Fr. John's weekly letter

Dear Friends,

So let’s pick on a family that is down on its luck…that seems to be the game the media is playing lately with the Palin family. Imagine an American family that is having some struggles with a teenager! There is a shameless amount of glee that the media is taking from the fact that Governor Palin’s daughter is expecting a child or that her husband had a DUI arrest a few short 22 years ago. Grant it someone’s political record is fodder for a news story but not their personal lives. Governor Palin stepped under the hot lights not her teenage daughter. Yet it seems the media feels an obligation to destroy this young girl completely. Maybe they are mad she didn’t have an abortion or maybe they don’t like her mother or maybe they are just displaying their usual haughtiness about what they perceive as the “white trash” from the boondocks of Alaska showing up unexpectedly.........(read more)