2017-03-09T22:33:52+00:00

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Jill Stanek asked an interesting question over the weekend. Why Is Abortion Googled More in Pro-Life States? This question comes from a Boston Herald article that reports on a recent study that found that “abortion” was Googled more frequently in states with conservative abortion policies than in states with easier access to abortion. The problem is that the doctors who conducted the study were not content to simply report facts. They needed a reason. And without one they could prove,... Read more

2017-03-09T22:33:55+00:00

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(Simcha here) Oh, oh, speaking of glamour:  I heard this song, “Jolene,” on A Prairie Home Companion, and groused to my husband, “That girl doesn’t have the voice to sing that song!”  But I couldn’t remember who did sing it well.  It turned out, of course, to be a Dolly Parton song.  I always forget how good she is.  Take a listen: Man!   That nylon hair, that tight polyester suit!  And that’s just the guy who introduces her.  I dithered... Read more

2017-03-09T22:33:57+00:00

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(this is really Sally Thomas, but if you want to call me Anchoress 2.0, that’s okay) I think Danielle, Simcha and I are having an unofficial contest:  who’s the . . . what was that word, Simcha? The Gummo? I think each one of us is convinced that the other two are Superwoman Glamourpusses, while we ourselves are having this interesting dream in which we got invited to stand in for The Anchoress, and any minute now we’re going to... Read more

2017-03-09T22:33:59+00:00

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What a thrill to be here! I was honored to be asked to blog here during Elizabeth’s exciting trip to Rome. When she emailed about it, I figured this was about as close to actually taking a trip to Rome as I am likely to get in the foreseeable future, and I was not about to turn it down. Besides, who can resist a chance to be The Anchoress? Or at least play pretend. Even if I have to share... Read more

2017-03-09T22:34:02+00:00

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Source No more time for blogging, obviously, but as Rome draws near, I ask you to leave any prayer requests and intentions you have here in the comments section (not email, please; I want to keep all of the requests together. If it’s something very private, just write “for my special intention” – God will know what it is, and no one else needs to). I will take all of your prayer requests with me, from church to church, altar... Read more

2017-03-09T22:34:04+00:00

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Perhaps New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg deserves credit, then, for saying straight out, and sticking to his position, that the mosque “is as important a test” of “the separation of church and state as we may see in our lifetime.” Indeed, he added, “We would be untrue to the best part of ourselves—and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans—if we said ‘no’ to a mosque in Lower Manhattan.” And yet, there’s something in that Bloombergian line that puts... Read more

2017-03-09T22:34:07+00:00

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Let me take a second to introduce everyone to a group of terrific, talented ladies who have agreed to help keep this place from falling into a mausoleum while I’m off gallivanting! Meet Danielle Bean, Simcha Fisher and Sally Thomas Danielle Bean is a little force of nature who writes everywhere – at Inside Catholic, at the National Catholic Register, at Faith and Family Live!; in her spare time, she writes books!. Anytime I think I’m working hard, I look... Read more

2017-03-09T22:34:10+00:00

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Anathema. Took some doing to find a picture, let me tell you. I’ve managed to schedule a WOTD for each day, even while I’m away, so don’t forget to check it. Toward the end I got a little punchy, so they’re kind of interesting! Read more

2017-03-09T22:34:12+00:00

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Isn’t this a great picture? Flowers in the Utah desert, after a rain. Even what is hard and barren may be cracked open, to reveal an inner beauty hardly guessed at. Bliss. Let’s revisit a little bliss: . . . we are His raiment, and whether we consent to it or not, we will eventually be worn out and put away, and He will go on, living in others, arrayed in whatever garment they offer. Whether we are thin, fat,... Read more

2017-03-09T22:34:14+00:00

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Had a conversation last week with an acquaintance who ascribes any-and-all resistance to the Park51 Mosque/Cultural Center as “bigotry and xenophobia.” I said, “that’s way too easy, cheap and stale; it’s more complicated than that, and reducing every controversy to “bigotry” is not serving the nation well.” I suppose I could just save my breath from now on, and refer the question to this piece by Charles Krauthammer Spengler on The Fall of Rome VDH: Decline is a choice So... Read more

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