Father-in-law is still alive. It turns out he was in hypoglycemic shock thanks to a nurse screw up.
If you think I was overreacting in the last posting, keep in mind that I got a call from Dr. Wife that “I think my dad is dying…”
Dying isn’t like in the movies. I don’t recall seeing such a yo-yo up and down mentioned anywhere except in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. “I’m not dead…” “Yes you are.”
My father-in-law, whom I wrote about here, is in his last few hours we think. Like Terri Schiavo, he has no living will. His wife is no help since she is in shock. So the responsibility comes down to my Wife, his daughter, Dr. Wife…
He’s giving up fighting and there is nothing more we can do. Pulmonary Edema is not pretty so the wife tells me.
It’s been a long time since I saw the effects of Death, since when I was a kid actually. Another brilliant mind, a veteran of the Greatest Generation, a loving parent and grandparent passes on.
All that knowledge. All that experience. Gone…
Hard to believe but true… Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee.
Bredesen, a former mayor of Nashville, believes his party has “somehow gotten itself divorced” from the blue-collar constituency it has always relied on for presidential success: “I’ve always felt the Democratic party was a kind of alliance between the academics and intellectuals and working-class men and women. I think what happened is that in my lifetime, the academics won.”
Yep…
Christopher Hitchens is saying what many of us are thinking:
A church that has allowed no latitude in its teachings on masturbation, premarital sex, birth control, and divorce suddenly asks for understanding and “wiggle room” for the most revolting crime on the books.
Pope John Paul 2 is dead, and while I respect him for many things that he accomplished my opinion of him will always be colored by his most glaring failure:
To uncover, punish and stamp out pedophilia from the ranks of the priesthood.
Growing up Catholic I had always heard whispers amongst my peers about this priest or that one. I didn’t understand the gravity of these rumors until I became an adult and saw the wrecked lives these “men of Christ” left in their wake.
Instead of destroying this culture of pedophilia, Pope John Paul 2 continued to cover it up. No finer example of this cover up is protecting Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston by helping him flee possible persecution in the scandal that has bankrupted the Boston archdiocese. This is a sin which the pontiff carries with him to the afterlife - should it exist.
Pope John Paul 2 leaves behind a church whose credibility has been seriously weakened in Western Europe and the United States, and one which his successor must grapple with. He may have been a man of principle, but this scandal leaves me wondering what principles he was a man of.
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