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  1. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

    Before any sale at Maralago, there would have to be an inventory – to see how many objects (and boxes) had been taken from the White House.

  2. 12 days ago on B.C.

    Years ago I saw someone with a tee shirt that read “The great thing about fishing is that even if you catch something, the day is still wasted.”

  3. about 2 months ago on Francis

    Which vows did you have in mind? Priests do not take vows of poverty. That would be some orders of monks and of nuns. That is why you never see a Franciscan in a fancy habit – always the same plain serviceable brown as all the other brothers.

  4. 3 months ago on Francis

    I am old enough to remember when Mass was in Latin and I rejoiced when it was changed to the local languages. I never learned to think in Latin so I never managed to pray in Latin. Even now, when my parish uses the Latin for some prayers during Lent, I can’t follow the prayers. I’m still trying to translate the first line while the leader is several phrases along. Very frustrating. Some Dioceses including Scranton, PA, used to allow some Latin masses in parishes that requested the option but even there it could not be the norm. I appreciate that the Latin has a beauty to it but so does the English if we consider what it really means and don’t just recite it without putting out heart into the prayer. Note: Wojtyla was cannonized as Saint John Paul II. It was Pope John XXIII who started the Councils in the 1960s.

  5. 6 months ago on Frank and Ernest

    Actually, ambidextrous.

  6. 6 months ago on Frank and Ernest

    It is somewhat ironic that he pointed to observation of the world as the source of knowledge but then didn’t do any experiments to verify his observations.

  7. 6 months ago on Francis

    Allowing that popes have always been chosen from among human beings, each brings some strengths and some weaknesses. John XXIII (23rd) was the one who started opening the Catholic Church with the Vatican Council. Alas, he died before completing the task but he opened the windows. His successors were more conservative. John Paul II had been a bishop in Poland and much of his attention was on liberating communist countries. Francis reminds me of John 23rd in many ways. I pray that he survives long enough that his pastoral approach will prosper among his successors.

  8. 8 months ago on Non Sequitur

    Medical studies indicate that DST is harmful to our bodies. Also, in the winter, we are asking our children to wait for the bus and travel to school in the dark. Both of those increase the risk of accidents. Then there are all the studies about teens and sleep. All in all DST has been a bad idea from the get-go.

  9. 10 months ago on Frank and Ernest

    I have a black and white copy of this in my collected strips from some years ago.

  10. about 1 year ago on Frank and Ernest

    They could answer in French, OUI