Tom Scotus

I remember, as a boy, looking up into the sky, fresh after a summer rain, and seeing a magnificent rainbow. It looked like a mystical ladder to heaven, a wonderful thing to behold. 

Not so long ago, Freemasonic lodges in nations such as the United States and Canada were teaming with members. Today, most are suffering the same fate as those of other fraternities such as the Odd Fellows, the Elks, and the Moose Hall — aging memberships and declining numbers. 

When I was a teenager, I thought nobody was cooler than Hugh Hefner. He was rich. He was famous. He hosted hip celebrity parties. He was a sharp dresser, was articulate, had a great sense of humour, and was tall, dark and handsome. 

Sometimes, when I am tempted to despair, I imagine taking off my cross permanently and renouncing the faith.

When I was 10 years old, I watched an episode of Schoolhouse Rock on TV that featured the number three. “Three is a magic number,” sang the show’s narrator.

Many years ago, a cashier was serving me at a video rental store. Seemingly out of nowhere, she said, “If you wear a smile for an umbrella, you’ll get water in your face.”

In the beginning, God created man and woman, the first human marriage. He said, “Let us make mankind in our image…” (Genesis 1:26), alluding to His own mysterious unity. From the Father, united with the Son, emanates the Holy Spirit who, in turn, binds the Church to God. This is a “sexual” mystery, in the purest sense.

It seems that Sodom and Gomorrah are making a come back. God destroyed these cities because of their gross sexual immorality: fornication, homosexuality and, I believe, pedophilia. I use this order because, I think, that’s the progression a society follows towards total depravity.

For decades, I’ve known that the Catholic Church was infected with modernists, heretics and communists. I’ve also known that Freemasons had infiltrated the highest levels of the Church hierarchy.

Brenda had sex with more than 30 men over the years, but she’ll only admit to about six. She is now 60 years old and is fornicating with a divorced man that she doesn’t love. Still, she sometimes chastises her ex-boyfriend Bob, on moral grounds. Bob is married but he still occasionally visits her, looking for sex.