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Support First Things Online! Longtime readers know that I am ever-reluctant to shake the tin cup, but First Things is looking to keep its online presence alive and thriving, and that means keeping me and Gateway Pundit, Spengler, Evangel, First Thoughts, Secondhand Smoke and the Postmodern Conservative up and running, so hear me rattle, after all! The magazine is enticing you with a limited-time offer: a one-year subscription to First Things. If you have not had the opportunity to sample... Read more

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Cardinal John Joseph O’ Connor, Priest and Patriot (Rear Admiral, USN) Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Cardinal O’ Connor, who was one of my heroes. A priest and a patriot, a “prince” of the church, who never lost his “common” touch, and a champion for life. New Evangelization TV (NET-TV) will be livestreaming coverage of both a conference and the memorial Mass that will take place at St. Patrick’s Cathedral today. The conference begins at 4:00... Read more

2017-03-10T16:38:05+00:00

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:::UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS: NYC Car Bombing episode looks increasingly like work of terrorists. It takes a lot to get anyone to admit it. Let’s be aware of this: were it not for technical difficulties last weekend in NY, and in the air last December 26th, we’d now be talking about two successful terrorist attacks on America, in the last 6 months. The Government is keeping its options open, though. You never know, this might have been the work of government-hating... Read more

2017-03-10T17:46:00+00:00

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Recently, writing about the terrible scandals of the church and the need for the hierarchy (and others) to do penance, I added: The fullness of healing, of course, can only come when the victims finally feel capable of saying “I forgive you…” That moment -which cannot be compelled and does not mean forgetting- is the moment when a victim takes his life back. When a victim says, “I forgive you,” she confers her own power over the entire situation, and... Read more

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Okay, I admit it; I am a fan of the X-men comic books, circa 1990’s. Here is some dish and talk about costumes. It’s only for the seriously engaged or for Tim Gunn fans. If you’re into dresses, I love this site Read more

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Irish writer John Waters, on Pope Benedict and the zeitgeist: “When you are invited on to a radio programme, all they want to talk about is sex abuse,” he said. And the Pope – whose writings on beauty, truth, on the nature of man, on Christ, he finds absolutely gripping and of huge importance – is caught up in a drama where no one really listens to what he has to say or takes any notice when it is explained... Read more

2017-03-10T17:46:12+00:00

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Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J. From this interesting piece on Fr. Walter J. Ciszek and the simple (but not easy to come by) truths he learned while in the Gulag: . . . Lubianka wore him down with its constant hunger and isolation and the all-night interrogations, with their mind games and agonizing afterthoughts. After a year—brutalized, drugged, threatened with death—Ciszek did what he had been sure he would never do: He signed papers that gave the impression he had been... Read more

2017-03-10T17:46:15+00:00

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In New York, Queens Assemblywoman Margaret Markey routinely presents a bill which seeks to open a year-long “window” into the statute of limitations on child sex-abuse cases, allowing victims whose cases may go back as far as 40 years to bring suit for damages. Because the bill has -until now- been limited by Markey to impact the churches, exclusively, it has always either failed or been shelved. It is difficult to pass a bill that essentially finds some sexual abuse... Read more

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