Saturday, December 31, 2016

Unpopular Professional Thoughts

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One of the things that I've found the most vexatious in my career as a parish priest is when parents stop coming to church with their c...

I Will Not Make Any Deals With You

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It Just Became January 1st in Sydney

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Not too many weeks ago, this was the view from my residence.

Hogmanay

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How is New Year’s Eve celebrated in Scotland?

It's Not Like Middle-Eastern Christians are Being Invited to the United States

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Christians laud freedom of worship in Israel Whereas Christian communities throughout the Middle East are declining, in Israel they are gr...

One Character in Search of WiFi

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I'm moving this week and have yet to set up WiFi or cable/satellite or anything else at the new location, so posting will be intermitten...

Moving Music

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Friday, December 30, 2016

Since I Haven't A Church Right Now, I Get To Do This on New Year's Day

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How to survive a polar bear plunge (and why you shouldn't do one) Ridiculous.  One should do dangerous, potentially mortal things from...

The Rediscovery of Merton

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Fetters & Freedom: On Thomas Merton’s vision of transcendence through faith. I've had my own appreciation for some time.

Swell

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David Allegretti and his mate Sean conducted a little experiment, and they were shocked by the results. They bought a few hi-vis vests and t...

Sounds Like Someone's Office Phone was Melting

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Murphy Blasts U.N. On Israel Vote, Criticizes Obama  It appears our junior senator has been reminded of how many Israel-supporting Democra...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

What a World

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From Churchgoers to Military: ISIS 'Kill Lists' Explained

I'm Used to Ignorance, but I Don't Care Much for Disregard

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The Atlantic: Democrats Have a Religion Problem  I don't care much for hostility towards my faith, either.  Certainly, it's not a...

He Did What Had Been Impossible

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I appreciate that celebrity deaths tend to claim our consciousness, especially this time of year, but Henderson did something that no one ha...

History Majors in the U.S. No Longer Have to Study U.S. History

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History majors no longer have to take foreign language classes or classes on European, North American and U.S. history and can choose to spe...

Guess the State

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Stopped motorist handed 5-year-old son sippy cup with wine, police say
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

I'm Glad I'm Not the Only One to Notice How Redundant Joseph Seems to Be These Days

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The Gospel of Luke is what most people seem to associate with the Nativity and Christmas. But the Gospel of Matthew has an important point ...

Cholly Isn't the Sharpest Knife in the Royal Drawer

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In a message recorded December 19 at St. James's Palace, Britain's Prince Charles admonished his subjects to consider the millions o...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Thalassotherapy

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Why swimming in the sea is good for you

A Stray Thought

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What I like about the post-Christmas Day part of the Christmas season is that all of the secularists and functional atheists now forget abou...