The state and the sacrament of marriage

posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
I don't get it. I got married at 19 by a justice of the peace and went off to Vietnam. My Catholic wife could only receive communion if she promised we would not live together as husband and wife (have sex) before we were married in the church so ...

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....a passenger in his car, also lost her life.

posted over 2 years ago, updated 5 minutes later | 2 comments
One of my wife's high school boyfriends lost his granddaughter in a car crash early Sunday morning. We have never met her, we don't know her mother and I haven't talked to her grandfather in more than 45 years. My wife stays in touch with him via ...

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If I were a rich man.......

posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
Sure I'd love to be really rich but I've long ago reconciled myself to the reality that's not very likely. Actually "not very likely" itself is an overly optimistic slant on "no chance in hell." I don't even cling to the hope of winning the lotter...

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