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• Target Drops Health Insurance for Part-timers, Cites Obamacare

  

  They join Home Depot, Trader Joe's and other retailers who've already done the same: About 10 percent of Target’s part-time employees, defined as those working... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 SOCIETY

• What Might've Been

  

  Tiberjudy has a poignant and timely post up: One of them might have cured cancer. Another one could have flown us to the stars. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 SOCIETY

• What in Heck is NaProTechnology and Why Should I Care?

  

  Confession. I'd never heard of this until today. Where have I been? Probably like most males, lost in knowing anything about women's health and thus, simply... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 SOCIETY

• "It Wasn't Marches Or Speeches. It Was Taking a Severe Beating, Surviving and...

  

  I don't know HamdenRice from Adam.  He may be someone I'd love to hang with, he may not be.  He may be someone we should emulate, he many not be.  He may an... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 SOCIETY

• 'Jelly Doughnut' Discovered on Mars

  

  Kinda sorta: A mysterious rock which appeared in front of the Opportunity rover is “like nothing we’ve ever seen before”, according to Mars exploration... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 SOCIETY

• This Just In... Water is Wet, Fire is Hot, the Sky is Blue And...

  

  ... nine of top 10 countries where Christians suffer are Islamic: The majority of anti-Christian persecution in the world in 2013 took place at the hands of... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Obama's Religious Freedom Day Hypocrisy

  

  Did you miss this? “The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, penned by Thomas Jefferson, declared religious liberty a natural right and any attempt to subver... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 SOCIETY

• File This Under That Promised Fundamental Transformation of America

  

  Via Guy Taylor and Rowen Scarborough at the Washington Times: Three years after the Pentagon said it was de-emphasizing Europe in favor of the Asia-Pacific... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 SOCIETY

• 99.91% of Catholic Priests Were Not Defrocked for Sexual Abuse of Children in...

  

  By now you've likely read the headlines or heard the stories... then again, perhaps not... so here ye go: The Vatican defrocked 260 priests for the sexual... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 SOCIETY

• So, What Do Americans Really Think About Joe Biden?

  MRCTV's Dan Joseph finds out... and it's pretty revealing: If I were to be asked... I'd probably say something I shouldn't... but what strikes me is that the ma... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Stuck in the Past

  

  Charlie Lehardy is talking about walking backwards... and the associated risks... and I'm willing to bet many of us need to be listening: This past weekend I wa... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Culture Matters

  

  And Catholic culture really matters. Br. Gabriel Torretta explains: There are things no one tells you when you convert to Catholicism: that six-year-olds will... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 SOCIETY

• "We Are Called to Great Purpose, but Many of Us Aren’t Answering."

  

  Or answering in ways that might lead to great disappointment.  Tony Woodlief weighs in on the notion of destiny and on how some of us might be missing that call... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Beautiful Pipe Dream of Cool Pope Has Been Fun While It Lasted"

  

  I know Lindy West not.  What I know is that she's put something up at Jezebel decrying the Pope's Catholocity: Oh, Pope Francis. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Veil Between This World and the Next is Very Thin..."

  

  Fr. Longenecker spends time with a dying lapsed Catholic: One of the sweet things about being a priest is being able to minister at a person’s deathbed. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 HISTORY, SOCIETY

• "Can a Baby’s Baptism Be Used by God to Convert the Parents?"

  

  Piggybacking on the earlier story of Pope Francis baptizing a child born to parents wed in an "irregular" marriage, The Anchoress weighs in with wisdom... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Papal Word to Parents...

  

  ... worthy of musing: During his homily at Sunday Mass Jan. 12 at the Sistine Chapel, Pope Francis reminded parents who had brought their infants to be... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• "Now, Mediocrity Sells, and Bigotry is Big Box Office"

  

  Deacon Greg Kandra is weighing in strongly on Jamie Stiehm’s anti-Catholic hit piece in the January 7th edition of U.S. News World Report, a hit piece... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 SOCIETY

• "I Am Giving an Order"

  

  Defense Secretary Robert Gates, writing in the Wall Street Journal, reveals more about how the Afghanistan war was, and likely still is, being managed than the... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Question Excessive Nudity, Be Labelled Misogynistic, Sexist and Offensive

  

  This is called cultural progress: According to Entertainment Weekly, a reporter asked a question at a press event that caused a “rage spiral” among some of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 SOCIETY