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Slow Traveling
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awelborn
I’ve bought my share of guidebooks, yeah, and have been studying them. What’s made the best reading, though, are the two older books linked over there on the right – A Traveller in Rome and A Companion Guide to Rome. The Morton is quite wonderful – His walks around Rome, historical asides and discourses, encounters…
Do no harm
By
awelborn
California execution process under, er, fire: The Morales furor began a week ago when U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel declared that California’s three-stage drug cocktail of a sedative, paralytic drug and heart-stopping chemical — the same protocol used in 37 of the 38 states with lethal injection — could mask, rather than eliminate, an inmate’s…
Everyone’s favorite topic..
By
awelborn
…besides liturgy…airport security, of course. Peggy Noonan muses that the UAE port outrage seems a bit out of sync, considering the continuing messes of misplaced resources at airport security lines She’s got stories to tell. Everyone’s got one at least. Here’s mine, told here before: Our Fort Wayne airport is small – 8 gates, I…
On the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter
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awelborn
Yesterday, in his general audience, the Pope embarked upon his "own" catechesis – up to this point, his GA talks had been continuing the planned themes of John Paul II – that catechesis was completed last week, and now, we’ve got Benedict on his own. Here’s the text of yesterday’s talk – and it is…
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