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Played great rugby at 33 years old in the World Cup. when he first played for hte All Blacks in 2003, he was a wrecking ball, headhunting center. By the end of his career with New Zealnad he was the ultimate inside center. Now playing for Toulon in France.  

A very fine short (14 paragraphs) essay yesterday. As an aside, many of the comments left about the essay (NY Times readers after all) show a real disdain for religion in general and Christianity in particular. If you doubt me or think I'm being unfair, just read the comments. We moderns assume that compassion for…

Brigid and I were talking a few days ago about how Christmas isn’t the same without young children in the house. And it really isn’t. But the two gorillas in the house were still pretty interested in opening presents early this morning! Even Brigid – who got a snowblower (not pictured). Thank you Santa!  

In the 60's in NY today but see this – Christmas Eve 1955 was much warmer. Three fourths of the country was over 60 degrees, and Ashland Kansas, Geary Oklahoma and Encinal Texas were all over 90 degrees. Fort Lauderdale was 85 degrees. All of the stations below were over 60 degrees on Christmas Eve,…

Besides his many roles with the Capuchins, Fr. Jack has been associated with my parish for as long as we’ve lived in Croton. Which is back to 1982! He sent this around today. Love the image below his note. … St. Francis at the Crib My Friends,   May the Peace of Christmas fill you…

Yup. Explains why rugby players live a long time.  And why Pope Benedict is 89 years old. Two careful studies – one of them involving animals – Now two new studies suggest that exercise may well influence when and how much people drink. Drinking may even affect whether people exercise, and, the findings suggest, the…

My nephew Paul and his wife Laura had their son Ethan baptized yesterday. Big gathering of friends and family – a few pictures below.  That’s Uncle Tony half in the picture on the left. The seeming 13 year old doing the baptism is actually a 27 year old Deacon who will be ordained in May…

Be there or be square!

Here's the guy telling the story The100mileman . He is married to Sara Blakely, Founder of SPANX which earned her the title of world's youngest woman billionaire. Been watched already over 300,000 times since it was posted on November 27th.