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How was a cloistered nun – The Poor Clares – able to able to build a worldwide religious media operation?  

UPDATE: See Father Martin’s video below, from America Media. James Martin (among other things) is a big contributor to the Jesuit magazine, America. He’s a very interesting guy, who graduated from U Penn’s Wharton School of Business – one of the premier business school’s in the country (Donald Trump also a graduate of Wharton). Anyway,…

Yes, it's the same one – but I like it! The Resurrection: Four Artists What happens when an untalented barbarian like myself, is married to an artistic, creative,and talented person? I post stuff like this for Easter: Starting with Fra Angelico, around 1443. Oh, and it's now Blessed Fra Angelico   El Greco, 1577. One of…

Yeah that's today.  I love the story the Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, liked to tell: "No doubt the arrival of Jesus in Hell/Limbo was quite spectacular – The Harrowing of Hell – and quite terrifying for the inhabitants. Except for one man, who walks up to Jesus and says 'Tell me,…

Actually more than annoying – a bit hobbling. I'd had arthroscopic surgery on that knee over 11 years ago – took out much of the torn meniscus. Not an old rugby injury – the meniscus wore out because I'm bowlegged! Early last week I suddenly developed a pretty noticeable pain in my left calf. Had…

Some interesting stats here. Obama, when he won the Democrat nomination in 2008 promised this would happen. Here are the facts – Sea level has been falling on the Atlantic seaboard for the past six years. And here's the Democratic nominee on June 4, 2008 – Magic!!  

He was 90. Not the greatest catcher from his neighborhood (Yogi Berra lived across the street) but otherwise very talented. He didn’t retire until 3 years ago. Joe Garagiola, Sr. HIs son, Joe Jr., was a year ahead of me at Stepinac HS, and played goalie on the soccer team.  

I've' posted about this before.L.A. actors oppose a pay hike – it will cost jobs!  I'm agnostic on raising the minimum wage – it should be left up to the states.  There's an interesting experiment going on in Oregon over this – the article is from yesterday's Guardian (UK). It looks at both sides of…

Hint: T Rex became smart before he became big… From Scientific American a really interesting article on the evolution of T Rex. Great read if you like dinosaurs (and who doesn’t?). New Tyrannosaur Species Reveals How the King of the Dinosaurs Won Its Crown. Fossil suggests that T. rex got smart before it got big…

"Money is the root of all evil." This from the Telegraph (UK). Pope Francis cracks down on secretive Vatican department dubbed 'the Saints' Factory'. Shadowy business of choosing Catholics to be made saints has been tainted by allegations of greed and corruption \ The Pope imposed strict new regulations demanding much greater transparency and accountability…