A lot of Catholics, not only young ones, did show up later to protect the pilgrims. Sol is where you come up out of the Metro from practically anywhere in Madrid, so a lot of the visitors didn´t even know that these thugs were waiting for them.
I might have to schedule a road trip to Rio for the next one. I know it's supposed to be for youth, but they shouldn't have to take all that heat alone.
So they used to have girls, but are reverting to all boys? I wonder how that’ll go over with the parents of girls who are currently serving.
One factual error - Arlington also had only boys as diocesan policy until a few years ago, when Bishop Loverde said it was up to the pastors. Our parish has girls, but at least they’re not in the same cassocks as the boys. I do wish they’d quit playing with their hair.
What on earth does being unemployed have to do with being able to draw disability from Social Security?
Lotta scammers out there, and plenty of docs who'll go along with it. I know a woman who's been collecting full disability for years b/c the stress of commuting 60 miles each way from our town to DC for ten years was just too much for her.
There used to be baby-shower games of dangling the woman’s wedding ring on a string over a Bible (I think there was even a specific chapter/verse) and if it swung clock-wise, or counter-, that’s how you could tell. Another was to dump some pee in a container with Drano, and if it turned one color, that’s a boy, and some other color was for a girl. Now that everyone can tell from the sonogram, those games have disappeared, as has my knowledge of the details.
Re the real testing, a friend of mine was told that one of her test numbers was so high, that she had to be carrying multiples, and that all of them had spina bifida. Being pro-life, there was no question of what she’d do (some in-laws saw it differently) and she delivered one perfect little girl. I wouldn’t even bother having those tests, unless it was something that could be corrected pre-birth.