(Part two of two)  “The whole world spoke the same language, using the same words . . . Let us then go down and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says” (Genesis 11:1 and 7).  The whole world changed from letting yes mean yes and no mean no to yes and no have no meaning.  “Blessed the people he Lord has chosen to be his own” (Psalm 33:12), where yes means yes and no means no.  

Burke is currently on the island of Guam, where he is presiding over a church trial investigating allegations of sexual abuse against the island's former archbishop.—Joshua J. McElwee.  Looks like somebody is in for a cursing, rather than a blessing.  “What profit is there for one to gain the world and forfeit his life?” (Mark 8:36).   Liturgy of the Word, Reading 339, Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I  May God have mercy on the Faithful, today.