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Darfur Update
One thing the Washington Post columnist surely got right – Dis no longer a "trendy, breathless global cause" – Michael Gerson – Michael Gerson on how U.S. policy fails Darfur – washingtonpost.com Her story is in a recent, exhaustive, chilling report on Sudan written by a panel of experts at the United Nations. A U.N.…
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Fr. Benedict Groeschel, 50th anniversary as a priest
I've written a few times about Fr. Groeschel, like here Tom Faranda's Folly: The official Guru of the Faranda family, featured in NY Times article . Here is a fine, fine, tribute to him.
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The Vatican on the new arrangement for Anglicans joining the Catholic church
A (very) short video. I previously posted about this here The Catholic initiative to welcome Anglican Christians into full communion with the Church and here The Anglican Church consulted with the Vatican on the movement of Anglican communities into the Catholic…
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Yankee manager Joe Girardi’s Cross County Parkway heroics
Great story – Girardi steps up in a life-threatening situation. Yankees manager turns good Samaritan | LoHud.com | The Journal News After leading his team to a World Series championship, Girardi and his family were returning home to Purchase when he came upon the accident along an eastbound blind curve where the road meets the…
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How I voted
I actually went to the Croton Harmon train station for about an hour this AM to help Sue Konig hand out literature to commuters as they headed to the train. Then voted – there was almost no one voting at 8:15. Besides Sue and Rob Astorino for County Exec My email earlier today, about Tuesday's…
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Tom Faranda, animal lover,
A few days ago Joe planted one of our chinchilla’s on me. That’s Dusty – and that’s Dusty. I took the pictures Our other chinchilla, Gloria, is doing well, as is Trinity the guinea pig.
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Captain Lou Albano – a colorful Stepinac alumnus.
Lou Albano the former "wrestler" and "manager" with the WWF (now WWE). Died a few days ago at 76. A graduate of my high school – Stepinac ( I only just found that out). I remember him AND this video he made with Cyndi Lauper. Remember Cyndi Lauper? Back around the time "Girls Just Want…
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Some Tim football
We didn't expect Tim to be playing football this year – he played in the Ossining Football Little League from the 2nd through 6th grades – because there was no 7th-8t grade team. Ossining has a junior high school team. Then this year they started a 7th – 8th grade little league team, so Tim is in…
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The NY Times on the canonization of Father Damien, “the Leper priest”
One of the heroes of the Franciscan sisters who taught me in grammer school. Editorial – Father Damien’s Message – NYTimes.com
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Latest Read: Tears in the Darkness
"The Story of the Bataan Death March and it's Aftermath" I read a review of this book a several months ago in the NY Times and it was a very positive and intriguing review. I knew very little about the Bataan Death March, an infamous chapter in the war in the Pacific in WW II. After…