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The Daily News has more details On the day Laura DeFilippo was caught on camera with Msgr. Eugene Clark at a Hamptons motel, she allegedly had told her husband they were heading to a storage facility 30 miles away in Riverhead, L.I., to sort through some books. Instead, the telltale tape made by her husband’s…

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Congrats to Matthew Lickona and Mark Gavreau Judge for being touted by George Weigel in his most recent column! Having survived the silly season, Matthew Lickona and Mark Judge have built integral, exciting Catholic lives despite the collapse of intact Catholic culture in the United States. Growing up in the intensely Catholic culture of Bavaria,…

An interview with the author, Rabbi David Dalin Do you remember how you first became interested in the controversy about Pius XII’s actions during World War II? I’d always heard about Pius XII, but in 2000 . . . I was asked to write a book review for The Weekly Standard. . . . At…

A nice page introducing some favorites An article I wrote about this type of character several years ago – so please don’t complain about broken links within the text. Someday, when my children are grown, I’ll go back through everything and fix the links on all of my old web pages. Hah.

This post is for any and all who’ve sought me out based on recent buzzing about the Da Vinci Code movies. I’ll repost it at the top o’ the blog tomorrow night after the Paula Zahn show. …if you’ve gone to all the trouble to search for me and come upon this humble blog. If…

Well, someone has figured out how to get me on cable news without necessitating a trip to South Bend. I just returned from a local television station where I taped a segment for CNN’s Paula Zahn show that will air tomorrow night. More than 5 seconds, I think. I’ll tell you more about it after…

Because this deserves it: Cologne Cardinal on WYD, Kung, and others In an in interview on the preparations for World Youth Day, the hosting archbishop, Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, said the event is a gathering for young people, not for “the people of yesterday” such as dissident theologians Eugen Drewermann or Hans Küng. In…

From CT, how students from an evangelical high school built a clinic and more.. Eighteen-year-old Lauren Tomasik had a vision. This Wheaton Academy senior wanted to see her Christian high school raise $75,000 to build a medical clinic in Zambia to combat HIV/AIDS. And she wanted the money to come from the pockets of her…

That hell just got cooler. A NYtimes piece on the declared opponent to Hillary Clinton contains forbidden words in the lede: Jeanine F. Pirro, the new Republican challenger for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat, said yesterday that she opposed the procedure that critics call partial-birth abortion, after taking a muddier stance on the issue four…

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