text: Not sure a view from Rome is what we need at the moment.—Monicadeangelis  Me neither.  “”So also David declares the blessedness of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works” (Romans 4:6), particularly the works of the sexual coverups emanating unabashedly from Rome . . . well abashedly, but, really, not so.  “I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation” (Psalm 32 (see 7).  Not having Bette here leaves such joy in the abstract.  I cannot wait to be with her and her family again . . . in the meantime, plod on we go.  “Whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light” (Luke 12:3), if anyone cares about more irrelevancies from Rome at this time in history.  The Gospel carried on by the Church is relevant; but so much of what Rome makes of that Gospel merits ignoring.  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 471, Friday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time I.