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A hitch hiker story …
I picked up a hitch-hiker the other day, seemed like a nice guy. After a few miles he asked me if I wasn't afraid that he might be a serial killer? I told him that the odds of two serial killers being in the same car at the same time was extremely unlikely.
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Pope Francis: “You cannot pray like parrots. We must be aware that God loves us”
His catechesis on the Our Father. "You must enter into the mystery."
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How big are collegiate shot put athletes?
Pretty big. Tim is 5’9″ and a wide body – here he is with Rickssen Opont, his STAC (St. Thomas Aquinas College) shot put teammate. Tim is a good shot putter, but Rickssen is one of the best collegiate throwers in the Country! In fact this past summer Rickssen (who is a great kid) represented…
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Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on what she would tell Trump
UPDATE: Once you hit the arrow, you must click on the line saying Watch on youtube. An under 2 minute video by an eminent Presidential historian. Find her book they are discussing here. Hope to read it in the next few months.
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“Nyet”: There was no Russian collusion.
I have very mixed views on Tucker Carlson, but this short video says it all. I’ve seen Malcolm Nance on many occasions on MSNBC, and he’s as pompous, bloviating and factually empty as he shows in this video.
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“Misidentified Covington Catholic student helps raise $21K for refuge: ‘I’m going to be optimistic’”
Thanks to Maria for sending me this LoHud article. The best way to respond to haters – be generous. "It was crazy to see all the people, you know, so quick to judge," Hodge, 18, told The Cincinnati Enquirer. Hodge was 500 miles away when his classmates joined the March for Life event in Washington…
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Cardinal Dolan’s WSJ op ed: “Abortion’s Dred Scott Moment”
In case you forgot the Dred Scott decision in 1857, it was a 7-2 Supreme Court decision that made permanent (they thought) that slaves were simply property. "The court held that the law must therefore continue to treat African-Americans as 'unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations, and so…
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Cardinal Dolan on Cuomo’s stupid effort to label Dolan as “right wing”
Cuomo did it in a NY Times op ed which I didn't bother to read since I knew what it would say. But I did read it before I posted this – and I was right – knew exactly what Cuomo would say – down to the line about him being an altar boy and…
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St. Josephine Bakhita, Feast Day and quotes
I’ve posted several times about this former Sudanese slave who ultimately became a Catholic sister in Italy. Here is the first time in 2008 St. Josephine Bakhita – saint of Darfur. And today – February 8th, the day she died in 1947 – is her feast day. Canonized in 2000, a great Saint for this…
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A Bishop (finally) says pro-abortion politicians cannot take communion
I suppose this has been said in the past by a few Bishops; still waiting to hear it from the NY Cardinal Dolan, since it only applies in Daly’s Diocese.. See here Cardinal Dolan’s pathetic TV interview about his joke of an interview a few days ago. As soon as I can locate it online…