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Month: February 2020

Citing staggering backlog, attorneys ask for independent immigration court

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Lawmakers heard about the lack of resources, including lack of working audio and video equipment, lack of access to language interpretation and overall the staggering backlog of 1 million cases and countless lives tied up in the nation’s immigration courts.

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A Lesson in Realism for Iran

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According to many pundits and prognosticators, the targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was going to precipitate World War III. And if not that, it would certainly land us in a quagmire like the […]

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A Flight into Reality

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Anthony Esolen: The fantasies of Tolkien and Undset reveal reality, when we spend most of our time running away from it. We are beguiled into truth.

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The Heart of a Priest

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"There is an incident in the life of John Vianney that has been largely overlooked even by his principal biographers. It is an event that reveals another, deeper, and more painful wound in the heart of the Cure of Ars. I suspect that somehow it ma…

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A Flight Into Reality

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“The fantasy of Tolkien, then, is a flight into reality, when we spend most of our time running away from it. We are beguiled into truth, but not as an allegorist may fool us with symbols for a while. We enter Middle-Earth neither knowing nor caring overmuch where it will lead us, but because it is a real-world, observing the real and unalterable moral laws of the created order, it leads us into our own world through the hobbit-holes and dwarf-hewn tunnels and eagle-flights of Tolkien’s imagination.”

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The Richness of Many Years

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On January 31, 2020, Pope Francis received in audience, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the participants in the First International Congress on the pastoral care of the elderly on the theme "The richness of many years", organized by the Dic…

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On the Beatitudes

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The January 29, 2020, General Audience was held in Paul VI Hall, where the Pope Francis met with groups of pilgrims and faithful from Italy and from all over the world. In his address in Italian, the Pope began a new series of catecheses on the Beatitu…

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St. Brigid of Ireland

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Born in Ireland in the year 450 to parents who had been baptized by Saint Patrick, Brigid even as a child showed interest in the religious life. Sometimes referred to incorrectly as Bridget, Brigid was the daughter of an Irish chieftan; her mother, Brocca, had been a slave at his court. There were many good influences […]

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