The Wandering Heretic

I was shocked to find out that the Roman Catholic priest and writer, Andrew M. Greely, was seriously injured in a freak accident last Friday, November 7th. According to a report in the Chicago Sun Times, the priest had taken a cab to the L station in Chicago to return home after a lecture. As [...]

My last thoughts on the election; or at least my last published thoughts for awhile. I’m going to regroup and concentrate on what is really important: the Church as the Body of Jesus Christ and what that means in terms of perspective and daily life. Still, the election brings up some curious results. First of [...]

We, the United States citizens, have elected the first declared radically left wing President. It does not matter if the popular vote in favor of this change was 52% of the populace; this country works in terms of the electoral college and on those terms it was a mandate. Those in power will act on [...]

This was my hardest election ever to vote. As I noted before, I do not think it is an option not to vote; however, this election was the first to temp me in that non-direction. I voted against rather than for a candidate. McCain ran a sloppy campaign because frankly even he didn’t believe the [...]