Random thoughts on a humid afternoon.

• I just read about some Catholic people who were conned by a  person who runs a purported charity.  It's very sad and I won't go into it except to offer a word of caution. Folks, when someone asks you for donations or investor money you can't just accept their pitch. If they are claiming to be a charity then you need to look up their Form 990. If they are a business then you need to go to the Secretary of State site for the state this person's entity is located in.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I noticed multiple people were wearing face masks at Mass. My first thought was "Not again!" I normally don't care if someone is masking or not as long as they don't try to force it on me but  the timing made me a little nervous. So many people were mentally crushed by Covid and never recovered. I hate to see people falling for Hantavirus and Ebola panic. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• When it comes making an argument for their position, the greatest enemy  Sedevacantists have is themselves. A few years ago a man posted a Tweet that I thought was  stupid but largely inoffensive. A sedevacantist-minded woman  replied by implying that the man's bedroom activity was unnatural and she got so scatological I decided to mute her. Up until that day I enjoyed reading her comments but this was shocking and completely over the top. It was like dropping a bomb on a racoon digging through the trash.  A few weeks ago a Sede insulted the appearance of a man's family member. That was uncalled for. Another Sede went berserker on a guy who posted his weak theological opinion by calling the man pedophile adjacent, ugly, Hell-bound  and possessing a sub-normal IQ. 
  
  There are a lot of people who have been looking around their parishes, at the bishop and the stuff that comes out of Pope Leo's mouth and are wondering what the Hell is going on. They may or may not accept the Recognize and Resist argument but they won't ever listen to anything the Sedes have to say because too many of the online adherents go for the jugular vein with a rusty razor  when a rhetorical slap would have done.