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Sunday, May 22, 2016

When a Royal Physician Killed a King to Get His Death into the Morning News--Euthanasia Story #1

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Almost thirty years ago, news broke on November 27, 1986 that Queen Elizabeth II's grandfather had been involuntarily euthanized fifty y...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Dante, Rod Dreher, and Medusa

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Medusa by Bernini (1630s or 1640s), Capitoline Museums, Rome Anyone who thinks of leaving the Catholic Church, perhaps for similar reaso...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Ever Hear of the Agatha Christie Indult? It's a Fascinating Story

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Agatha Christi in her 80s, in the early 1970s, around when the so-called indult was nicknamed after her At some point in my browsing arou...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Bishop Kung Was Tricky That Way

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During the night of September 8, 1955, which is the feast of the birth of Mary in the traditional calendar, Ignatius Ping-Mei Kung, Shangha...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016

I Once Was Lapsed, and Now I'm Relapsed

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I was raised Catholic, but started being lured away from the faith when I was about 15. The root cause of my eventual loss of faith was esse...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Thanks for the Memories, Mother Angelica (Part IV: How God-Incidence, Not Co-incidence, Brought Me to Alabama)

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Like a bolt from the blue one day, the acquisition of the computer company where I worked in the San Francisco Bay Area by a company in Alab...

Thanks for the Memories, Mother Angelica (Part III: Mother Angelica Becomes a Role Model for Raymond Arroyo, and for Me)

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On January 28, 2006, I saw Raymond Arroyo, EWTN News Director, gave a side-splitting talk about his experiences writing his best-selling bi...