Bits & Bytes

CATHOLIC NEWS ROUND UP: [11:24] – Stories include the ICE report; Catholic Charities revenue surge; Trump receives a brown scapular and blessing; Kamala is skipping the Al Smith dinner; FBI whistleblower’s Catholic testimony; Secret Service whistleblowers says Feds have deliberately pulled resources from Trump’s detail; Judo champ has been banned from competition for making a Sign of the Cross; Half of Catholics now say they believe in the Real Presence. Re: the last one – A previous poll showed only one-third held to the dogmatic faith leading the U.S. Bishops to embark on a year of education. Our parish was one of the first to get a visit and homily by the bishop. His message was so strong and clear that I was in tears.

HEAD COVERING: [6:43] – An interesting interpretation of 1 Cor 11:4–5 based on clues from Roman statuary in Corinth.

HUSH MONEY: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bOSfyHQzxrU … unless your BP is too high.

PEAK TROLL: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0rCMpgAIyc0 to see what some Republicans did after Dems bought a billboard. And CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k-ICQ3sn2X4 for a golden oldie from Ronnie.

STRIPPER: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IhfkQ0fPVn8 to hear a spot on comparison.

TRUST THE SCIENCE: “I hear scoffers mocking Christians for praying to an “invisible Man in the sky” – as though God’s invisibility makes his existence laughable. Yet modern science has discovered that 95% of the “observable cosmos” is invisible. And that an unobservable cosmos beyond that is 100% invisible. In short: Invisibility is the principal hallmark of reality.” – Michael Guillén, Ph.D.

WALK AWAY: [14:29] – Another good one.