Disinterested parenting: Bl. Margaret of Castello

-source-

When she was about twenty, Margaret's parents took her to a shrine in the Franciscan church in Castello, where miracles were reportedly being wrought, to pray for a cure for her birth defects. When no miracle happened, they abandoned her. - source

Memo to parents: In the development of masculine identity it is important to be good in sports. (Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons)

Wrestling is especially good for the guys, said Coach Hastert.

Encourage boys to play sports and do boys stuff,

you know, just to make sure they do not turn out gay...

we want them big and strong manly men.

If you get your son into sports at an early age, he won't be a queer.

Today former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his attempt to bribe a victim by illegally withdrawing funds to pay him to keep silent.  The judge called him a 'serial child molester' - but the boys-to-young-men victims were not children ...  Hmmmmmmm.  How very queer.

Hastert couldn't be charged with sex abuse because the statute of limitations expired.

Don't say it is child sexual abuse - in this case it really is queer.  Boys in the 1950's and '60's used to be shown films in Health Class about homosexual predators who went after teenage boys - some gay guys do that - there used to be gay slang for it.  Hastert knew what he was doing.  Today, no one will admit to such categorizations and they insist upon calling it pedophilia.  It's not.  Hastert obviously liked teen boys and young men - and liked giving them oral sex.  It doesn't get much gayer than that.  Guys like him don't want a femme boy to have back door sex with - they want a masculine boy.

Get your terms straight - and tell your kids to watch out for their coach.

October is Domestic Violence Month. Just in time for the Synod on the Family.

I wonder if you can buy greeting cards to send?

Always use soft foods and liquids when hitting in the face.

October is filled with holidays, huh?

I have fond memories of how my parents handled things.  After many years of domestic violence, and great expense for emergency care and glasses replacement for my mom, my dad stopped hitting and would grab the glasses from my mother's face and pop the lenses out.  Then he'd slam her head into the wall.  One Christmas we came over and though she was black-eyed and puffy, and the phone was pulled out of the wall and there was a huge hole in the sheet-rock, her glasses were just fine.

"What happened to the wall mom?"

"Nothing."

And everything was fine after that.

“There are always fights in a marriage, aren’t there? Sometimes plates fly. You’re laughing, but it’s the truth." - Pope Francis

Isn't that cute?  Isn't that true?

"Just be careful when you fight, family - don't create a lot of unnecessary expense.  We love you!" - Bob and Penny Lord.

Guys, if you're unmarried and still living in the basement,

be kind to your mothers.

Pope Francis Invites 18 Married Couples to Attend October's Synod of Bishops on the family.

That's extraordinary - no actually, last year's synod was...

In the meantime, Flo's Family will be speaking at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia when the Pope visits.  That will be interesting.

I'm thrilled there are so many dysfunctional families invited - if only my mom could be alive to see this.  She was married and divorced and remarried to my dad and lived an incredibly unhappy life.  Although she died reconciled to the Church.  She refused to seek an annulment, though her former seminarian brothers insisted she had perfect grounds to do so.  Instead she suffered and made life miserable for those close to her.

That said, the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia will be hosting Ron Belgau -
the only openly gay person invited to speak at the World Meeting.  I think he will be attending with his mother.  That should be interesting.

I couldn't imagine attending an event like that with my mother.  I shudder just thinking about it.

“This is a very, very large issue to try to tackle in one hour long panel discussion,” Belgau said with a laugh, and a bit of understatement, during a phone interview from his home in Washington state.

Belgau, a writer and lecturer, will be presenting, together with his mother, a panel on “Homosexuality in the Family,” one of dozens of workshops and panels — most focused on safer and more orthodox topics — that will draw some 18,000 attendees and volunteers to the four-day event. (The papal visit itself is expected to draw as many as 1.5 million pilgrims and tourists to the city.)

Belgau admitted that “there’s a lot of pressure” in trying to address the many aspects of such a contentious issue, but he says that he is determined that his remarks not be “a speech just to Catholics who agree with me.”

That shouldn’t be a problem, given that Catholics on both right and left have frequently criticized him.

Many liberals are uncomfortable with Belgau’s commitment to being celibate, which he sees as the ideal for gays who, like himself, follow a “traditional Christian sexual ethic” that says homosexual activity is sinful. - Huffpo

Nothing wrong with that.

I especially love this gem from Belgau's interview:

There are “certain people who say we shouldn’t talk about this but who almost can’t stop” talking about it, Belgau said. They insist on giving their own views on homosexuality, he said, “but then if I try to talk about my own experience they say, ‘We shouldn’t be talking about this.’” - ibid

So true - and ironic.

Mom.

I'd love to see some really dysfunctional families speak at the World Meeting, as well as at the synod.  It could be a hoot.  Totally unscripted, sort of like some Catholic bloggers spewing the F-word right and left, calling out the Sodomites in their families, complaining they aren't welcome because they don't feel welcome, and they want their trans-son-daughter to be able to use whatever bathroom he-she wants to use.  Gay guys with their fashionable mothers, who are only too happy to have a Rick Castle type guy as their son - they go to bars together and dress to kill for Mass on Sundays.  It could be a movie.

As it is, I highly doubt that the people who really need it will be at either event.

Good news: Hotel rooms are going cheap in Philadelphia.

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