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Sometimes it seems like all people do is complain.  Contemporary music is (Choose one): (A) Noisy, or (B) Shallow, or (C) Offensive. The American business environment is (Choose one):  (A) Cut-throat, or (B) Impersonal,  or (C) Greedy. My pastor is (Choose one):  (A) Too Conservative, or (B) Too Liberal, or (C) Too Long-Winded. Politicians are (Choose one):  (A) Power-Hungry, or (B) Beholden to Special Interest  Groups, or (C) Unwilling to Listen to the Voters on My Special Issue. And conflict, of course, is the political commentator’s bread and butter.  But... Read more

2016-09-30T16:00:01-05:00

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Here’s an anniversary that will live in infamy:  On May 12, 1982, Father Juan María Fernández y Krohn, a priest of the Society of St. Pius X, attacked Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the pope’s visit to Fatima.  There are conflicting reports as to whether the pope was injured in the incident.  During his trial, the priest testified that he opposed the reforms of Vatican II, and that he believed Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was too weak in... Read more

2016-09-30T16:00:02-05:00

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I have nothing to add to the profound musings of G.K. Chesterton.  I just ran across this beautiful poem by the prolific English writer and apologist–I thought you’d enjoy.  By the Babe Unborn If trees were tall and grasses short, As in some crazy tale, If here and there a sea were blue Beyond the breaking pale,   If a fixed fire hung in the air To warm me one day through, If deep green hair grew on great hills, I know what I... Read more

2016-09-30T16:00:02-05:00

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“This store,” asked the diminutive Filipino woman as I reached for the door at my local Dress Barn, “do they only sell clothes for you, or do they also sell clothes for thin women like me?” What would you have done?  Gotten angry or hurt or insulted?  Laughed it off? I blinked in amazement as the little woman, completely oblivious to her faux pas, waited for my answer.  Then I helped her— explaining that this store is divided in two... Read more

2016-09-30T16:00:02-05:00

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REPOSTING from last year, because of the holiday this weekend! Now there’s a mother to admire!  Just imagine dinnertime at the home of Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus!  All the sharing, all the prayer, all the joy that must have filled that happy home! Just in time for Mother’s Day, Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus, has just been named the patroness of Detroit.  It’s been a big week... Read more

2016-09-30T16:00:02-05:00

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ASTONISHING:  Just in time for Mother’s Day, the Washington Free Beacon has broken the news that although a baby can be aborted up until the ninth month in Washington DC, the White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour.  HEARTENING:  Just in time for Mother’s Day, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have published the recently approved Rite for the Blessing of... Read more

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The Michigan Appeals Court has ruled this morning in favor of confidentiality, in a landmark case involving communication between clergy and church members.  The case involves Samuel Bragg, a member of Metro Baptist Church in Belleville, Michigan.  Bragg was still a teenager in 2007 when, it is alleged, he sexually assaulted a 9-year-old girl at the church.  When Bragg’s mother found out about it two years later, she took 17-year-old Samuel with her to meet with their pastor, Rev. John... Read more

2016-09-30T16:00:03-05:00

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Watch out, Americans:  This story may be coming to a high school near you. William Swiminer, a 12-grade student at Forest Heights Community School in Chester Basin, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been suspended for a second time for wearing a T-shirt which mentioned the name of Jesus.  The “offensive” yellow shirt actually reads “Life is wasted without Jesus.”  Swiminer knew, after the first suspension, that he was jeopardizing his academic standing, and that a second suspension could prevent him from graduating... Read more

2016-09-30T16:00:03-05:00

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Perhaps you’ve called them “cafeteria Catholics”:  those politicians and others who call themselves “Catholic” but who feel it’s within their purview to decide which, among the smorgasbord of Church teachings, fit easily within their personal lifestyle, and which teachings should be disregarded and discarded.  Sometimes, especially in political life, you’ve heard them called “CINOs”—Catholics In Name Only.  Bishop George Leo Thomas, bishop of the Diocese of Helena since 2004, has another name for them:  Camouflage Catholics.  Bishop Thomas is recently... Read more

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