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• Priest's Gun Used in Murder of Fr. Walker

  

  This will become fodder for the next battle between blogging Catholics I suspect: On Monday, police in Phoenix, Arizona, announced that they've arrested a... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 SOCIETY

• So Which is It?

  

  Interesting conflicting perspectives in this USA Today piece reporting on events in Iraq: Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 SOCIETY

• We Need More of These Kinds of Stories

  

  And more people like this young lady... oh, and like RGIII: Via Pat Archbold. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "If You're Not Seeing It, You're Missing Something Pretty Amazing"

  

  What follows, from Chris Stephanick, is powerful.  Or should be.  If you're not Catholic, you're likely to shrug and move on.  Understandable.  Thanks for... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "It's a Tale About a Brave Woman Bravely Getting a Brave Abortion"

  

  Mark Shea on the latest attempt by the culture of death to pass off darkness as light: So there's this new romantic comedy out, promoted by Planned Parenthood,... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "I Had to Learn to Live with Questions That Defy Answer"

  

  Kyle Cupp writes of his faith struggles after losing his daughter Vivian: On special occasions or whenever the mood takes us, my wife, two children, and I... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "It Was a Shock to My System."

  

  I had a tough time falling asleep last night. I made the mistake of watching a video chronicling some of the horror occurring in Iraq. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "American Secular Ignorance About Religion is Partly to Blame for the Present...

  

  Fr. Longenecker rarely delves into political commentary but because there's an ignored religious connotation, he's making an exception: I don’t often comment... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 SOCIETY

• Obama's Blindness

  

  Gerard Nadal is reacting to the latest school shooting and Obama's abysmal response: WHY are these shootings taking place, and WHY now? We have tighter... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 SOCIETY

• “We Live in a Society Inebriated by Technology”

  

  Tod Worner has found the most apt of all commencement addresses, one that should be given at every graduation going on this month in the country, hell, maybe... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 SOCIETY

• “Please Let Me Go Home”

  

  Hard to believe it's come to this: Justina Pelletier, the Connecticut teen taken from her family more than a year ago by Massachusetts officials after her... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Global Media Are Becoming Less and Less Accountable"

  

  Especially if that being reported has anything to do with Christianity, most especially if it's Catholic. Eamonn Fingleton at Forbes with more: Few of us are... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "He Got a Rope and Lowered Himself into the Hold"

  

  Matt Archbold has found a nugget in William F. Buckley's Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith about an incredibly courageous and faithful priest: "David... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "Do We Believe That Sincere and Faith-filled Prayer Has Power?"

  

  As I write this, the Invocation for Peace is going on at the Vatican.  This is being widely panned by the faithless, the stony hearted, the cynical, the... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2014 SOCIETY

• “I Never Said to Anyone That 800 Bodies Were Dumped in a Septic Tank.”

  

  Via The Irish Times: ‘I never used that word ‘dumped’,” Catherine Corless, a local historian in Co Galway, tells The Irish Times. “I never said to anyone that... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2014 SOCIETY

• Your D-Day Commemorative Read of the Day

  

  Via Tod Worner: “When I think of the beaches of Normandy choked with the flowers of American and British youth and when, in my mind’s eye I see the tides runnin... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2014 SOCIETY

• Do We Call Church Home Or Are We Just Renting?

  

  Pope Francis, in this morning's Mass in the chapel of his residence, was stepping on some toes: Pope Francis focused his daily homily on Jesus’ prayer for the... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "With the Exception of the Church, No One Seems to Care Much About What's True O...

  

  Fr. Philip Neri Powell on what some might call the failing health of truth: If Truth were a commodity—like oil or pork bellies—its stock value would be very... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Unprecedented Empowerment of Ignorance"

  

  My little youngest brother and I had a brief exchange earlier today on the hopelessness that ensues when seeing that there are still people driving around... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 SOCIETY

• "Suck It up and Salute"

  

  The words the Obama Administration had for members of the military who had issues with the Bergdahl/terrorist swap according to Time: To pull off the prisoner... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 SOCIETY