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Three recent articles about Down’s Syndrome and people who live with it: A mom reacts to the recent call by the ACOG to do Down Syndrome testing on all pregnancies: She was a fresh-faced young woman with a couple of adorable kids, whiling away an hour in the sandbox at the park near my home.…

I can blog this because, well… At Wal-Mart today, getting some boots for Joseph. Who can, surprisingly, no longer wear the hand-me down Mickey Mouse boots he’s had since he was two. A family of mother, father and two older boys strolled around, looking at some boots one the boys apparently wanted. Father had an…

The Free Press’s excellent David Crumm turns in an extensive piece on the growth of Orthodox churches. The impetus for the piece is apparently a conference: Social scholars say the churches are growing in the United States through immigration and conversion. Next week, many of Detroit’s Orthodox leaders will host the first in a series…

Okay, so I said last week would be the last one until Lent. I lied. I thought it would be interesting to hear if any of you heard any kind of allusions to life issues this past Sunday. Not that it’s required, mind you, but since tomorrow is the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade,…

Apologist Dave Armstrong is offering one of his e-books,  Bible Conversations: Catholic-Protestant Dialogues on the Bible, Tradition, and Salvation at no cost, and his others are very reasonably priced. Check out the Catholic Medical Student Blog from Patrick Beeman (who’s written several pieces for This Rock), who writes: I am aiming at providing a forum…

The Diocese of Fr. Fay: The pastor of St. Michael Church resigned after a preliminary financial audit uncovered more than $500,000 in spending that the Archdiocese of Bridgeport is still trying to account for, officials announced yesterday. Bishop William Lori told St. Michael’s parishioners yesterday that he asked for and received the resignation of their…

The Pope, at today’s Angelus: Christians are “heirs to past divisions,” but “Christ can do anything, he ‘makes the deaf hear and (the) mute speak’ (Mk 7, 37),” he can instil in Christian the ardent desire to listen to and communicate with one another and speak together with Him the language of mutual love.” It…

Yesterday was the third annual West Coast March for Life out in San Francisco Here’s the SF Chronicle Report This year’s rally included an invocation by San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, whose prayer asked God to "renew a readiness (among people) to nurture and sustain your precious gift of life." While speakers at Justin Herman…

Thanks to a reader (I forgot who!) who pointed us to this week’s edition of the BBC radio program In Our Time, which this week concerns the Jesuits: Today we’re discussing the Jesuits, a Catholic religious order of priests who became known as “the school masters of Europe”. Founded in the 16th century by the…
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