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The real question is: what took them so long?

You sound just like Martha and Mary scolding Jesus: "Lord if you had been here, my brother would never have died." It's all His fault. It always is.

You sound just like Martha and Mary...

No making some people happy. People complain if you don't show up, people complain if you do...

Actually, my remarks were extremely mild and well winthin the bounds of a practical political discussion.

After all, the Vatican doesn't delude itself over Planned Parenthood. It's hard to understand why they have been so slow in condemning and defunding UNICEF and other globalist organizations. You might like to be their apologists. I won't. The Vatican is basically doing something long overdue and isn't too happy having to admit what a lot of the rest of us knew all along. At least they finally wised up after having given their imprimatur to their enemies for many years. Hopefully, they'll be aggressive in denouncing the U.N. and its full agenda.

I believe the passage you are referring to is from John 11:21-27 and is quite applicable to the upcoming feast of All Souls Day. I read something that is a very good interpretation of that passage. At the time of the death of her brother Lazarus, Martha was angry. While her sister and other friends and relations mourned the death of Lazarus, Martha marched right out to the edge of town to let Jesus have a piece of her mind. "If you had come when we called you, my brother Lazarus would not be dead," she said angrily.

How often we all feel like that. It doesn't matter if someone we miss died yesterday or twenty years of yesterdays ago-sometimes we just want to let God have it. We miss them. It hurts. Things just are not the same. And if only, if only, if only.

In fact, Martha became the first person in John's gospel to proclaim that "yes," Jesus is the Christ, and even as they speak, she knows her brother lives.