HEAVEN: PROBABLY NOT YOUR NEXT STOP

An All Souls Day meditation. Published in the Umatuna November, 2012.

Anyone (Catholic) near my age can probably remember our mothers admonishing us to “offer it up for the poor souls in purgatory” whenever we complained about some pain or discomfort. It’s not something we hear much anymore. In fact, not only has the idea of “offer it up” generally disappeared from the list of routine Catholic expressions, it seems  “the poor souls” has to.  CONTINUED

AN ALL SOUL'S DAY OPPORTUNITY

By coincidence, regular Catholic basher, Diane Iglesias, just happens to have another "Catholic basher" letter in today's PDN, timed perfectly to bash the scripture upon which the Catholic Church bases its practice of praying for the dead on the very day when the Catholic Church specifically prays for the dead.

How about that? 

That's even better timing than the PDN's coincidental timing of the printing of the David Mills letter bashing Joseph Lastimoza with the PDN's headline story bashing Joseph Lastimoza. 

Every year at this time I anticipate the usual bashing of the Catholic practice of praying for the dead, and, once again, this year, thanks to Diane Iglesias and the keen editorial timing of the PDN, I was not disappointed. (In fact, I should have put money on it!)