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<\/a>I\u2019m off to Birmingham AL before too long to do some programs for EWTN. I\u2019ll be recording a Living His Life Abundantly<\/span>\u00a0program with Johnette Benkovic on Monday November 3 and then appearing on Journeys Home<\/span>\u00a0with Marcus Grodi on that evening. Tune in if you can.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve been asked today to provide a weekly column for The Universe<\/span>\u2013the UK\u2019s largest Catholic paper. I thought I might call the column The Bad Penny<\/span>. There\u2019s this Anglicism that Americans may not know which is, \u201cHe keeps turning up like a bad penny.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u00a0I know I\u2019m paranoid, but I did get the feeling that certain members of the English Catholic community were not exactly sorrowful when I and my family left for the USA two years ago. \u00a0My doing a weekly column in the Catholic press might just be case of \u2018a bad penny.\u2019 \u00a0Pray that the column will be gracious enough to printed and controversial enough to make people wish it weren\u2019t printed.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opportunity Knocks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I'm off to Birmingham AL before too long to do some programs for EWTN. 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