Interesting that this morning it seemed unlikely that a verdict would come, and this afternoon, on the Feastday of Our Lady of Fatima, suddenly the jury decided: The jury in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell returned a verdict and found him guilty on three of the four first-degree murder charges he faced.Gosnell was found guilty of killing Baby A, Baby C and Baby D and found not guilty of killing Baby E.
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Photojournalists love to capture politicians with backlighting, or standing before round seals and symbols; it helps the subject to stand out, of course, and where presidents are concerned the dramatic halo effect might be making a sincere or ironic editorial point. I wonder if there is something subconscious about it, though; do we need to see our president regardless of party, as someone with a connection to the divine?Politicians are as susceptible to believing their own hype as anyone else, but when they do it affects all of us.
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Perhaps America Needs Peggy Olsen to Serve its Inner Don Draper
We’ve talked before about my love for Guinness.
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Not picking on Hillary, but since there is no Situation Room pic from night of attack…There is an argument I am seeing show up pretty regularly on Twitter.
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Deacon Greg features this with thoughts on the importance of second chances, and that’s certainly part of this bit with Governor Christie and Former Governor McGreevey, both in context and subtext. But I’m seeing something else.I see an increasingly recurrent theme being given expression here, but it’s one coming from various corners, and with a little room, and a little attention, it could possibly restore both our national equilibrium and our church-wide, spiritual balance, as well
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What do you think?Every Christian Star Trek fan recalls Stardate 4041.7. That was the day that I realised that, with very few exceptions, Star Trek is consistently the most pro-Christian and pro-Catholic show in American television history.The quintessential science fiction television programme by which all others are judged has had a number of permutations over the past 40 years: The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager and, most recently, Enterprise.
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“Outside of the subway, Catholic mass is the only place I have had that experience of diversity.”— Danusha Goska, Save Send DeleteSo, a month ago Julie Davis — our dear, delightful bookworm, Jules, who is such a Happy Catholic — made a kindle-gift to me of that book you see here, Save Send Delete, and I was caught somewhere between “thank you, that’s so sweet” and “why are you sending me more to read, don’t you know I have more reading than I can keep up with, already?”I can be a real ingrate like that, sometimes.Well, I did thank her and a few nights ago I finally started the book and well…yes…you should read it; I now perfectly understand why Julie has been raving about it, and calling it one of her 10 Best Books of the Year, and why Jeff Miller concurred in his review. This is a splendid and insightful and fun novel (in the way only epistolary novels can be really voyeuristically fun) that is lyrically written
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:::WARNING: The very funny and insightful essay and link I am about to present to you contains a variation of the “S” word and several renderings of the “F” word.
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A terrible story yields a diamond:On Tuesday, CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Ramsey what it felt like to find out that he had been living next to kidnapping victims.“See, that’s why now I’m having trouble sleeping,” he explained.
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My husband pretty famously teases (and sometimes rants) about the number of books that arrive here and get placed into shaky “I’m going to read this as soon as I can!” piles all around my office. Normally when he grouses, I say, “oh, pshaw!” but the number of books that have arrived here over the past two weeks is rather astonishing, and to his credit, the dear man (who is better than I deserve) has only shaken his head in sadness, and moved along.But these are good books — some for men, some for women, some for everyone — and with Mothers Day and Fathers Day coming, I thought I’d show them to you, because they’ll make great gifts, and they’re also potentially great summer reads!Because Mother’s Day is just ahead and you may still need a gift, let’s start with Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle’s Catholic Mom’s Cafe; a 5 Minute Retreat for Every Day of the Year
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Well, in a manner of speaking. I hope when I die, my kids can manage to produce something as wry and fun as this:Waffle House lost a loyal customer on April 30, 2013.
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Since they seem to be recurring themes in my life and my writing, last week I had occasion to again contemplate idols and idolatry and also the way bullies operate.
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The neighborhood where I grew up was a block of “mutts”, and my own family boasted Irish-Italian-English-Scots-German muttage, but if you asked any of us “what are you?” the answer, our answer would have been “Catholic” and our Catholicism precluded all of our other labels, including “American.” Our culture was American, yes, but it was first-and-foremost “Catholic”. We didn’t have a flag hanging out the door, but we had a Saint Jude on the doorstep, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the kitchen
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The header is true! May is the month for all of that; it’s also the month for First Communions and weddings and graduations.
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I wonder if the Holy Spirit is trying to tell us something..Pope Francis has been talking about idols lately, and now we see the word creep into a secular headline: Book: Obama surrounds self with ‘idolizers,’ plots legacy with scholars.A revealing new book from one of the media’s longest serving White House correspondents reports that President Obama surrounds himself only with “idolizers,” and top aides make sure that those whose view might “shake him up too much” are shoved aside.In Prisoners of the White House, the Isolation of America’s Presidents and the Crisis of Leadership U.S. News correspondent Kenneth T
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“You will set the world on fire…” Catherine echoed in Pope Francis
When Maria Johnson invited me to come and chat with the gang at SPQN’s Catholic Weekend, I said “sure” without really knowing what to expect.
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Here is Yale alum Leah Libresco responding with vigor to Keli Goff’s recent article entitled “Female Ivy League graduates have a duty to stay in the workforce”:Goff assumes that women who leave the workforce will cease to use the education that they paid for, but there’s nowhere you can go that learning about beauty and citizenship and character and tradition aren’t relevant. The liberal arts are supposed to have taken up philosophy’s mantle as preparation for death — the study of how we should live
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“You can have an education, I guess, but not one as good as mine…”
I am seriously of the opinion that there is not a single office-holder in Washington who deserves either our respect or our trust and yesterday they managed to win the trifecta of utter elitist shamelessness and privilege:1) Washington DC Airports Spared Sequester Impacts. Our betters mustn’t be made to wait; delays for you but not for them.2) Obama’s $3 Million Cap on Retirement Accounts Would Not Apply to Him
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