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Saudi Arabia Warned U.S. of Boston Bomber, White House Denies
Interesting news coming from across the pond: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sent a written warning about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2013 SOCIETY -
“Sometimes When You’re Silent You Can Hear Her, You Can Sense Her.”
Wisdom from the womb: In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replies, “Why, of course. Ther... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2013 SOCIETY -
When the Message Received Clashes with the Message Attempted
Leave in the comments the message you received after reading this: Students at Carnegie Mellon say it’s freedom of expression, but the Catholic Diocese of... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2013 SOCIETY -
No Mo Tebow
At least in New York. Stand by for ridicule and hatred as this fine man leaves town: Tim Tebow couldn't get any playing time last season when the New York Jets... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2013 SOCIETY -
Why the Media Silence on the Gosnell Abortion Murders?
Amy Welborn with the blunt answer most are afraid to provide: Because they didn’t think what he was doing was immoral. Embarrassing, maybe. Awkward,... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2013 SOCIETY -
Love, Respect AND... Clear Expectations
Cardinal Dolan is talking about what we get in The Church: It was a lesson I began to learn when I was seven or eight . . . My buddy Freddie from across the... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2013 SOCIETY -
"Priests Are No Longer Considered to Be Emergency Responders."
A friend yesteday filled me in on what follows and it's seriously troubling in my view: The heart-wrenching photographs taken in the moments after the Boston... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2013 SOCIETY -
Abortion-Supporter-in-Chief
I don't think you can get any more in your face about it: President Barack Obama vowed Friday to join Planned Parenthood in fighting against what he said are... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2013 SOCIETY -
"The Problem is Not Inadequate Laws, but a Growing Spiritual Vacuum at the...
Charles Lehardy is talking stress cracks and to what those cracks might lead: A stress crack — mix time, pressure, slight movements of the earth, perhaps some... Read more
Posted on 26 April 2013 SOCIETY -
‘An Absurd Dichotomy’
For many years after my adolescence and again after leaving the Episcopal Church more than a decade ago, I did not attend Church regularly. Read more
Posted on 26 April 2013 SOCIETY -
“Everyone Has to Hold Hands on This and Jump, Or Nothing is Going to Get Done.”
If only they were talking about jumping the hell off a cliff: Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exemptin... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2013 SOCIETY -
"Since There Was a Big Bang, There Must Be a Big Banger"
Peter Kreeft is talking reason and faith and how, in the end, it takes a ton more of the latter to be an atheist (despite the point attempting to be made in... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2013 SOCIETY -
You See, We Should All Be More Tolerant
And the best way to advance the cause of tolerance is to be... you know... intolerant: Topless activists of the protest movement FEMEN took aim at the Catholic... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2013 SOCIETY -
Prayers for "Katherine Russell That She Escape This Cult Now That Her Jailer is...
That from Mark Shea as he links to a piece likely seen as problematic in the eyes of many but most bluntly proper in my own: At this moment the dominant theme o... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2013 SOCIETY -
"A Limited Cultural Imagination Has Made Appeals to Marriage as an Institution...
John Stonestreet over at LifeSiteNews is making some sense: The writer Upton Sinclair, commenting on his loss in the 1934 California gubernatorial election,... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2013 SOCIETY -
No WMDs in Iraq, but at Least Two in Boston
The disconnect here is unreal: Federal prosecutors charged badly wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his hospital bed on Monday with... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2013 SOCIETY -
"There's a Pantheon of Foreign Gods Waiting to Grant Our Wishes..."
Fr. Philip Powell calls what follows a rant. I call it truth. Read it and inwardly digest it: These anxious times offer us a huge selection of false gods to... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2013 SOCIETY -
“He Had an Anger Inside. … I Can’t Explain What Was in His Mind.”
Interesting side note about the older Boston bomber: The 26-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings who was killed Friday was kicked out of a Cambridge... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2013 SOCIETY -
Take Something Meaningful and Beautiful... and Cheapen It
Leave it to popular culture: Ali Landry — Pope Cops a Feel The Pope's only been on the job a month ... and already he's getting touchy-feely. Read more
Posted on 22 April 2013 SOCIETY -
"I Do Not Believe Women Are Equal to Men"
That from Fr. Longenecker: Somehow or other a combox critic has assumed that because I have asserted that men and women are different that I do not believe in... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2013 SOCIETY
