Current Events
2018 IN REVIEW – The Solemnity of Christ the King
How Should We Choose Our U.S. Senators? – Return to the Brett Winterble Show
With the accusations against Judge Roy Moore in the U.S. Senate Race in Alabama, Brett Winterble and I discuss how the Founding Fathers intended when selecting U.S. Senators, and how it was changed in the 17th Amendment to the Constitution.
500th ANNIVERSARY OF PROTESTANTISM!! — on the Brett Winterble Show
Is Donald Trump anointed by God?
“God’s Anointed”
Homily – 29th Sunday of the Year (A)
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God works through our leaders, from the ancient kings of Israel, to the pagan kings who ruled over the Jews, to the Popes chosen throughout Church History, to the Presidents of the United States, whose influence affects world events as well as the presence, actions and attitudes toward the Church in the U.S.
Fr. Bill talks about how “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, but to God the things that are God’s” is an affirmation that our leaders are called by God, and have an obligation in that calling.
P.S. Houston won! and will face the Dodgers!
The Shooting in Las Vegas
The World did Not End on Sept. 23, 2017
Evangelicals asserted that recent Hurricanes in Texas, Louisiana and Florida and Earthquakes in Mexico were precursers to the End of the World, and that that the world would end on September 23, 2017 because certain cosmic phenomena were to be in line with various passages of the Book of Revelation.
I returned to the Brett Winterble Show, KFMB AM 760 San Diego, on Friday, Sept 22, the day before “The End” to discuss Apocalyptic Literature, the nature and purpose of its symbols and how The Book of Revelation not only spoke to the people of its time, but continues to speak to universal themes today — none of which invovle the “End of the World as We Know It”.
History and the Canaanite Woman
Homily (audio)
20th Sunday of the Year
“History and the Canaanite Woman”
With the news of demonstrations and calls to remove statues of historical figures, it is important to know one’s history, regardless of which side you are on in the debate. Jesus cure of the daughter of the Canaanite Woman speaks to this issue in ways that may surprise you.
Nominated Justice Gorsuch and Past Decisions of the Supreme Court
My latest visit to the Brett Winterble Show in which I discuss the Supreme Court as one of three co-equal branches of Government. How have past decisions demonstrated a fallible court, rather than a court of final authority in the United States – hence the need for two other branches to balance out the court.
