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…but that’s a problem, implies this WaPo article on the status of abortion in the state of South Dakota. At The Corner Tim Graham points out: When I talk to college students, I cite this kind of an article to explain that reporting isn’t "pro-choice," it’s pro-abortion. When you think something like this is a…

My other baby, my laptop, aka my readers’ gift to me from last March, is not well. It’s been sent off to Toshiba today, leaving me for the next couple of weeks with Michael’s laptop, which does the job, but is slow. I don’t quite get why, but it is. So…my priorities will be email,writing,…

This is not online (yet), but David Deavel’s piece in the current Touchstone is well worth a read if you can find a copy – or decide to subscribe. It’s beautiful, sad, and comforting.

A local paper’s account of the funeral service for Alejandra Guttierez, missing, then found murdered.

USAToday story on Google’s service of providing free ad space to non-profits. Two years ago, non-profit director Ray Rickman decided to put up a website to attract donors for his cause: raising money to pay doctors to treat people in Africa and Asia. His Providence-based AdoptADoctor.org attracted just two visitors a day, and one donation…

Used to be that the big post-Christmas complaint was assembly of all those toys. Forget that. Of late, the major annoyance of children’s gifts are those blasted little wires tying the toys to the impenetrable packaging. Joseph got some Star Wars thing – Luke Skywalker on a flying thing – not tiny, but not huge,…

Pontifications hasbeen posting wonderful excerpts from the likes of John Donne and Leo the Great for the season.

Here’s the Vatican page at which you’ll find (eventually) links to all of the Pope’s homilies and addresses for the Christmas season And, among the many messages of late, we might have missed these simple, direct words to a gathering of young Dutch Catholics: Dear friends, Jesus is your true friend and Lord; enter into…

Revelations, accusations and counter-accusations: The next morning, Bozek returned to the pulpit, this time with a different homily. "It seems so many things happen by accident, that paths cross by accident," he said. "But that is the mystery of our faith – nothing happens without a reason." With a startling revelation, he signaled to his…

Big uptick in seminarians

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