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Bishop Robert Barron – “The Catholic View of Salvation”
Bishop Barron – extremely popular on social media – as the WSJ recently headlined No church figure other than the pope has more followers than Robert Barron. This is part of a much longer interview with the popular conservative Jewish fellow, Ben Shapiro. Here he simply and quickly (4 minutes) presents the standard Catholic view…
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Jesuits celebrate 38th anniversary of Jesuit Refugee Service & opening of founder’s beatification process
An important Jesuit ministry; 2 minute video. Originally begun to aid Vietnamese refugees; currently heavily involved in Iraq and Syria.
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WSJ: “NY State Targets Jewish Schools”
Despicable. I'm going to post most of this op ed since the Journal requires subscription. Government bureaucrats are so much smarter than the rest of us -just ask them. The op ed is written by two yeshiva deans. Albany bureaucrats want to commandeer our curriculum. We won’t have it. Together the two of us have…
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Brigid’s birthday today!
Yes, the first half of December a great month in Farandaville -Tim birthday December 9th Tim birthday today! , we pick him up at the hospital on the 11th we picked up Tim from the hospital! and December 12th Brigid birthday. Here’s Brigid, and she’s got a necklace Tim gave her – After the Christmas…
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December 11, 1996; as we picked up Tim from the hospital!
Here we are at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, NY. Tim was born two days earlier. The nurse said, “He’s a very alert baby.” Little did we know… And we all look A LOT younger. Go here to see what he looks like today – Tim birthday today!
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In honor of my Aussie in-laws: “Remembering Roger the ripped kangaroo”
Gone to kangaroo better place.
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Tim birthday today!
Yay Tim! 22. And a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Here he is yesterday at the first indoor track meet of the season, held at Southern Connecticut State University. A sequence from the first round, throwing the (16lb) shot put. You got to line it up … And then BANG! The explosion and off it…
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Historian Jon Meacham’s eulogy for President Bush
I saw a piece of the Bush funeral but didn’t see this. All four of the eulogies for him were powerful. Meacham here relates the story of Bush being shot down and how it affected him. It’s 12 minutes long.
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Rejoinder to: “Spiritual but not religious”
This is a short video – five minutes and it's only the first half that addresses and answers the above. Ben Shapiro interviewing an Evangelical Pastor who I'd not heard of before.
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A quote from Fr. James Martin, SJ on social justice
This is from a few months ago on his twitter account. Glad I came across it. Fr. Martin is an American Jesuit priest, a writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. James Martin, SJVerified account @JamesMartinSJ What does it mean to be pro-social justice if you defend the life of a child on the…