A change of venue can be illuminating. For the last four weeks, I have been living in Boca Raton, Florida to support my mother’s recovery from a serious, but not life-threatening medical condition. I need not tell you South Florida might as well be halfway around the globe from its Northeast counterpart. This morning, however, … Read more
Oratory is a powerful tool. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address assured a war-torn nation America was an ideal that could survive a civil war. When Americans could have easily abandoned democracy and capitalism in the face of a global economic depression, Franklin Roosevelt urged them not to let their fears undermine the principles on which our … Read more
Your family and mine and all other animals have agreed to forget their differences and live in peace and friendship from now on forever. Just think of it! I simply cannot wait to embrace you! Do come down, dear friend, and let us celebrate the joyful event. ~”The Fox and the Cock”/Aesop This fable is … Read more
the capacity, especially of a particular person or animal, for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; relative aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, meanings, etc. the gathering or distribution of information, especially secret information ~Definitions of Intelligence/DICTIONARY.COM The most recent example of Donald Trump’s level of intelligence, or lack thereof, is his excitement … Read more
Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope when he speaks ex cathedra is preserved from the possibility of error on doctrine “initially given to the apostolic Church and handed down in Scripture and tradition”. ~Wikipedia The importance of this doctrine was never more evident than the recent conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor. Changes in the … Read more