(Part one of two)   I would pit my embolism and vaccinations for all the children in the world against our maintenance and development of nuclear weapons.—Mary Ann McGivern  “God looked at everything he had made” without nuclear weapons, “and he found it very good” (Genesis 1:31).

I don't think the Spirit is much in evidence when there is no interest or empathy for others—AnonAJ  sometimes even the Faithful forget “O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth” (Psalm 8:2ab), your name that enables such things as Medicaid and Medicare.  “You have given him rule over the works of your hands” (Psalm 8:7), meaning the Faithful are also in a position to misrule the works of the Lord.  “you nullify the word of God in favor of your” Republican “tradition that you have handed on” (Mark 7:13) to which conservative, Tea Party Republicans object.  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 330 Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I