Daybreak eBulletin 2/11/22 (Nov 05, 2022)

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Tolerance of Differences

The problem seems to have started in Spain in 1928 when a bishop laid charges that Rotary was nothing but a new
Satanic organization.

The church also criticized and condemned Rotary for showing a concept of life of service without reference to church teaching.

Indeed, it seems that the church believed it was a secret society with quasi-religious overtones. For whatever reason,
the Vatican took up the reins and in 1929 it issued a decree that “it is not expedient” for Catholic priest to participate in Rotary either as members or guest.

This decree and its application was worrisome to many Catholics in Rotary not the least of which was then
RI President Tom Sutton who was himself a Catholic.

Critical and at times disparaging articles regularly appeared in Catholic newspapers. Sutton’s attempts to convince the Secretary of State at the Vatican were fruitless and the anti-Rotary articles continued to be published.

The factual errors were shown to be false and by 1933 there was a mood swing in the Vatican. Priests were now allowed to use their discretion about attending or even joining Rotary. Nevertheless, one of the results of the church attitude was a slow development of Rotary in predominantly Catholic countries such as Ireland.

The uneasy peace continued until 1951 when yet another Vatican decree warned Priests that they should not join Rotary
and that the faithful should be aware of seditious and suspected organizations.

But the world was changing and the decree caused an immediate angry response among others, from the then-Catholic

and RI President Arthur Laqueux, and even from the Rotarian, Catholic Bishop of Fort Wayne Indiana who publicly declared the decree “quite incomprehensible.”

Fairly soon, the Vatican begin to react and by the end of the decade, the Catholic Truth Society was able to declare that Rotary is neither secret nor seditious. Gradually there was a thaw in the relationship between the church and Rotary.

In 1970 Pope Paul VI addressed Rotarians in Italy and in 1979 Pope John Paul II spoke at the Rotary International convention in Rome praising many of Rotary’s humanitarian programs.

Later, Pope John Paul II accepted a Paul Harris Fellowship and a World Understanding and Peace award from Rotary.

Finally, before becoming Pope Francis, then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio accepted an honorary membership in the Rotary Club of Buenos Aires.

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LAUGHTER, THE BEST MEDICINE

Housework was a woman's job, but one evening, Janice arrived home from work

to find the children bathed, one load of laundry in the washer and another in the dryer.

Dinner was on the stove, and the table set. She was astonished!

It turns out that Dave had read an article that said, 'Wives who work full-time and had

to do their own housework were too tired to have sex'.

The night went very well. The next day, Janice told her friends all about it.

'We had a great dinner. Dave even cleaned up the kitchen.

He helped the kids do their homework, folded all the laundry and put it away.

I really enjoyed the evening.'

'But what about afterward?' asked her friends.

'Oh, that........... Dave was too tired.'

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A friend always seemed to lean slightly to the left. It bothered me, so I suggested

that he see a doctor and have his legs checked out. For years, he refused, telling me

I was crazy, but last week, he finally went.

Sure enough, the doctor discovered his left leg was a half -inch shorter than his right.

A bit of orthopedic surgery later, both legs are exactly the same length now,

and he no longer leans.

"So," I said, "you didn't believe me when I told you a doctor could fix your leg."

He just looked at me and said, "I stand corrected."

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A jeweler standing behind the counter of his shop after hours was astounded to see a
suspicious looking man in a black ski mask come hurling headfirst through the window.

"What on earth are you up to? What happened?!" he demanded.

"I'm terribly sorry," said the man, "I forgot to let go of the brick."

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Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company.

One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, 'Father,

my dog is dead... Could ya' be sayin' a mass for the poor creature?'

Father Patrick replied, 'I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal

in the church.... But there are some Baptists down the lane, and there's no tellin'

what they believe. Maybe they'll do something for the creature.'

Muldoon said, 'I'll go right away Father. Do ya' tink £5,000 is enough to donate to them

for the service?'

Father Patrick exclaimed, 'Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't yiz tell me the dog

was Catholic?

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A golfer is cupping his hand to scoop water from a Highland burn on the St Andrews course.

A green keeper shouts: 'Dinnae drink tha waater! Et's foo ae coo's shite an pish!'

The golfer replies: 'My Good fellow, I'm from England . Could you repeat that for me,

in English!?'

The keeper replies: 'I said, use two hands - you'll spill less that way!

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Bella was terribly upset. Her fiance, Marvin, had been to a

clinical psychologist, and the results were not entirely

consoling.

She said to her mother, "I'm not sure the marriage would be

happy, Ma. The psychologist says Marvin tests out to have a

pronounced Oedipus complex."

Her mother shrugged and said, "Don't listen to that fancy

talk. I've watched Marvin and I tell you he's all right.

Just look how much he loves his mother."