If the Catholic bishops can be as passionate in fighting corruption as they are in opposing birth control, this predominantly Roman Catholic country will be a much better place. Think of the impact of an announcement from the Church that it will withhold Holy Communion from all the liars, cheats, thieves, murderers, rapists and the immoderately greedy in this government. Okay, that might decimate the ranks of the national leadership, and reduce the temporal power that the bishops love to wield in this country. But it could endear the bishops to more of the ordinary faithful Catholics who do not make a big show or pretense of piousness to earn brownie points with the Church. Instead the bishops are withholding communion from politicians who are supporting birth control and family planning, branding theme as “anti-life” and supporters of abortion. The Church must be taking pointers in intellectual dishonesty from this administration. Read the rest of this entry »

She thinks about the one-who-got-away. And what she could’ve she done to make him stay. She wonders whether it was the right thing to do—to keep distance, to accept that he isn’t right for her. He makes her laugh and treats her with respect, she thinks that they hit it off just great. But society dictates it isn’t right, to take what isn’t yours. She decides she’d find someone as funny as him, as spontaneous as him, as adorable as him. She heaves a sigh, closes her eyes, and says good-bye…in her mind. Maybe not quite ready to say it out loud.

I wonder if she misses him or thinks about him a lot. I wonder if she thinks of the what-ifs and if she’d been more daring and less considerate. Would things have been different? I admire her, though, for her integrity and her self-control. I wish I could tell her she’d meet someone better. But I simply couldn’t. Because I really do not know.

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