Prescription Co-Pays to High???? …Maybe you should Head to Brazil

Brazil has a brand new Saint; Galvao was an early 19th century monk who distributed tiny pills made out of rice paper with a latin inscription about the Blessed Virgin. The pills were credited with curing everything from demonic possession to epilepsy (which are often cross diagnosed by the church…). Even today, the cloistered sisters of Brazil work hard to produce enough pills to meet the continuous demand.

Generally at this point a typical smart alec liberal (like myself) would write something conceited about peasants and uneducated beliefs in supernatural cures and how the church has capitalized on these fears in the past. But not today; today I have a headache, and for no good reason… I didn’t even have a glass of wine last night. So who am I to say that the pain in my head isn’t being caused by a couple of demons, who live behind my left ear, pounding on a tiny brass bell? Which, of course, is in punishment for my great, great, great grandfather’s failure to genuflect when he passed in front of a roadside Marion Shrine just outside of Cork on his way to a cattle auction.

Thanks a lot Grandpa O’Paddie.

Will anyone be traveling to a small Brazillian monastery in the near future…? There’s a package I’d like you to pick-up for me.

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