2017-03-07T20:43:11+00:00

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According to the Times’ John Tierney, some researchers are concluding that narcissism — which they apparently define as self-centeredness and a tendency to self-promote — is on the rise: Two of Dr. DeWall’s co-authors, W. Keith Campbell and Jean M. Twenge, published a book in 2009 titled “The Narcissism Epidemic,” which argued that narcissism is increasingly prevalent among young people — and possibly middle-aged people, too, although it’s hard for anyone to know because most of the available data comes... Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:14+00:00

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Okay guys, I am OUTTA here – already way behind schedule – I haven’t even finished packing! Guest blogging while I am gone (although I will try to peek in, when I can) will be Max Lindenman, whose latest column for Patheos you can find here. Max is a very smart, very funny guy who has never blogged before. Be nice. And keep him in line! See you soon! Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:16+00:00

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My column at First Things today: And why expend angst and energy about maybe-mentions of Earth Day when there is genuinely bad theology being preached from the pulpit, as a friend relates here: I was willing to overlook the Good Friday sermon saying Jesus didn’t die for our sins and focusing on NAFTA. But I cannot overlook the Easter sermon that says Jesus didn’t really rise from the dead. We were told that the empty tomb was just symbolism and... Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:19+00:00

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(My photo of ancient side altar at the Basilica of Santa Sabina) While I am busy getting my column written for tomorrow and attending to other duties and devotions (Easter Monday Adoration! Yay!) I thought I’d invite you to leave your prayer requests and intentions in the comments thread. I will print them out and take them with me to Rome, and ask St. Catherine of Siena, St. Philip Neri and others for their prayerful support on your behalves, and... Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:21+00:00

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A profound and beautiful prayer, one packed with meaning: part of the Via Crucis led by our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI: The meditations of this year’s Way of the Cross were entrusted to Sister Maria Rita Piccione, O.S.A., President of the Our Lady of Good Counsel Federation of Augustinian Contemplatives in Italy. Sister Mary Rita is a member of the Augustian hermitage of Lecceto, near Siena (Italy,) one of the Tuscan convents of the thirteenth century and a cradle... Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:23+00:00

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That’s my photo of Raphael’s Triumph of the Cross over Paganism. Like all of my photos it’s short-sighted and a little off-center. Like me. I wanted to write something of my own for Holy Thursday,, but the day completely got away from me, thanks to running around getting Buster’s lungs seen-to and narc’d up. My big beefy son gets off the plane last night looking green and coughing like Camille about to expire. I don’t get it. How can someone... Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:26+00:00

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Buster got home from school late last night and he is green, and coughing up a lung. He is clearly very ill. Back to the doctor we go. I have no idea if his school physician is any good. Please say a prayer for him. Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:28+00:00

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A horrible story made even worse by our excesses of media. Try to fully engage and consider this awful story while attempting to ignore the unstoppable video-with-commercials that ABC News plops into almost all of its pages, and which cannot be stopped while in commercial mode. The story is shattering — two young teenage girls committed suicide together, and yes, bullying once again seems to lie at the heart of their hopelessness: The bodies of best friends Haylee Fentress and... Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:31+00:00

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Over at Instapundit Glenn Reynolds writes: YA THINK? Higher Education: The Next Asset Bubble? “45 percent of college graduates earn less than $15,000.” Can this be true? Yes it can be true! My son is 25, graduated from a well-respected school, has additional certifications in a variety of areas and is a well-read autodidact to boot. He is currently working at what he hopes will be a temporary job where — even with “overtime” — he took home a whopping... Read more

2017-03-07T20:43:33+00:00

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Many of you enjoyed Matt Emerson’s last piece for Patheos, where he looked at Education and the Dubious “Frontier” into which we’re launching ill-prepared students. As a lawyer who chucked it to become a teacher in a Catholic school (where the pay is meager, I am sure) he writes here about how almost no one seems to go into law anymore out of a sense of vocation or calling, and that often leads to being overburdened financially, beset materially and... Read more

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