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AWEF is a group started in Croton 20 years ago to support educational opportunities for young women in Africa. Their website is here www.awef.org  and “it addresses the educational needs of women attending secondary school and professional schools in Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.” Current number of young women being supported – 126. We…

Here's a brief video and an article below on the subject – note the Petrine Principle and the Marian principle comment in the article!     https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-affirmsA woman “is not entitled to the Petrine principle, but to the Marian principle, which is more important,” Francis said. “So the fact that woman does not access ministerial…

Heh. Brigid rarely sends stuff around but the dog lover in her got to her.

Hit the link for the complete story. Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky saved their 10-month-old twins in a final act of sacrificial love before the couple was killed by Hamas terrorists. When the 30-year-old parents heard Hamas gunmen trying to break down their door, the young couple had to make a life-altering decision – a decision…

Horrendous. this is going to result in thousands of deaths – Israeli and Palestinian. The bitterness will last for decades.

This is reality.  For a longer version, click here. The Synod on Synodality begins in Rome on October 4. To that end, we thought it would be fruitful to examine the data on orthodoxy v. heterodoxy within the Catholic Church. Mass Attendance Globally The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) has found that…

Gone at age 80. One of the all time great football linebackers. His career ended in 1973 – early because of a knee injury. Even with today’s players bigger, faster and stronger than those from Butkus era, I’m sure he would still be a star today. “Butkus was a feared middle linebacker considered to be…

Yeah that’s us three years ago. Posted three (my favorites) of the ten ways below the picture… hit the link for the others After you get married, it’s common for the flame of love to cool, with each spouse eventually reaching the point of using the toilet with the bathroom door open, wearing nothing but…

A nice article in the NY Times and some poignant photos if you hit the link. Kathleen Murphy, who grew up in Kinsale and had immigrated to New York, was working as a nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan when the World Trade Center was struck. Ms. Murphy, 56 at the time, treated wounded…

Pretty dramatic. Former resident of Croton. I know a number of people who knew him.