To: Utah Binger
Reprise - right on target - “we’ll decide who to give money to”
Read about Father Baker - Our Lady of Victory in Buffalo.
He persuaded the blue collar Buffalonians to give 10 cents per week . - voluntarily - and he turned those suckers (the ladies of the night/ the young cads, etc. around.
No government money attached -
To: stonehouse01
We will be setting the date for the picnic with Jim Robinson once we can all agree on a date. Last July we had a nice turnout. Our sunrise service included music and sharing of thoughts. When I introduced and thanked Jim I had a Boehner moment.
4,178 posted on
09/19/2011 6:51:04 AM PDT by
Utah Binger
(Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
To: stonehouse01
Are you from that area?
I had the great pleasure of visiting Buffalo last summer for the Catholic Daughters of the Americas national convention.
One of our day trips was to see the shrine where he is buried and the school he built.
The truly remarkable part of his story is that he was not young when he began his work there.
To: stonehouse01
He persuaded the blue collar Buffalonians to give 10 cents per week . - voluntarily - and he turned those suckers (the ladies of the night/ the young cads, etc. around. No government money attached -
And now; OUR government can't even run a cathouse and turn a profit!
4,194 posted on
09/19/2011 8:51:25 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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