 février sa renonciation à sa charge de successeur de Pierre. Nous avons tous été surpris par cette décision. J’y vois un acte d’humilité, de courage et de liberté. D’humilité parce que le Pape a su reconnaître qu’il n’avait plus la force physique nécessaire pour accomplir sa mission et qu’il devait laisser sa charge à un autre. De courage parce qu’il faut une véritable force intérieure pour prendre une décision si inhabituelle et oser affronter ce que personne n’avait envisagé, prévu ou organisé. De liberté intérieure parce que Benoît XVI a su discerner et accepter devant Dieu ce qu’il pensait être le mieux pour l’Eglise indépendamment de la manière dont cela pourrait être interprété. Nous rendons grâce à Dieu pour ces huit années d’un pontificat traversé par de lourdes épreuves mais qui a marqué la vie de l’Eglise par tant d’initiatives et d’écrits qui nous ont encouragés, fortifiés et dynamisés. Je cite quelques moments forts de ce pontificat : les JMJ de Cologne et de Madrid, la visite du Pape à Paris et à Lourdes en 2008, l’Année Saint Paul, l’Année sacerdotale et l’Année de la Foi, les encycliques sur l’amour et sur l’espérance, les synodes sur la Parole de Dieu et sur la nouvelle évangélisation, les efforts pour favoriser l’unité des chrétiens, les visites aux communautés juives, les livres sur Jésus, la béatification du Pape Jean-Paul II. Benoît XVI me surprend toujours par l’humilité de son intelligence, la profondeur de ses discours et de ses homélies, la clarté de ses propos. Au XXIème siècle nous avons besoin d’un Pape qui, pour faire la communion, nous aide à discerner ce qui est bon et juste pour l’homme et pour la société. Benoît XVI a, de ce point de vue, ouvert la route. Avec sa liberté intérieure et son immense culture, avec son esprit d’analyse et sa faculté de synthèse, avec sa modestie et sa courtoisie, il nous a montré comment chercher la vérité, comment chercher à grandir en partageant la vie de Dieu. Je confie les mois qui viennent à votre prière. Je demande aux communautés paroissiales, aux communautés religieuses, aux personnes qui ne peuvent plus se déplacer et aux familles de prier le chapelet – au rythme de leur choix - aux intentions de l’Eglise et du Pape. Confions à Marie, Notre-Dame de Lourdes, et à sainte Bernadette que nous fêterons ce lundi 18 février, le prochain conclave et le Pape que le Seigneur voudra donner à son Eglise. Mgr Nicolas Brouwet, évêque de Tarbes et Lourdes

Adorable man carting a candle taller than he is to the Shrine. It says "Ireland" so I had to take a picture (he said 'Grazie' :-)

     Candles in Lourdes come in normal dinner table size, as long as your arm size, as long as your arm and torso size and bigger than your tallest friend size. Because you can never light too many prayers.

     

   

Merci Dieu

Tout Puissant

    I am in Lourdes. There is a higher power than the Pope apparently. Thank you Benoit for resigning.
Today, the day after the resignation the snow and rain cleared and there is a beautiful sunny day in this Pyranees mountain valley town. Little kids are heard playing cheerfully in the playground of their schoolyard behind the tourist bureau.
The Mass in French at the main sanctuary displayed beautiful loud singing- Ave Ave Ave Maria. And even during this past weekend of snow and rain pilgrims flocked to Lourdes to wait in long lines for the baths or just to touch the walls of the Grotto by La rive Gave dripping with fresh mountain water. Some people wiped the walls with their hankerchiefs. Others poured the water from the faucets into whatever containers they had on them or bought on the way.

   Everything seems brilliant and better here than the dinginess I left. There is even skiing in the next town- if you avoid the avalanches. Surprise after surprise has me thanking God I got to get here- even the McDonalds is better  (and i confess i stepped in there:-) -they have pistachio milkshakes and cheeseburgers with either goat cheese or camembert. Twix come in white chocolate, and homemade knit scarves are only 5 euros. The librarie at the Shrine has a great CD collection of sacred music.

   The train from Paris only changed once at 'Bayonne' -and so by train with connections it takes a half a day to get here- but its a beautiful train ride and less than 100 Euros.   When I have a better internet connection I will post photos.

 Now I am checking on the bus schedules to get to the nearest ski town.

Excuse Me

Mr. Bishop

  But where is your law degree?  Are you opining without a law license on what is or is not required in terms of elements of an equal protection claim?  Then why are you telling people what is or is not
Constitutional under the US Constitution regarding marriage equality. Are you a Supreme Court judge that you have already written an opinion on what the precedent dictates in terms of stare decisis for equal protection purposes regarding the marriage equality question. Then why are you firing people from jobs for espousing their opinions on what should or should not be legal? How ignorant, rude, and UnChristian can you be to endanger people's livelihoods because they have an opinion regarding a constitutional precedent on any particular subject. Is denying people their livelihoods pro Life? An opinion on what is or is not mandated according to stare decisis precedent by any amendment or clause of the Constitution is not necessarily an endorsement pro or con of any practice permitted by the Constitution.  Carrying loaded rifles into a Babies R Us scaring all the toddlers actually is Constitutionally permitted under the Second Amendment but I find it disgusting. You all need to stop persecuting people who hold opinions regarding what the Constitution says- especially because you are not lawyers - and one could argue practicing law without a license.  Do you think insulting and intimidating people is going to make them like you more? How stupid and disgusting.
Really, seriously- this is 'new evangelism?'  If this is New Evangelism, bring back the crusades. This is ridiculous. What jerks.

They're not buyin it either

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx58ds_suivez-l-integralite-des-debats-sur-le-mariage-pour-tous-en-direct_news#.URRCT6V8vww

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx58ds_suivez-l-integralite-des-debats-sur-le-mariage-pour-tous-en-direct_news#.URRCT6V8vww

Bush-Cheney- possibly the most evil administration in American History. Read this and weep. (or you are not worthy of being called American)

http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/projects/globalizing-torture

Let me Count the Ways

About 120 Reasons why marriage is, as Martha Stewart says- "a good thing." Beliefnet breaks it down HERE. http://www.beliefnet.com/Love-Family/Galleries/21-Reasons-to-Get-Married.aspx?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=paid_distribution&utm_campaign=PharmaOutbrain

How to Love

Enemies. A very kind generous hearted Jewish woman friend of mine whose grandfather was a well beloved famous Rabbi from Long Island posted this to her facebook page:

What Were They

Thinking?

     The strongest woman in history must have been the Virgin Mary. Can you imagine keeping her peace when people first mocked her pregnancy, then strung up her son? Can you imagine how she felt and lived on? She was mocked and derided, she was the mother of what they strung up like a criminal and watched. Can you imagine what that felt like--being the mother of a reputed criminal then watching as they kill him off as the supposed baddest actor in the country?  Imagine suffering the injustice knowing that they were totally wrong. Couldn't be more wrong. Couldn't be more evil in destroying pure goodness.

     Do you recall what happened on Pentacost? Flames of Fire came down on everyone present. EVERYONE. Not just men. Not just white men over 70. EVERYONE started talking in different languages and EVERYONE understood what was spoken. That was clear witness to the fact that Jesus wants EVERYONE to know him, EVERYONE to understand what he came to do, EVERYONE to love him and each other and EVERYONE to be part of his kingdom. Not just men. Not just white men over 70.
Not just the guys who wear black cassocks or white monk robes.  EVERYONE. The Spirit of the Living Lord is accessible to EVERYONE who is open to it.


   This church witnessed this year a wierd preoccupation and persecution against women nuns that no one in America really appreciates, except maybe white men over 70.  Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with old age- sometimes the only thing that comes with old age is arthritis, baldness, dementia and missing teeth.

   This church witnessed this year a wierd campaign of litigation against a government elected by the majority of catholics in the country because the platform stood more for what they understand the Holy Spirit to be about in America in the name of a completely overused and ill understood term "Freedom."

   This year the church took on governments they thought were too secular because they loved gays equally and thought the best interest of children was found in giving them to adults in loving families rather than institutions or subject to abortion.

   This church witnessed this year the flagellation of a priest who served loyally his order for 40 years being humiliatingly excommunicated because he stood by women who wanted to be priests. I don't have a dog in that fight and I don't care if women are catholic priests or not. Women Presbyterian ministers have been known to be quite effective evangelists. But I do care about the abysmal treatment and deliberate humiliation of any priest by snotty little Dominican theologians because they stand with women.

   And if you think that white men over 70 are all infallible- just look at what Roger Mahoney of LA got away with and continues to get away with. This year witnessed the listing in LA of all the very dirty deeds by priests there that went on for decades.

     Grace is incompatible with snotty little reprisals. Grace is not seen in expelling people from ministries, or participating in the life of the Spirit.

    The Mother church of the strongest woman in history needs to wake up and renew itself not with the old wine skins of oppression, derision, reprisals mysogeny and 'discipline' but with a bigger vision of LOVE, which is as John the Apostle advised, God.  God is Love. Petty snottiness, devils of doubt and suspicion masqued as litigation risk management are not from God and have no place in His Church.

    The greatest sin is blaspheming the Holy Spirit, and quenching it must come close.

If this Pope cannot embrace the fullness of the Spirit or Love all His children hiding behind Dominican DeNoias petty penalties and persecutions (are those people just sick?) then he needs to resign so the Holy Spirit can clean house. How can Jesus come in to a place he can't feel at home in?

  Maria Shriver on Facebook said that she believes the church needs to incorporate more women into the leadership - not the illusory token leadership- the real leadership. I agree. Start with making some families where women are in them. Start by letting priests have wives and their own children as they already do if they are episcopalians who switched and entered after marriage.

    The thred of what is considered holy in political life is not consistent with Grace or the Gospel. Some of the blogging of archdiocene PR priests is head scratchingly stupid.

     The church needs a Vatican III and serious fundamental reform. Before it kills off or drives out the best of their fans--or at least destroys their Faith in Church.

 

Look

what they found on the street:

--------musicians! click to hear

must see tv

you will thank me later

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151397745507577&set=vb.150082065062250&type=2&theater

And now for a little Comic Relief

And Why I don't live in the Burbs.

 Have you SEEN the show SUBURGATORY?

Like, uh, are your neighbors crazy as this? http://www.hulu.com/watch/450527

 Its not that I haven't had before a BMW, SAAB Convertible top of line cars and all my relatives drove Mercedes highest class there ridiculously is expensive cars, and its not that I have a DUI suspended license either (I don't)-thanks for guessing-, its that I don't WANT TO DRIVE TO THE SUBURBS.


Bougie, Bourgeois, totally impressed with their big alpha I'm the biggest Dog in the World of people who pay people to mow lawns, have you noticed the starving el salvadorans standing idle at the 7-11 waiting for anyone to pick them up to, I don't know, build you a porch?

How many massages and mani-pedis can you get in one week? Don't you have anything better to do than watch other people do your laundry?

     The American obsession with keeping up with the Joneses  is even more hilarious when foreigners come to this country to keep up with the American Joneses. I think I'm losing my foie gras lunch.

Game Changer

Completely Mooting the Lawsuits which should now be dismissed en massse- HHS Regulations Revisions announced today. Everybody wins. Now take your toys and go home. Fr Thomas Reese on the new rules: Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: "Thomas J. Reese" Date: February 1, 2013 12:02:33 PM EST To: "Thomas J. Reese" Subject: revised contraceptive mandate HHS and the administration have gone out of their way to resolve the concerns of religious institutions that object to covering contraceptives in their insurance programs. They fixed the four-part definition of religious employer by eliminating the confusing first three parts and relied on the traditional definition of churches in the Internal Revenue Code. They have also found creative ways to provide contraceptives to the employees of religious colleges and hospitals without the involvement of these institutions. Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Senior Fellow Woodstock Theological Center Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057-1137 Office: 202-687-1941 Cell: 646-573-4877 @ThomasReeseSJ http://www.facebook.com/thomas.j.reese.9 http://Woodstock.georgetown.edu/ http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/this_catholics_view/

THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU JAMES SALT OF THE CATHOLIC ALLIANCE. Find them on Facebook.


And as usual Michael Sean Winters has the straight scoop HERE----http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/sure-looks-miracle