The Excommunication of Sister Margaret

It was because she acquiesced to the aborting of a three month pregnancy in a mother of four living children.  It was a pregnancy that could very possibly resulted in both maternal and fetal death and was certainly extremely high risk for a woman who already had children at home who needed her.  It would have been ok by church law to let mom die.  However the church views abortion as murder.  I am Catholic.  I love my church.  Frequently, I do not love the exclusive men's club that rules it.  Frankly, I don't think Christ had any problem with women being in charge.  Please remember that the Bible, old testament and new, AND the Koran, were all written by men.  What do you think they are going to say?  They were arcane times and the society of men were afraid that the society of women would rule again, so they used every tool at their disposal to prevent it from ever reverting back.  Call it genetic gender defect.  Call it galactic stupidity.  Call it incredibly bad judgment.  Call it what it really is:  a great tragedy.

Recovery

We are starting to recover from the largest single day drop in the stock market in history.  It was purportedly caused by a program glitch that showed what appeared to be a 50% drop in the price of Procter & Gamble stock.  People panicked and what followed was rapid, ugly and painful.  All for no good reason.  There has to be some way to slow down or prevent panic selling.  I don't know how it can be accomplished, but I think it is a worthy goal.