I read the news today, oh boy.

Posted on Sunday 30 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly
  • How mold is taken as a miracle, another example in an endless series throughout history;
  • Short items about Trump, tariffs, and auto prices; lying about American history; how “make America healthy again” means the opposite; how a vaccine expert has been fired from the FDA; and how DOGE wants to privatize everything.

And in the news today, more lies, more reversals, from the Trump administration. He’s changed his mind. He doesn’t remember what he said. “Witch hunt” is one of his favorite terms, from his limited vocabulary, to dismiss any accusation against his band of incompetents. I suspect he was no idea what the actual witch hunts were about. It’s exhausting to try to keep up. We’re living in an upside-down, Alice in Wonderland world. And yet still he has fans.

Let me post this. It’s more significant that it might seem at first glance.

Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, 29 Mar 2025: It’s mold, not a miracle: The Catholic Church’s latest eucharistic blunder, subtitled “Another viral Catholic miracle turns out to be just bacteria and wishful thinking”

Once again, after suggesting a miracle had occurred and there was tangible proof, an investigation has discovered… that there was a perfectly sensible, scientific, non-miraculous explanation for it.

About a month ago, an X/Twitter account posted a story involving a “Eucharistic Miracle” at St. Anthony of Padua in Morris, Indiana. The account relayed a story a woman had just sent to her family, explaining that a consecrated communion wafer had accidentally been dropped on the floor. Instead of throwing it away, a priest put it in water and “left it in the tabernacle to dissolve.” He did the same thing to a second wafer that dropped later.

When a staffer went to check on those wafers the next day to see if they had dissolved, there were “spots of blood!” The woman added: “When I saw it today it looked like a very very thin piece of skin with blood on it.”

To those of us who’ve been around the block, so to speak, this is just another in an endless history of gullible people seeing things they want to believe. Perceiving things they don’t understand and mapping them into the limited fantasy world they’ve been taught to believe in from childhood.

In this case, it’s about mold. And similar explanations, we’re sure, explain all the so-called “miracles” from throughout history. Get a grip. Get real. But it won’t ever happen. Humans can’t bear much reality

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I’ll reduce some other items to headlines.

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