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Quote of the day
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jmcgee
“I want to say to anyone who has been hurt by any failure on my part that I apologise to you with all my heart. I also apologise to all those who feel I have let them down. Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and…
“Follow the fellow who follows a dream…”
By
jmcgee
For St. Patrick’s Day: a classic that, while not exactly Irish, certainly has the Emerald Isle in its heart. (Aside: my wife, Irish to the core, sang this at our wedding reception, and it never fails to plant a lump in my throat.) This rendition, featuring the astonishing Shane Warby, is just beautiful. Give a…
Does universal health care reduce abortions?
By
jmcgee
Here’s one provocative take on the debate now raging in this country, from T.R. Reid in the Washington Post: The latest United Nations comparative statistics, available at http://data.un.org, demonstrate the point clearly. The U.N. data measure the number of abortions for women ages 15 to 44. They show that Canada, for example, has 15.2 abortions…
What did Benedict really do?
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jmcgee
Andrew Sullivan just lobbed this grenade into the blogosphere: A priest is discovered to have been actively molesting children. His superior is notified in 1980. One of the things he is told of is the priest’s forcing an 11 year old boy to perform oral sex on him. The superior does not contact the police.…
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