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The picture is an old one – junior at Stepinac I think. Neat. At the University of Miami Hurricanes Invitational Meet this past Saturday. Tim was at two Florida meets with his school (STAC) over the winter break. Since he was red-shirted last year as a freshman, this was the first outdoor meet he competed…

The Pope has spoke quite often about Satan and I've posted five times about him commenting on the devil – like here early in his Papacy. Excellent – America Mag links to a short video: "The Devil in Pope Francis' Teaching" This is from a couple of days ago, as the Pope went to confession…

At least according to Bill Donohue at the Catholic League. Here is a good, brief missive from him on St. Patrick. Salute to St. Patrick March 16, 2017 The heroics of St. Patrick are not appreciated as much as they should be. He is the first person in history to publicly condemn slavery, and one…

Last Friday. Tim made the finals at #7 (of eight; they started with 19 throwers). And then the #8 seed hit a good throw so Tim was in 8th place and out of point scoring for his college. Below is his last throw, which pushed him into 6th place (40’2″) and got St. Thomas Aquinas…

"Ryan's legacy is etched into eternity." Powerful stuff. Last night had to be the best speech Trump has ever given.

Most everyone remembers this horror.  Hard to believe it was two years ago. 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya Who was the 21st person beheaded? According to reports, Mathew Ayairga was not a Christian. However, when moments before his death the IS extremists demanded that he follow Islam, Mathew turned them down. After…

Australia has loads of nasty, deadly creatures and here’s one of them – Boy survives bite from super deadly spider thanks to quick-thinking dad A 10-year-old Australian boy has survived a bite from one of the world’s deadliest spiders after taking a record 12 vials of anti-venom, local media reported. Matthew Mitchell was helping his…

I took this entirely from the Stepinac HS email that was sent around Tuesday morning. I thought it was nicely done.   A number of wonderful conversations, calls, emails and Facebook comments have been coming to us since the passing of our beloved “Fr. Pete”.  As you have probably heard, Monsignor Peter Gelsomino passed away…

A former teacher at Stepinac, a real character. I never had him as a teacher – he taught Russian – but he had positive influence on many students. He only retired in 2014, at the age of 85. He was at Stepinac from 1958 to 1993. This is from Catholic New York when he retired:…

The Catholic intellectual. He was 83 years old. I enjoyed reading his columns and commentary although I never read any of his books. This is a press release from the Catholic league, and below is a short video from Fr. Robert Sirico. Michael Novak, R.I.P. February 17, 2017 Bill Donohue comments on the death of…