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  • Well, this is kind of interesting. I knew I had basically no accent (other than saying "wicked" every once in a while). Thanks, sis, for this. Your Linguistic Profile:70% General American English20% Yankee5% Dixie5% Upp…

  • Benedict Changes Long-Standing Vatican Policy (APed) After several huge helpings of dialogue with the American Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI announced today that he is changing the long-standing Vatican po…

  • Habemus papam! (we have a pope) And it's Ratzinger. Way to go, cardinals! The press and the West tend to give this guy a real hard time because he's so faithful to the teaching of the church. He got called "Cardinal No"…

  • The problem with Christian social teaching is that we get bogged down in the government vs private/voluntary dichotomy. We insist that opposition to the welfare state means that we throw all social assistance to churches…

  • From Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain: "All you need to become a saint is to want to become one."

  • I've realized something I really hate: old people handing out carts at Wal-Mart. How is it in any way consistent with their biblical dignity as elderly persons to have to pretend to be my lackey, doing a useless, stupid …

  • I dislike the idea of art for art's sake, because once art is completely severed from Nature - from what is, from the truth - then it abandons us to our own tiny worldviews, worldviews that by themselves are unable adequ…

  • How cool is this? As I do not feel particularly in the need of dicey "proofs" of Christ's resurrection, I've always found the Shroud of Turin to be more interesting for the question of how a forger could do it than whet…

  • Logic 101 Once again, the media shows a particular religious blindness. They keep suggesting that John Paul II was unable to break from his hidebound, traditionalist Polish upbringing and bring Christian sexual ethic…

  • It looks like Pope John Paul II is dying. Let us pray for him. I, for one, have also asked God to pass along a message to him when he arrives in glory to pray for me. (If that sounds odd to you, remember that no …

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