Topsy and Tuptim Discuss Querida Amazonia Part III

Topsy and Tuptim just finished planting three dozen daffodil bulbs in random spots at Sacred Heart of Jesus cemetery. They stack all their gardening implements in a bin and stow it in the back of Topsy's Yukon. Topsy retrieves a picnic basket with a thermos, cups, and sandwiches which they take to a bench in the baby garden.

Topsy: (Filling a cup with coffee and handing it to Tuptim...) I love to sit in this section of the cemetery with all the little baby saints. They died in their innocence. What powerful intercessors they must be for all of us, such humble little ones resting in the arms of Our Lady. One of my grandchildren who died before birth is buried here. A precious little one I look forward to meeting some day.

Topsy and Tuptim Meet to Discuss Querida Amazonia -- Part II

Are those bitter herbs from the Amazon to
remind us that Lent is coming?

See Part I

Topsy and Tuptim have a date to discuss the latest Pope Francis exhortation, Querida Amazonia. They meet at the coffee shop and Topsy, who generally has her coffee with a large dose of half and half, orders an espresso strong and black. She carries her coffee and a muffin to the table where Tuptim is sitting thumbing through her highlighted copy of the exhortation.

Topsy: Hi lady! (She sits.) I'd rather have a good stiff drink to get through this, but instead I'll drink my coffee your way -- dark, strong, and bitter.

Hold the Applause: An Analysis of Pope Francis' Post Synodal Exhortation -- Part I

I've seen a lot of chatter about how relieved people are that Pope Francis did not approve married priests for the Amazon in his post synodal Apostolic Exhortation.

Well, I've read it and frankly I found it alarming and hypocritical on many fronts.

But before I get into that let me remind you to......

PUT THE APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION, QUERIDA AMAZONIA, IN CONTEXT: