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Is Raymond Arroyo of EWTN. Last night, he was interviewed by Aaron Brown on CNN: Last week, Raymond Arroyo had a home, a flourishing family restaurant in New Orleans and a brand new baby girl. Today his daughter is 14 days old and her father is facing the fact that he has lost almost everything…

This is what I meant by what the human beings can do to an already distressed, terminal city

A Knight-Ridder wire story on what’s gone from the Mississippi coastline now…

Please go read this blog of a young mother who is fighting cancer with an astonishing spirit and awesome strength. People often personify cancer, and after yesterday I completely understood why. Cancer is like an obnoxious person at a party who won’t allow you to escape the conversation. A houseguest who can’t take the hint…

From the Times UK: In 2002 Hung-Ching Liu, at Cornell University, in the United States, announced that her team had successfully grown a sample of cells from the lining of a human uterus and had used tissue engineering technologies to shape them like a womb. When a fertilised human egg was introduced into the womb,…

The Christ-Haunted blogger notes an odd course at a Buddhist "university."

I’m a firm believer in David Scott’s ethos of "I am the worst liturgical abuse at any Mass," a conviction also expressed by my husband in his books, but this note from commentor Toni was too, er..good to resist. If by "good" you mean "makes you want to bang your head against a wall." Text…

A reader sends along this link to a WaPo story on state regulation of abortion and comments: In the print edition, this was on the front page of the Post, below the fold.  What I find most amazing about it is what I would almost call the innocence of the reporter.  She seems utterly unaware…

From Time: The yoga teacher sits in a lotus position atop a polished wooden platform. Behind her, verdant woods are visible through panoramic windows. Gentle music tinkles from overhead speakers. Two dozen students in spandex outfits, most of them women, settle onto purple and blue mats to begin the class with ujjayi, a breathing exercise.…

I’m going to clean out my email box now, since I’m too uptight to sleep. So here goes. First, a question from a reader: My daughter thinks she is a charismatic Catholic girl, but with her boyfriend has taken to soaking up Kenneth Copeland cds. And Joyce Meyers. They say it is the same Christ,…

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