The News is an Addiction ...

JMJ

People seem to be mesmerised by train wrecks.

They just can't turn away as the disaster creeps forward along train tracks towards the crossing where a car, truck, bus, trailer awaits its destruction.

Trads have been watching the train wreck that is this crisis of the Catholic Church for decades.

The trade war between the Canada and the US has reminded me that the news is addictive.

The first time I was addicted what from 2009 to 2014 when I was closely following the Rome / SSPX discussions. I was at work watching a live-stream as Bishop Fellay disappeared into the Vatican. The lead-up to this moment had been intense as the 'resistance' got freaked out and the cultural cracks between doctrine and conspiracy theory widened.

In the decade since then other things have emerged, wars, rumours of wars, conspiracies, celebrity Catholics etc.

Now we have a new addiction and its name is Trump.

Lately, no matter how much I try, I find myself wondering what craziness Trump has pumped out while I slept. The news cycle is doing what it does - keep me / people in a heightened state of anxiety and distraction from what we should be doing.

So that's what I will do ... I will focus on MY:

Duty of state,
area of responsibility,
family,
and Church.

It really isn't that hard.

Of course, I will still be posting here as the occasion arises.

P^3

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