Author: Tom Faranda

I’ve excerpted the first quote below the link  – the third excerpt (of three) really lays out the Catholic Worker political and economic thoughts – but you’ll need to hit the link to read it, and it’s laid out as bullet points. The author of this posting is a professor and dean in the Villanova…

I have no clue. Either of them could win by 5%. Clinton has the organization, media and Wall Street, Trump has the enthusiasm. I got the following off a facebook posting by a friend of mine named Mike (not my college roommate Mike) and it kind of sums up my feelings on the election –…

From the health and fitness section of the NYT – a good article. Here's a link that's a one paragraph excerpt; hit it for the whole article which takes five minutes to read. Those men and women who, according to their activity trackers, had exercised moderately for at least 150 minutes per week were about…

Yup. That's me. Life is unfair – unless your born first… Eat your heart out, Jim and Phil. Actually this article is very interesting and can be read in six or eight minutes. Our recently published findings are the first to suggest advantages of first born siblings start very early in life—around zero to three…

I better start buying more of it. They make a good lager and a very nice black and tan. And very reasonably priced.

Yes you are. Even better! You really look the part!

This is posted on the America Magazine (The Jesuit publication) youtube channel. Insightful. Worth the five minutes to watch.

Yesterday was the feast of the English martyrs, killed between 1535 and 1679. And none are more attractive then St. Margaret Clitherow, who was a convert and executed for harboring priests in 1586. When she was put on trial, she refused to plead either guilty or not guilty – that way her family and any…

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne caring for terminally ill cancer patients (at no cost). Founder – Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of author Nathaniel Hawthorne.