My final post on CAF --- farewell

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I was going to prepare a “farewell letter” to CAF readers, but given the above restrictions (for lack of a better word), that letter cannot take the form I’d envisioned. I was going to reiterate some of my more passionately-held ideas, such as how contraception (and the dissent from Humanae vitae and related teachings) is the biggest problem in the Church, and the root cause of all of the mess we see today. I had a few other thoughts too, but I can’t discuss those either. Anyone who’s ever read my poor scratchings, knows what those are. If you’re really bored, you might want to archive them. Or not.

The CAF experience has been, by far, my most enjoyable and happiest experience in the Church in the 45 years since I first passed over into the Catholic world from the darkness and error of the larger secular world, from material heresy and material schism, to truth and, I hope and pray, salvation when all is said and done. Extra ecclesiam nulla salus!

As C.S. Lewis said, “Christians never say goodbye!”. So I shall leave you on that happy note, wish everyone a fond farewell, and many of us will continue to see one another on that wonderful forum that @Tis_Bearself has done yeowoman’s work to get started. You can also read about things that are important to me, on my own website:

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May God richly bless you all, and let us pray that the year of grace 2021 will be better than this year was. It has to be.

Ad majorem Dei gloriam — HSD

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Hello, I just popped over to your blog and read your letter in regards to NFP. Did they ever give you an answer? Also, out of curiosity, what is your position on it?
 
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I had a chatty aunt that would actually lean in the driver’s window . . . I recall my father starting the car; i don’t know if he ever had to start moving . . .
 
It’s the so-called “Irish Goodbye”. Usually accompanied by a drink, which turns into more than one drink. One for the road, and one for the bend in the road, etc.

When the person finally actually leaves you’re supposed to then wave vigorously and turn your head away when they drive out of sight so you don’t see them actually disappear around the corner.

Honestly before the airports stopped letting people accompany passengers to the boarding gate after 9/11, my mother would be glommed onto me like a barnacle till the last second, until I almost thought I was going to have to take her on the plane as carry-on baggage. Of course after I actually got on the plane she would be standing there watching it go until it disappeared into the sky.
 
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