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May 2013

May 31, 2013
In the ersatz world of Big Advertising, sex sells.  Apparently, so does outrageous blasphemy. I...
May 31, 2013
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation, that day when the pregnant Mary travels...
May 30, 2013
If you are a baby in the town of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, Spain,...
May 30, 2013
Call it the ultimate hole-in-one. Golfers in Washington State who dream of spending all their...
May 29, 2013
Negligence.  Ignorance.  Inertia. These are some of the reasons why Catholic dioceses might offer employees’...
May 28, 2013
In its third season on A&E, the reality show “Duck Dynasty” has vaulted to the...
May 27, 2013
ATHEIST NUMBER ONE Last night, my imagination was sparked by an entry I read over...
May 27, 2013
Pope Francis caused quite a stir with the atheists last week, didn’t he?  The pontiff,...
May 26, 2013
This is the story of a big brass bell. The bell, which stood three feet...
May 25, 2013
Father Theodore Hesburgh is one of “four great Americans”—along with Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,...
May 25, 2013
I have known Vinny Flynn for years.  I’ve seen him at the Catholic Marketing Network...
May 24, 2013
Within twenty-four hours of the Boy Scouts’ big announcement that they will open the membership...
May 24, 2013
“People don’t want to pay for other people’s abortions.”  That’s Barbara Listing, president of Right...
May 23, 2013
Would you send your 12-year-old son on a camping trip with a gay troop leader?...
May 22, 2013
Human cloning is finally here—but the scientific community and the popular media are reluctant to...
May 22, 2013
UPDATE:  Your help is needed to keep this great Ministry of Coffee open!   St....
May 18, 2013
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest...
May 18, 2013
In this Marian month, I continue my weekly focus on Mary, the Mother of God. ...
May 16, 2013
Getty Images, the world’s leading stock photo agency, offers more than 80 million still images...
May 16, 2013
I had heard this unofficially.  Yesterday, though, the Holy See Press Office issued a press...
May 16, 2013
Whew!  Our nation is relieved that the horrible newborn killer, Kermit Gosnell, is finally safely...
May 14, 2013
He is a gentle, happy man.  A ten-time Grammy Award winner, a virtuoso vocalist and...
May 13, 2013
A million signatures. That’s the ambitious goal of the non-denominational European campaign “One of Us”. ...
May 13, 2013
On May 13, after seven days of deliberations, a federal jury has found abortionist Kermit...
May 12, 2013
Is Father John Corapi still trying to restore his reputation and return to active ministry?...
May 11, 2013
Last week I told you that on Saturdays during the month of May, I would...
May 09, 2013
May 08, 2013
David Foster Wallace was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer and essayist.  Time magazine...
May 07, 2013
I’d love to tell you that my children, when they were young, always loved going...
May 07, 2013
I’m speechless.  In a convergence of chutzpah and bad taste, Shorewood (WI) artist Niki Johnson...
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