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Notre Dame’s President Jenkins Announces Pro-Life Initiative; Will Also Attend March for Life
Perhaps Notre Dame President John Jenkins has decided to finally get around to having Notre Dame put its money where its mouth is in regard to the university’s alleged...
Forget About the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, and the Council on Foreign Relations …
. . . meet ” The Elders ”. (Hat tip: Notes on the Culture Wars and LES FEMMES – THE TRUTH ) When it comes to secret societies of...
“Roots” Music for the Fourth
Despite the title, the purpose of this post is not to engage in the ongoing discussion regarding “roots” music and “localism”, etc. Instead, I hope to offer some alternatives...
President to Give Author of Spe Salvi Pointers on “Hope”
Or something like that . “Pope Greets Hope”? Apparently, Pope Benedict only thought he knew something about hope. Then he met the very embodiment of that particular theological virtue.
Re: Hating Ulysses
In many ways, I share Joe’s antipathy toward James Joyce’s Ulysses . But I must confess to having something of a love-hate relationship with Joyce’s novel, which relates in tedious detail a day...
Is “Reproductive Choice” Resulting in Fewer Girls Being Born in the U.S.?
(Hat tip: Dale Price ) A post at Hot Air reports on a study indicating that sex-selective methods of birth control are becoming more prevalent in the U.S., resulting...
The Road Goes on Forever and the Party Never Ends
A week from today, I am traveling to my home state of Texas to visit my best friend who lives in San Antonio. While I’m there, we’ll be going...
Should Catholic Supreme Court Justices Recuse Themselves on Certain Cases?
See this interesting post at The American Catholic: ” Supreme Court Justices and Religion ”. To ask some questions is to answer them, and via Commonweal , I see that...
