Francis by Patrick J. Marrin for February 24, 2025

We will miss you, Francis.

I’m praying for him. I’m not even Catholic, I just respect and admire him that much.

Amen to that!

Well, tyrants all die, at any rate, even if they don’t fall.

Francis, Gandhi is correct, the way of truth and love always wins, and the RC Church has been a tyrant on the matter of women’s rights, and it has seemed invincible at times. However, the Holy Spirit will one day win. We will realize ordained, female RC priests, and the old Curia will fall………………………..Francis, it’s not loo late for this important matter of freedom to start with you…………….one raspy comment to the public.

Too bad that what Francis has to say is relevant only to people of Roman Catholic persuasion, and not even all of those.

Worse still is that a greater man than Francis, Bartholomew, is getting much less worldwide attention.

King Solomon’s Ring: “This too shall pass”. Both the good and the bad.

Every single tyrant has always fallen. But so has every single good person in the world. Death takes us all. It is about the time after that matters. How a person is remembered and affects the world later. Fascism is on the rise again and I am so disgusted that my country is now a fascist state. I always thought we were safe. History is going to remember.

And twenty-five years from now, high school students will be taking mid-terms about what is going on. I only pray the world is still here.

I’m a lapsed Catholic; for him, however, I will pray.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — (not actually said by) Gandhi