On the Eve of My Daughter's Baptism

May the wee lass be blessed to the brim:
With the Love that comes only from Him.
With her fam'ly and friends
May her love have no ends.
For her free gift let's all sing a hymn.

Political Party Lament

Way back those darn Donkeys were slavers;
With some condoms they're real misbehavers.
NOW abortion's a right-
They will scream through the night
That those Cath'lics sure are some face-savers.

Republicans favor the rich-
Not just rich but like filthy rich rich.
Maybe 'bortion's a ploy,
And I'm just a toy,
But th'alternative's worse than jock itch.

They Know Not What They Do

1,800 Carry Cross of Abortion on Good Friday at Minn. Planned Parenthood (Lifesitenews.com)

[Pro-Life Action Ministries executive director Brian] Gibson reported that "Planned Parenthood (PP) aided in our time of prayer with scores of supporters coming who cheered the death of the innocent, jeered and mocked us, providing a fuller experiential glimpse of what Jesus endured for the salvation of the world which includes those PP supporters."

"My prayer for this event is that all who attend are enriched by God with an experience that aids them in a fuller understanding of what Jesus endured on the day He died for our salvation," said Gibson.

"And that we see the reality of the great harm abortion is to all of us, the need for repentance and forgiveness in Christ, and the need to continue this all-important work of stopping this evil."

Austin Pregnancy Resource Centers Forced to Post Sign Saying No Abortions
(Second city after Baltimore to enact such a law)

As they looked at the screaming red faces,
The love of the the Christ left its traces
Of thoughts of His love
That still come from above.
Yet the attack continued without basis.

Dawkins and Quakers

I know its a little late, but...
Outraged atheists lose faith in Dawkins as he censors website

The Christians that Dawkins surmounts (he thinks)
Still influence him when he announced (me thinks)
That the vitr'ol must end.
As if Quakers would lend
To a war that just can't be renounced.

Dear Dawkins owes much to the Church
In the 'land that was 'round at his birth.
As the Quakers must thank
The young men in the tank
Who just know what their freedom is worth.

Note:
I don't support ev'ry darn war
Just just ones - not one stinking more.
But some must be fought
This is more that a thought
Just think about Hitlers off shore.

Will Archbishop Gomez Reform LA RCC?

Condescending editorial, mean-spirited column greet Archbishop Gomez in Los Angeles

Some also are bound to be wary of his close association with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput [in youtube embed below], his mentor in Denver and one of the church's most stridently conservative voices. Chaput, for example, feels that Catholic office-holders who cast pro-choice votes ought to be denied Communion. He recently gave an address in Texas in which he argued that John F. Kennedy was wrong in insisting on separation of church and state.

In California, a staunchly Democratic state where one out of every four people is Catholic, that sort of confrontational leadership could have serious consequences.
-Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput in Youtube embed above

Will Archbishop Gomez Reform LA RCC?

This conservative is ready and willing
To bring to the Church something thrilling:
A faith in the Lord
And a flock that's on board
With her rock who's in Rome. (That's God willing.)

A Larger Family Size

Archdiocese Sees Record Year For New Members

Most leave due to some kind of hurt
From Priests, some kind of sin, or some sort.
But Most come to join
By the Truth that they find
In the Church Christ has made without tort.

It is not in the works that are done
Or the functions that are actu'ly quite fun.
But the acts of the head
To Whom she is wed
That the Church will be healed and be won.

Let us pray that the Church will endure
Through the Doc of the sick, not the pure.
For in failure and doubt
All it's members will shout
For the prize that's been won to be sure.

Resurrection Thought

His disciples were very afraid;
From most ev'rything all of them caved.
But after He rose
They now all suppose
That ev'rything will be remade.