I was not referring to the Iceland volcanic eruption. As far as
the Icelandic people were concerned volcanic activity were fairly regular events. I woke up yesterday to two things which doesn’t always happen regularly. The first one was that the Colorado Supreme Court gave a decision to disqualify Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election. Why was this abnormal? Because American judges refrain from telling American voters who they can vote for. Essentially that was what’s happening here, although the decision will have to wait for the US Supreme Court. Don’t get me wrong I happen to agree with the decision and its logic. The issue was that the fourteenth amendment of the US Constitution disqualifies a person to be an elector of President if after taking an oath he engaged in insurrection or rebellion. The Colorado Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision on the matter.
The second item yesterday was Pope Francis’ reversal on the church blessing same-sex relationships. Change like this happen only in a generation. The very next day a same-sex couple received a blessing from a priest in New York. This is not a reversal on the teaching that gay relationship is a sin. But it does emphasize Pope Francis’ call for love and forgiveness of the sinner to the church.