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Apparitions! An interesting & difficult topic. This is from The Washington Post, so no pay wall. Excerpts below the link. The Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, would appreciate this. Father Laurentin, a French theologian who died Sept. 10 at 99, was perhaps Catholicism’s preeminent scholar of contemporary miracles and Marian apparitions. A…

Today is the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Many Americans are poorly informed about basic constitutional provisions, according to a new national survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.     The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey finds that: More than half of Americans (53 percent) incorrectly think it is accurate to say…

The new place in "downtown" Croton-on-Hudson. Brigid  & I ate there on a Saturday night a couple of days after it opened. Good food but slow service – which I expect they'll fix, if they haven't already. Here's LoHud's take – Fratelli's Trattoria offers northern Italian cuisine in Croton-on-Hudson The eatery, which he said specializes…

I hate today. Below is a posting I first put up in 2006. Tommy should be 46. I knew seven people killed on 9/11. But I only knew one of them real well. I knew Tom Knox ("Tommy") because I coached him for five years at the North Jersey Rugby Club. He was a great…

Average shortstop, great General Manager, and by all accounts a great person. How he built the "core four".  

Now of course St. Teresa of Calcutta. The Jesuit publication America has re-posted a # of features from past issues about her – just go here – What was so extraordinary about this “saint of the gutters?” How could someone revered as a saint not feel God’s presence for long periods of her life? Mother…

Wow an unsupported "hike" that wiped out both the supported and unsupported records. McConaughy is a former Boston College cross country and track runner. he's in his mid-20's now and averaged 48 miles a day. Joe ‘Stringbean’ McConaughy, a well-known speed hiker, set a new record on the Appalachian Trail today. He hiked the 2,190-mile…

Thanks to Ed Mechmann for sending this around. "Life from Death." “I think it is a turn from desperation to great hope and transformative hope going forward,” Art Bennett, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, told CNA of a new free medical clinic set to open in November, replacing a…

Our three chinchillas also applaud and whistle!  

Actually her Feast was yesterday, the 29th, along with two other English women martyrs. Below is something I posted about her last October 26th. She was married, with three children. And she must have been awfully tough. She lived in York and was executed there. Yesterday was the feast of the English martyrs, killed between…