Roncalli Rants!

Some Rants About Roncalli and the Irish Church

Priests

As different as chalk and Cheese, as they say – These two priests of My Childhood Cool, hip and trendy Holy oil still wet on you. You wrestled us, boasting Fast Mass, Stale Beer, Faint Read more…

RETURN OF THE BUMBLE BEE

I rejoice in the new cockiness of crowThe brazenness of blackbirdThe dips and peaks of birdsongThe warm sweet perfume of wallflowerOn a window box at my doorAll this I had stopped noticingOr at least not Read more…

REQUIEM FOR NORMAL

We lost you quicker than we could ever have imagined,little or no farewell,your going left us breathless,more brutal than we ever would have thought.Gone with you, the comfort of familiar.We now know not what we Read more…