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Actually Christmas Eve and Christmas. I was the lector and Tim an altar server at the 10PM Christmas Eve Mass, and after we returned home, we opened the gifts from Brigid’s relatives in England and Australia. That has become our custom in recent years – overseas gifts on Christmas Eve and everything else Christmas morning.…

Great game. The running game rumbled. Giants run past Panthers in overtime, clinch NFC's top seed

Read a bit about it below. I am only posting it, because Brigid had flown back to NY from visiting her family on this flight, one week earlier. Michelle Malkin » 20 years: The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

This is from Zenit, the Catholic news service: Pope Says There's No Ideal Political Model Invites 11 Envoys to Cultivate National "Genius" VATICAN CITY, DEC. 18, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says there is no ideal political model, and that each country needs to cultivate its own national spirit. The Pope affirmed this today when he…

Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest known for his opposition to the School of the Americas (he founded School of the Americas Watch in 1990 School of the Americas Watch ) took part in a Women's Ordination ceremony a few months ago. He was asked by the Vatican to disavow what he had done, and when he…

See here The Bernie Madoff fraud where I point out that it's not just the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that failed; but there's no doubt they were shockingly dismal. The Washington Post has a good analysis – SEC Ignored Credible Tips About Madoff, Chief Says – washingtonpost.com The nation's chief securities regulator said yesterday it was "deeply troubling"…

For several days this stunning, fraudulent, Ponzi Scheme has been in the news. First here's the definition of a Ponzi Scheme Ponzi scheme – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that involves paying abnormally high returns ("profits") to investors out of the money paid in by subsequent investors, rather…

Quite clever that young boys would think of this … I was certainly never this clever. 12-Year-Old Boy Scouts Volunteer To Give Women Breast Exams

The Cardinal died yesterday, at the age of 90. A really fine theologian, I loved to read his essays in America and First Things. Tom Faranda's Folly: Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles retires Dulles resided in the Bronx, on the campus of Fordham University. Here's this morning's aricle in the local newspaper, and it's a very good and…

Haven't posted anything on Darfur in quite awhile. And things don't seem to be getting any better. This is an editorial from yesterday. Editorial – Darfur, Another Year Later – NYTimes.com Much of the fault lies with Sudan’s cynically obstructionist president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. But Russia and especially China — which has major oil interests…