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Although personal I will let you know the following:

1. 2. Five children with four boys. Three married, two with children, third one trying for children but married only awhile ago. Fourth son is probably getting engaged right as we speak. Youngest daughter was in love but had heart broken. She is playing the field but wants nothing more than find the right man and have lots of kids.

3. I happen to be a lapsed Catholic. I do love the Church and loved growing up in Catholic schools for 12 years. I have taken time to read a lot of the theology and the more I read the more perfect the Church sounds—yes, I know there is corruption but all bureaucracies with humans have it.

4. I married a non Catholic so he was the one who decided to end reproduction, although I would have had more children. We were married in the Church, though, and we raised our children Catholic. I refused to take the pill—I thought it unnatural and toxic—not that I agreed with the Church at that time. Wouldn’t allow surgery either. Thought that was unnatural also—long before I studied any Aristotle or Thomism.

5. I do not worry about homosexuals. That is a ridiculous statement. I have compassion for them because I understand that they have a heavy cross to bear. Many of them probably had a very sad, early childhood, and, for me, that is extremely upsetting. (Saw Truman recently, made me cry.) Children are so vulnerable and such a precious gift from God. I think that damaging children in their early years is the most horrendous sin on earth. (I truly think Jesus thinks the same thing.)

6. Guaranteed that everyone is a sinner, so I am no exception. But I do look to my soul as all people do when they get closer to death and I am probably going to eventually join the Church again when I get a permanent residence. Then I plan to become very active in the Church and preach fire and brimstone to my kids!!! (Just kidding on that last part—they would commit me).