Random thoughts on a Friday morning

•  I think somebody told poor Cardinal Burke that there were videos purporting to be of him denouncing Pope Leo and he panicked.   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I think Will Knowland has missed something in his analysis.   If a man is hooked on, oh say, anime porn or any of the more unspeakable forms of visual carnality, no living woman can compete with that. His wife may be dutiful, but she does not have four foot long blue hair that levitates, a bosom that defies gravity and the limits of  human bone and musculature  or a 15 inch waist. 
  
  I know a woman who has 8 children. She's divorced. To put it delicately, she and her husband were clearly doing what it takes to beget and bear issue within their  marriage but it wasn't enough to keep the marriage in tact.
  
   Is a wife to blame for a pornography addiction that began when her husband was a boy? Is she any more responsible for his sin than the woman who found herself married to a man who chose her in hopes that she would magically change him?  Mr. Knowland, may not recall this part of the Bible, but when Adam tried to weasel out of trouble by going, "God, it was that Woman, You sent me that made me sin," Our Father had none of it. Eve was justly punished for her own sin but Adam had to face up to his as well.
  
  
  
  
  
•  Henry VIII left the Church in order to marry his mistress. 500 years later Charles III comes to the Vatican with his concubine to pray with the pope. History with all its tragedy and farce is amazing.
  
   St. Margaret Clitheroe pray for us.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If you're Gen X, pat yourself on the back. You survived the Satanic Panic, the Backmasking on records obsession , the D&D suspicions, the Everybody is Going to Get AIDS hysteria, the Swine Flu and Legionnaire's scare, Acid Rain, Killer Bees, the Computers Are Going to Destroy US,  and the Nuclear Power Is Gonna Kill Us All fears. 
  Brothers and Sisters, if you've ever had to talk a member of the elder or younger generations down because they're freaked out over something they saw on CNN, I salute you.