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Michael the Toddler (almost 3!) has learned many lessons in his brief life so far. One of them is that when you sneeze, people say either “bless you” or “Gesundheit.” So he responds in kind, politely. He has also absorbed the lesson that something similar happens when you cough. The response to a cough is…

Oh, okay we have our problems with so many facets of the BBC, radio included, but there’s much quality there – Rich Leonardi points us to a series from Eamon Duffy on “Ten Popes Who Changed the World.”  You can’t download, but they’re only 15 minutes each, so easy listening at the computer. He begins,…

William Doino, in First Things: Tomorrow, on October 26, the Catholic hero Franz Jägerstätter will be beatified in Linz, Austria. Executed in 1943 for refusing to serve in Hitler’s army, Jägerstätter was once known only to his relatives and neighbors—many of whom considered him mad. Born out of wedlock in 1907 in the tiny village…

Folks are doing some Crispin-blogging today, posting Shakespeare and such. Because they’re noble and erudite.  For my part, I ran across this fascinating artifact – how one cartoonist in Harper’s Weekly used St. Crispin to make a bigoted, fearmongering anti-immigration…er…statement back in 1870.
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