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“As so many of us know, the dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process. It is also a very personal and private one. Because Mark and I are public figures, we have naturally had less privacy with which to deal with our difficulties than do other couples. Indeed, I know it will…

If you couldn’t get enough of their inspired “Bohemian Rhapsody“, here’s a little holiday chaser for you. H/T to Fr. Austin Murphy.

This is guaranteed to pick you up. A delightful video created by an Oregon hospital to raise awareness about breast cancer.  The e-mail I got with this said: “Our daughter-in-law,  Emily (MacInnes) Somers, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness.  This was all…

This terrific video says it all — and beautifully. H/T Mark Shea

That seems to be the conclusion of a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Among other things, it finds that nearly six in 10 Americans from all religions blend their faith with New Age and Eastern beliefs, like astrology, reincarnation, and the spiritual – not just physical – benefits of…

What makes a man want to become a military chaplain? A Wisconsin paper has one moving answer: Capt. Matt Foley hasn’t presided over any weddings or christenings since he arrived here in April – not much call for those services in a war zone. But the Army chaplain and Catholic priest who spent much of…

“No Holy War can ever be a just war. For if you truly believe that you are carrying out divine will, then there is no need for restraint — no need to spare the pregnant mother, or the medic, or the Red Cross worker, or even a person of one’s own faith. Such a warped…

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. “  — Thomas Merton, who died on this date in 1968.   It was also on this date that he entered…

I got the impression that Patrick Kennedy wanted to put his clash with Bishop Tobin behind him and move on, but some commentators just won’t let it rest. The latest to add his two cents is Timothy Egan from the New York Times: In a terse exchange of letters, the bishop said it was “inappropriate”…

That would be the story of Christ and his church.  And it’s the story we’re trying to tell at New Evangelization Television (NET).   Yesterday, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, we marked our one-year anniversary of “putting out into the deep”.  And this little video helps tell the tale.  (Warning: Your Humble Blogger…
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