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Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Joe, thank you for the article on Ivermectin. There has been much controversy over drugs like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. It should be noted that there are specific dosing instructions which apply to one's weight so that overdosing is not an issue. Furthermore, both drugs must be used in conjunction with other vitamins.  I wonder whether the study cited in the WSJ used the complete protocol for treating COVID.  I have been following Drs. Kory, McCullough, Malone, Makary, and many, many others during the course of the pandemic.  They are extremely well credentialed doctors who have successfully treated thousands of patients since spring of 2020.  In freedom loving countries, we are blessed to pursue that which aligns with our beliefs and our research.  Second opinions have always been a part of the medical landscape. I have presented information that strongly suggests that an experimental, never before attempted vaccine is not a person's only choice and their decision should be respected as part of our recognition of individual freedoms.  Over the past two years, both you and I have survived the pandemic by pursuing different avenues based on our own personal risk assessment and our personal belief system, and that is as it should be. 

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mask-plus-protocol/?fbclid=IwAR3B17gPM-TuC8DGo_wHhZdjU4vrrZgH6Kw6m7sRDlZuY5-fHMi6gwM5-sY

https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-mask-plus-protocol/?fbclid=IwAR3B17gPM-TuC8DGo_wHhZdjU4vrrZgH6Kw6m7sRDlZuY5-fHMi6gwM5-sY

Janie Albright (Blank)

I am so sorry to let you know that Kathy Wintering Nagy passed away yesterday afternoon two weeks after she suffered a bad fall and subsequent brain bleed. Kathy was a beautiful person inside and out and a regular fixture and helper at our reunions. 
 
I will send out an email from this site as soon as I have the obituary. Please pray for the repose of her soul. 
 

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

This is so sad.  Kathy was such a lovely, kind person.  My condolences for her family and all who knew her.

Monica Haban (Brown)

Janie-

Thank you for letting us know about Kathleen.  Your description is perfect.  She was truly beautiful inside and out.

IN PARADISUM

May the Angels lead you into paradise:

may the martyrs receive you at your coming,

and lead you into the holy city, Jerusalem.

May the choir of Angels receive you,

and with Lazarus, who once was poor,

May you have everlasting rest.

Michael McLeod

She was beautiful across the board. My sympathies to those who loved her.

Michael McLeod

I like that approach and that program, Dave. I have always wondered why there weren't more of them.

Julie Carpenter

I am so sorry to hear of Kathy's death. She was such a lovely person, inside and out. May she rest in peace.

James Hamilton, M. D.

Loss of another valued classmate. Kathy, may you rest in peace and find your heavenly reward.

Jim

Sheila McCarthy (Gardner)

I am so sorry to hear about Kathy. What a heart she had. We met at St. Agatha’s when she moved to the parish in 7th or 8th grade. Early in our freshman year, my father died of cancer. Kathy came up to me at a reunion many years later and told me she remembered him in her prayers every Sunday. Truth be told, I didn't even pray for my father every Sunday. But for 60 years, he has been faitfully lifted up to the heavens by sweet Kathy Wintering. It’s time to pay her back ...

David Mitchell

Oh no!

What a beautiful sweetheart. May she be raised up high on Eagles wings.

John Maxwell

Joseph Gentilini

So sorry to hear about Kathy's passing on to God.  May she rest in peace and may her family be consoled knowing her smile, laughter, and goodness.  Joe Gentilini

Mark Schweickart

Goodbye Kathy. You will be missed. 

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Thank you, Janie for sharing that beautiful reunion picture of Kathy...I always envied those dimples which made her smile all the more engaging.  May her soul rest in eternal peace.

Michael McLeod

This from a story about China and its braintrust keeping its distance from the Ukranian horror because they want to stay pals with Putin and they'll profit from a weakened Europe and US.

On the one hand I think they are jerks.

On the other I am a sucker for a clever metaphor, cold-hearted though it may be.

“The war is sapping the national strength of the old powers of the United States, Europe and Russia,” the summary described the scholars as saying. “China needs to watch the fire from the opposite bank and stay out of the war.”

Deborah Alexander (Rogers)

I, too, am so saddened to hear of Kathy's passing.  She was a loving and wonderful person.  May her soul rest in peace and her loved ones be comforted by their memories of her.  Another great loss for our class. 

David Mitchell

At my recnet Vietnam Veterans luncheon last week, I got to sit with Mike Betts, the new guy I referred to last month who stood up and said he was from Columbus - and who's brother-in-law was the late John Smith of class of '67.  And who's niece Shannon was my daughter ,and dauhter-in-law's best friend from 7th grade when we moved back to Columbus. John and I coached them in 7th grade basketball. (and Mke Betts' daughter lives in the house across the street from the house I grew up in)  

Anyway, he was telling me that there is talk of closing Our Lady of Peace school. And talk of gifting it to Watterson for the use of the OLP gymnasium. Not sure what plans for the classrooms.

Has anybody in Columbus heard anymore about this? 

David Mitchell

Speaking of "endangered" historic sites, how about this one?

One of my many visits to (then) "Jet Stadium" was a Sunday with my Dad. I followed them like a hawk in those days and knew all abaout the players - who were bound for Pittsburgh, if they were good enough to "graduate" to the "Bigs". We had a new kid that season - just up from Asheville in the AA league who was being touted as the next great thing. He was a tall barrel-chested black guy who played right field adn could hit the ball a mile. I told my dad more than once that the local press thought he "might not last the summer here". 

We were seated inear the front row of seats in shallow right field - not too far from this new kid's position in the outfield. The first batter for (whoever - Buffalo, Rochester, Richmond - I forget) hit a high fly ball that this new kid camped under waiting for it to fall into his glove. It popped right into his glove and out again. Error!  Man on base.

The next hitter hit another routine high fly and thenew kid didn't need to move more than a few steps to wait for it. Again, it popped right into his mitt and back out again. Error! Another man on base! No outs - yet. My dad turned to me and said, "I think youre right. This kid probably won't last the summer here."  I was sooo disappointed.

But we were both right. He didn't last the summer in Columbus. He went up to the Pirates that summer and stayed for about 18 years.  

His name was Willy Stargell!

(Note: the first overhead color (tinted) photo you see after the titles is the original "Red Bird Stadium" - built in 1929 for the "Red Birds" - the minor league farm club of the St. Louis Carinals. I still have a post card of that photo. Radio announcer Joe Garagiola spoke of renting a basement apartment in Columbus during his short stay with the Red Birds before going up to a great career with the Cardianls - I believe in the '50s.) 

David Mitchell

Anybody remember listening to Joe Hill on WMNI broadcasting those Jet games?

Or watching Johnny Powers in that riduculous wide-open stance at the plate, just trying to poke fly balls over that short right field fence?

And Joe Hill yelling "Spaghetti Water Mary" when they hit one out. There was a lady named Aunt Mary Longmeyer, who would show up at games and make bigs pots of spaghetti out in the parking lot for people coming in to the games.

I was almost an adult before somebody explained to me that WMNI couldn't afford to send Joe to those road games. He sat in the studio up north of Worthington and "announced" the action as he read the progress from a ticker tape (which you could sometimes hear), while manipulating a fake crowd noise in the background.

Monica Haban (Brown)

David Mitchell-

Your diocese of Columbus correspondent LOL!

OLP church and school will close.  The school is to become Bishop Watterson's Freshmen campusl

OLP parishioners will merge with I.C.Church and school.

St. Agatha Church and school will close.  The school will become a special needs school for the diocese.

St. Agatha students will merge with Trinity School at St. Christopher School in Grandview. However, I know that many of St. Agatha preschoolers attend St. Andrew preschool, so anticipate they will petition to attend    St. Andrew School.

St. Tim's Church and school will close.  They will merge with St. Andrew.  St. Andrew has a large church (seats 1,000+) and school.

St. Peter's will likely merge with St. Joan of Arc.  Neither has a school, but St. Joan of Arc is newer and has a huge campus, and a very young congregation.

St. Paul in Westerville will remain intact.  Has a very large church and school.

In the meantime, our pastor at St. Andrew, Monsignor Moloney, is the acting bishop/administrator for our diocese, since our bishop was transferred to the diocese of Brooklyn.  He (Monsignor Moloney) anxiously awaits the appointment of a new bishop for our diocese.

Our next bishop will be the one to implement the changes.  Shortage of priests is the said reason for the above changes.  MANY of our diocescan priests are at retirement age.  

None of the above changes will take place until we are assigned a new bishop, and the changes will likely take a few years to be implemented.

Have likely omitted a few items, but that's it for now.

James Hamilton, M. D.

Monica,

Sounds like "Cancel Culture" on an all different level! 😥

Jim

David Mitchell

Yikes Monica !

I'm almost sorry I asked. 

Score one more for the Married Priest argument. I have grown to love our local married (Anglican) priests and Bishops, with wives and kids and grandkids - which gives most of them a refreshingly different take on life.

I have long wished that the "Roman Church" could own up to the real reason for Celibate priests - that the problem of nepotism (with the priests owning the church properties - and the power that came with that) became such a problem in the early middle ages, that it had to be ended. If only they had come up wth a more modern way to handle the (abuse of) powers that grew out of generation after generation of inherited property ownership.

(And we know full well that Peter was married.)  

In recent years, I have come to know and befriend about 6 young married (with kids) priests and a couple older men who are as spiritually in tune as anyone I have ever met. Some come straight from seminaries - some from careers running highway construction firms, or IBM technical laboratories. One told us he would have gone to the "Roman" seminary, but he returned from 14 years as a missionary in Turkey, married to a Korean female fellow missionary team member before he ever considered ordination. I have also become friends with two Bishops (our own in Charleston - and a visitor from Ireland), who are great spiritual leaders, while being as down to earth as you could get - and with kids. And throw in two terrific female priests that I have met in other parishes.

I get what the social and moral "risks" are. We are not without them in the Anglican church. But should those be any greater excuse than the issues we have recently faced with Roman Catholic celibate priests in the last 50 years? 

Michael McLeod

On the parish changes: wow.

Just makes my heart sink.

I know the world we knew has changed, that change is the name of the game in this life.

And as a child it seemed so solid, so reassuring, and upon reflection so charming, all those reflections of our own parish out there....not just a home base but a string of them surrounding us, making our lives as children seem so secure and interconnected.

Trying to think of a better word than sad but that's all I've got for the moment.

There will be other charmed times for other charming children, but none quite like the one we knew.

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Just wondering if any of this information is concerning to you.

"Behaviors are going to have to change, and we're asking companies....you are going to have to force behaviors, and at Blackrock we are forcing behaviors."  Larry Fink CEO Blackrock (from discussion forum 2017) 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1506634983896752129

https://consumersresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Consumer-Warning-BlackRock.pdf   

Theresa Zeyen (Kucsma)

It is my understanding that all the changes to the churches are still in the planning stage. It is part of a project called Real Presence Real Future that has been going on for over a year. Our former bishop, Bishop Brennan, started it through an organization called the Catholic Leadership Institute. This institute has done this sort of reorganization in other dioceses. The changes in those other dioceses saw a 5%-7% decline in attendance and participation. 

This last set of models is not supposed to be final, but I have a feeling that they are narrowing down to what will actually happen. The process calls for input on this set of models just like we gave input on the first set of models. This is in response to the fact that we will be very short of parish priests by 2030.  The first set of models seemed to be based on data generated by average mass attendance, offertory, viability of the population of the parish, which they put into a sustainability score. However this last set of models does not seem to be based on much other than people complaining. I'm in a little parish called Our Lady of Mt  Carmel at Buckeye Lake. At this last meeting, we were told that there was a recommendation to make us a seasonal parish. When I asked what that would look like and what was the rationale, all they said was that they were looking for other suggestions to spread the priests around. That really concerned our parish priest and our team. We have to give feedback by the end of June this time. I think we're going to try to get a couple of parishes in our area together to look at other options and send them joint feedback. Personally I'm not concerned about where I'll be going to church, because I can go any place I want to. I am very concerned what this will do to the young families who already don't often bring their kids to church or to PSR. If they have to travel any kind of distance, that will be the end of their kids religious education probably. And yes, Dave, there's a whole bunch of us who think the church had better look at letting priests marry but I don't see that happening in my life time. 

Nothing will happen until the new bishop is appointed