22 January

This is Roe v Wade anniversary day. I think I would probably have missed it if Fr Fernando hadn't delivered one of his stem-winders at the noon Mass today. If there is anything in the whole anti-life circus -- abortion, fetal stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos, etc. -- that he failed to explain and condemn I can't imagine what it might be. When Fr Fernando gets excited about his topic he gets louder and speaks faster. Today he also lost track of the time; a half hour homily on a week day is not typical even for the Oblates. It was quite a piece of oratory. You shoulda been there.

But maybe you were at the March on Washington instead. Mind you, if you depended upon the local media in Los Angeles you wouldn't know it was going on. I saw nothing on it in the Times or the PT today. Google brought up a few articles, although you had to call it "Pro life March on Washington"; just "March on Washington" gives you 40 year old demonstrations for civil rights (which is what I thought pro life was, but never mind), something on gay rights, atheists, and assorted other causes. But nothing on Nellie Gray's troops, at least in the first batch of results. Oddly enough, the first report Google listed on the Pro life march was one from VOA. I don't think I've ever before seen VOA as a primary source for a news story from Google.