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• Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank Not Obama, He's Free at Last

  

  The news for Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is nothing but good this morning: After 214 days in a Mexican prison, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi crossed the US –... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 SOCIETY

• “This is Message-sending by Putin, and It’s Dangerous”

  

  It's a full court Putin press: When the White House discovered in recent weeks that its unclassified computer systems had been breached, intelligence officials... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• What Are the Russians up To?

  

  This story caught my eye this morning: Russian military aircraft conducted aerial maneuvers around Europe this week on a scale seldom seen since the end of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 SOCIETY

• About the Hysteria Surrounding the Pope's Alleged Most Recent Break with Catholi...

  

  Your go to related read is over at David Mill's place: “Pope Francis made a significant rhetorical break with Catholic tradition Monday by declaring that the... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 SOCIETY

• “Symphony of Truth”

  

  George Weigel lists the names of a myriad of people who've converted to the Catholic faith as adults and then writes: If there is a thread running through... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 SOCIETY

• 'Yes, I Am Catholic, but Not Too Catholic.'

  

  I might be wrong... but... it seems the Pope is being a little more strident of late: Pope Francis said that those waiting at the threshold of the Church withou... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "Lethal to Faith"

  

  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has largely been quiet since resigning the papacy twent months ago but last week, he broke that silence and did so strongly: “The... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Lord Has Strong Words Towards Christian Who Avoid Overstating Their...

  

  Pope Francis yesterday stepped on a few toes: The Lord has strong words towards Christian who avoid overstating their Christianity, the Pope told the... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "It Results in a Certain Formlessness, the Reduction of an Intellectually...

  

  Fr. Longenecker is hitting us hard with truth, yet he's doing so because Love motivates him: Religion without dogma is like playing tennis without a net. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 SOCIETY

• “What is Being Proposed is Not Marriage, It's an Association. But It's Not...

  

  Hey... this just in... the Pope... he's Catholic! In an audience with members of an international Marian movement, Pope Francis warned that the sacrament of... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "Abundance of Assurance"

  

  Tod Worner, a physician, has written a must read Ebola piece: We crowded into a small room at my internal medicine clinic and looked at each other. Some... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "Well-spoken Blacks Are Seen by Some Other Blacks as Not Completely Black."

  

  What was behind the rather sudden and surprising trade by the Seahawks of Percy Harvin?  Mike Freeman is suggesting that, at least in part, it's racial:  While... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "Are You a Catholic?"

  

  What's the evidence?   Hard-hitting (some might call hokey) piece coming our way via Aleteia that should give the faithful pause... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Boston College Knows How to Shake It off

  

  And they've got the expressed thumbs up from Taylor Swift herself (details at the link): Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "... More Than a Half-dozen Unnamed Black Witnesses Have Provided Testimony to...

  

  That and much more coming from the WaPo: Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson and Michael Brown fought for control of the officer’s gun, and Wilson... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "Suffering is Not Worthless, and Our Lives Are Not Our Own to Take."

  

  A Catholic seminarian, dying of brain cancer, has penned a letter to Brittany Maynard, the 29 year old woman who has promised to commit suicide in the coming... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "I Absorbed the Prevailing Idea That Religion in General, and Christianity in...

  

  Brandon Vogt's interview with atheist to Catholic convert and author Holly Ordway is a great read: I remember a conversation I had when I was about eight years... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 SOCIETY

• "How Do We Make Sense of the Rosary as a Manly Devotion?"

  

  Hard to believe it's been more than three years since I wrote this: I've got a confession to make. I'm regularly praying the Rosary.  There, I said it. For... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Like a Virgin... This Time with Divine Meaning

  

  Sister Cristina does Madonna one better: "I chose it with no intention to provoke or scandalize. Reading the text, without being influenced by previous... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Deeper Causes

  

  "A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 SOCIETY