Suffice it to say, folks, the last few days haven't made for the easy family downtime this scribe was hoping to have... but such is this work in what's become a defining moment.
Wrenching as it is on some levels, what's unfolding over these days is no less necessary – still, it's worth recalling that the resolution won't come thanks to any social-media truculence, but as the outcome of ecclesial discernment and process.
Far from the ongoing ideological warfare in the open, that movement is already – quietly – underway... and as the scene happens to be these pages' wheelhouse, it'd be a grace to report this moment as it deserves.
Sure, that's a nightmare of a job description for an Italian going into August. If it's going to be done, though, much as the prayers and kind words from many have been a priceless reassurance, before anything else, this shop has its bills to pay – as ever, these pages only keep coming your way by means of your support.
-30-In a North Jersey church, you’ll find this window – JPII and McCarrick at the Giants Stadium altar in 1995... after these weeks, just one of the many things we can never see the same way as before.— Rocco Palmo (@roccopalmo) July 29, 2018
Lord, have mercy and heal us – help us repair Your house... again. pic.twitter.com/XAod4JYbu7