MEDITATIONS ON THE FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS

A CRY IS HEARD IN RAMAH (published in the U Matuna 12/30/12)

"It is important to recall that each of these monsters began, not as monsters, but as social reformers, as promisers of jobs and a “chicken in every pot”: the Thousand Year Reich (Hitler), the Five Year Plan (Stalin), and the Cultural Revolution (Mao)."

FLEEING THE NEW HERODS (published in the U Matuna 12/25/11)

"The Catholic Encyclopedia estimates that given the population of Bethlehem at the time, Herod probably killed several dozen children. In the United States, abortion kills about 3 children per minute, so we probably kill an equal number of “Innocents” every 15-20 minutes. On Guam, we do that every 40 days or so. And history casts Herod as a monster?"