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Month: August 2021

Loves Endures Forever: A Reflection on What Matters

The law of the world, the law of fallen nature, is the law of the jungle. What matters is power, prestige, and prowess. Only the strong survive. There are countless personal development gurus only too happy to tell you how to explode your stock portfolio, shred your physique, double your productivity, or attract more women—for […]

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Flak Catchers and Shepherds

A secretary interrupts a busy executive’s schedule announcing the visit of a salesman. The executive growls, “Tell him I’m busy!” and he goes back to practicing his putt. The secretary politely tells the salesman that […]

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Justice Department sues Texas as it tries to halt transport of migrants

The Biden administration filed a lawsuit July 30 against the state of Texas, trying to stop enforcement of an order aimed at migrants that it calls “dangerous and unlawful.”

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‘Someone’s got to stand up for what’s right for kids’

This summer Melissa Dan officially took the helm as president of Hill-Murray School in Maplewood, a position that brought the longtime educator back to her home state after a decade away — and close to her parents, in-laws and best friends from grade school, the now-closed Holy Childhood in St. Paul. A mother and a member of Nativity of Our Lord in St. Paul, Dan is eager to implement the school’s new strategic plan.

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U.S. bishops among agencies helping resettle Afghan translators, interpreters

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its Migration and Refugee Services “are proud to have the opportunity to welcome and assist those who have kept Americans safe in Afghanistan,” said the USCCB president and the chairman of the bishops’ migration committee July 30.

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Pope names new members to Academy of Sciences

Pope Francis has appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences an epidemiologist credited with handling Taiwan’s response to COVID-19, a global expert in atmospheric chemistry credited with helping to explain the cause of the “hole” in the ozone layer over Antarctic in the 1980s and a Canadian Nobel laureate in physics who works with lasers.

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Three Eusebii

Names can be confusing in history, for significant figures often share the same name – There have been eighteen kings Louis in France; eight kings Henry in England and six kings James in Scotland; eleven emperors Constantine in – where else – Constantinople; and six presidents James in the United States. I may add that[…]

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A Couple of Podcasts: Grace and Pearce

I was interviewed recently by Mrs. Bonnie Landry, who hosts a delightful, informative and very popular podcast. The target audience is mothers, especially those still raising children, but many topics would be helpful to others. Our own discussion was on the nature of grace, a propos on this memorial of the first universal plenary indulgence[…]

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The Meaning of the Universe, or Non-meaning – and is there anything beyond the Big Bang

An excellent article in The Catholic Thing this morning. Is there any meaning out there or are the “nones” and atheistic scientists correct that the universe is not as our cosmic home, but as an immense, indifferent, dead, absurd, hostile place – as is now the assumed background of our whole society. If there is […]

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