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A varia post, filled with tidbits from email and the blogs…then I’ll be tiptoing out of here for a while. Just expect the most sporadic blogging until mid-July, and then who knows what after that. <\/p>\n

Ed Peters looks closely at the Kennedy annulment story and finds it may not be what it seems. What it might be instead, isn’t any less murky<\/a><\/p>\n

The cultural illiteracy of the easy atheists.<\/a><\/p>\n

A reader writes:<\/p>\n

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I write now to request that you consider mentioning the new DVD called <\/em>"Champions of Faith: Baseball Edition."   <\/em><\/a> It’s an hour-long documentary on the Catholic faith of various contemporary baseball players, coaches, and managers.  I watched it last night and found it to be outstanding.  It’s really well produced, engaging to watch, and not heavy-handed in its presentation of the faith in these lives.  I have a 13-year-old son, and I think it would be perfect for boys his age.  In fact, I’m going to give it to his Catholic school and ask that it be shown there.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Coalition for Life in Texas writes:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Coalition for Life presents beingHUMAN<\/em>, a powerful thirty minute program that explores pro-life activism. This exciting documentary-style series gives witness to everyday people who are working to give a voice to the unborn. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The program will be aired on EWTN on Monday at 6:30 eastern – more information at the link.<\/p>\n

From another reader:<\/p>\n

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Interesting info:  The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has started a facebook group called "The Great Canadian Wish List."  On it, you can support or create any wish that you have for Canada’s future.  Suprisingly, given that this is Canada<\/span>, the group "Abolish Abortion in Canada<\/span>" is in the lead by about a thousand supporters, with "Keep Canada<\/span> Pro-Choice" in second place, "For a Spiritual Revival in Canada<\/span>" in third place, and "Restore the Traditional Definition of Marriage" in fourth.  CBC is very liberal, so I’m sure they’re going nuts that this is happening and it’s really very public.  They’re going to announce the most popular wish on July 1st (Canada Day) and there has already been much coverage in the news.  This is an interesting story because it’s mostly young people on facebook, so yeah, go young generation!!  \ud83d\ude42  <\/div>\n
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I know you have Canadian readers and they have friends who are Canadian, and if we could just get the word out to people to join facebook and join this group, CBC will have to give this tons of coverage and who knows what will happen?  So on to my request – could you post on this?  I think this little facebook movement has the chance to really change things in Canada<\/span>.  Here is the Facebook link.<\/a><\/div>\n
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On 60 Minutes<\/em> this Sunday:<\/a><\/div>\n
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This coming Sunday, June 24th, CBS’s "60 Minutes" will be re-airing a December 3, 2006, edition about Immacul\u00e9e Ilibagiza, survivor of the 1994 massacre in Rwanda and author of <\/em> Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust<\/span><\/em><\/a>. The "60 Minutes" feature will reportedly have new footage of what has been going on in Rwanda since the program was filmed there in June 2006.  It will also have clips of Immacul\u00e9e, who is Catholic, speaking at the Rose Bowl last month before nearly 60,000 people, and then receiving an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Notre Dame the next day.<\/em> <\/div>\n
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