Author: Tom Faranda
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Pope writes an Apostolic Letter on the 1,700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed.
This is from the Catholic online magazine Aleteia. It took me under 16 minutes to read the entire text of the letter; there are links to it below. St. Athanasius mentioned frequently as well as ecumenism, based on all Christians accepting the sacrament of Baptism and the Nicene Creed as normative. Come, Love of the…
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Crazy: Notre Dame defense scores 3 TD’s in first five minutes
Notre Dame lead Syracuse 21-0 before the ND offense even got on the field. Just watch the first four minutes. The final score was 70-7 as Syracuse got a touchdown with four seconds left in the game.
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Friday cocktail – The Gold Rush!
And shown in a 45 second video. Delicious! Farandaville recipe – as above. Most recipes do not include the one dash of orange bitters. And the honey syrup and lemon amounts are personal preference. Experiment. And nothing wrong with making this directly in the old fashioned glass – as long as you stir it A…
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Bourbon (one bottle) sells for $96,000
Called “the Mickey Mantle of bourbon bottles”, sold by a specialist booze auction house.
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Robert P George resigns from the Heritage Foundation
I only vaguely know about this controversy, but I do know Robert George (not personally) as a very principled Catholic intellectual with quite a resume. So whatever he does, I support. This is a black eye for the Heritage Foundation. From the Wall Street Journal – The Heritage Foundation debacle isn’t over. The decision of…
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WSJ: Ultrarich, privacy and income inequality
This is from the Journal – Let them eat cake? “The Ultrarich are spending a fortune to live in extreme privacy. In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life. When developers Masoud and Stephanie Shojaee dined out recently, they headed…