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here. Another military reader of mine strove to break through Disqus and failed, so she wrote me: I hope you don’t mind my emailing a comment – disqus and my organization’s firewall don’t seem to like each other. One of the things the young prospective officer should look at is the length of the obligation [...]
She wonders… whether we should encourage our son to accept an Air Force ROTC scholarship or not. I am an Army veteran (ROTC), but with no combat experience, my husband is civilian, my dad and bros were Air Force enlisted, my other brother is still in the Army. I have military friends, mostly Navy, mostly [...]
A reader writes: I would like the justice system to prevail in the case of the Boston Bomber suspect but I don’t want the death penalty for him, if convicted. Besides the moral issues, I don’t want him to turn into a martyr for jihad that tells other radicals “if your bombs don’t kill you, [...]
A reader writes: Do you know of any authors, modern day priest scientists or writers who have pondered or written of a historical fiction approach to the Creation of Man/Fall story? Something that still follows Church teaching on the matter, but is more historical than Genesis? Something that might account for fossil records of early [...]
A reader writes: If there is one thing I am confident in, it is the ability of you and your minions to come up with a pun. My local parish is having a spring festival, and it is going to be spy themed, but I can’t think of anything better than “Double oh Heaven” Can [...]
A reader writes: Wow! Pope Francis is encouraging his priests to ‘Open the doors of the Church, and then the people will come in … if you keep the light on in the confessional and are available, then you will see what kind of line there is for confession’. Fantastic! I’ve often felt that confession [...]
A reader writes: I have a problem regarding how to what to say when certain topics come up at work. I am a public school teacher working at a residential psychiatric facility. Due to the environment my students are in, the subject of masturbation and homosexuality comes up frequently amongst the teachers. Our students spend [...]
A reader writes: Yesterday, at the meeting with various religious groups, Pope Francis, (if the translation is accurate) expressed a desire for peaceful co-exsistence among religions. Since “co-exsistence” is my most hated bumpersticker, this has been worrying me ever since I read it. No one seems to have noticed it either. Did you? I value [...]
A reader writes: You seem like a guy who might know a bit about this. For perhaps obvious reasons, I find myself suddenly interested in purchasing a poster or icon of St. Francis. I would kind of prefer it if I could purchase it from an actual charitable/religious organization instead of from, uh, Amazon or [...]
Recently, this landed in my email box in response to my posting one of those cool Jimpressions videos: Much appreciated! If you ever are in Hollywood, come to my JIMPRESSIONS show, on me! All the best, Jim Meskimen www.jimpressions.net Thanks, Mr. Meskimen! You’re a Meskimensch!
He writes: I’d like to see smarter heads than mine talking about it. I wonder if Rand Paul or someone might sponsor such a bill? “What should a bill banning drone assassinations overseas, as well as domestic drone spying, look like? It is irrelevant whether these machines are being used presently for good or evil, [...]
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