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• Will You Be Following the Pope's First Trip Abroad?

  

  I know I will... I hope you'll consider it. Here's an excellent piece that gives us a glimpse on what's on the docket: As he boarded the plane for Rio de Janeir... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 SOCIETY

• A Stunning Statistic

  

  Had you heard this?  The number is shocking: To update, in the 503 days between Trayvon dying, and today’s verdict, 10,865 African Americans have been murdered... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "We Are Giving Value to False Sources of Wisdom"

  

  My pastor and priest, Father Mike Joly, with thoughts related to today's gospel lesson: If there’s one characteristic which defines Americans at our core, it’s... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Wouldn't It Be Great for Temar Boggs to Be Singled out by President Obama?

  

  Here's a young man who decided to get involved because he had a feeling he could help... and did: Temar Boggs had a feeling he'd find the 5-year-old girl who wa... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Something Unexpectedly Beautiful

  Watch. Pretty awesome, more awesome when you understand that they're singing a prayer: Pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie Jesu, pie JesuQui tollis peccata mundiDona eis... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 SOCIETY

• The Shawarma Republics Are Burning

  Guest posted by tim, The Godless Heathen Possibly the most coherent explanation of how and why the Middle East is so screwed up - Via Daniel Greenfield at Sulta... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "Please Stay Together. Please Keep Trying."

  

  Simcha Fisher has a beautifully written piece up capturing that for which we should all be fighting: It was scorching hot at our little town beach. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 SOCIETY

• IRS Scandal Now Tied to Obama Appointee

  

  This, from Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal, isn't getting the attention it needs to be getting. I wonder why: The IRS scandal was connected this week no... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Resisting the Power of Fashion

  

  Marc Barnes, also known as BadCatholic, is always thoughtfully provoking. In this piece he challenges every Catholic, and really, every person, to resist the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "He Speaks to People Like Me"

  

  A non-Catholic asks to meet the Pope and gets his wish.   Great story: This morning, as the hot July sun was just beginning to rise over Rome, something... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Why Become Devoutly Catholic?

  

  There are numerous reasons of course but today we have U.S. News and World Report detailing that there is now one more: Devout, married Catholics have the best... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "The Initial Portrait of Zimmerman as a Racist Wasn’t Just Exaggerated. It Was...

  

  A journalist finally takes the time to look at the facts of the case and booyah... is shocked and stunned that many of his presuppositions and assumptions are... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 SOCIETY

• “Political Persecution Has Reached a Dimension Unforeseen by Many”

  

  tyranny [tir-uh-nee] noun, plural tyr·an·nies.1. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.-Dictionary. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "There is No Doubt That This Whole Tragedy Began with the Racial Profiling of...

  

  Jim Wallis has sunk to new depths, apparently deciding to channel Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others who make their living dividing us on the basis of skin... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 SOCIETY

• What Part of Catholic Teaching Can a Catholic Ignore?

  

  Mark Shea is discussing pan-Catholicism, prudential judgment and conscience and it's seriously enlightening stuff.   Here's a piece of it: Lots and lots of... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "The Attention on the Zimmerman Trial is Not About Justice for Trayvon; It’s...

  

  When I read what follows, from Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who happens to be black, I have hope for America's racial problems.  But then I think about how ingraine... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Thoughts and a Challenge in Light of the Zimmerman Verdict

  

  Last night, in my view, justice was served. A jury of George Zimmerman's peers overcame invested emotion and political and cultural pressures to find a man... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 SOCIETY

• 'Pressures to Impose “a Secular, Anti-religious Culture” on the U.S. Military...

  

  Any close observer of this President and his policies would conclude similarly: The Family Research Council has said that there is a “growing hostility” to... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 SOCIETY

• Standby for Another High Tech Lynching

  

  You're going to hear the name Tristan Breaux frequently in the coming days.  He's the Norfolk, Va NAACP President and his blackness will soon be questioned: It... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 SOCIETY

• "I'm Happy That at the End of the Day I Can Walk Away with My Integrity"

  

  Former Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee is speaking out about the Zimmerman case and what he's saying suggests more strongly than ever that this entire episode... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 SOCIETY