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This is a pretty good article that takes maybe five minutes to read (but with lots of links to follow up on). In a word, fight it with ideas and free speech, not by trying the CRT tactic of censoring people who oppose their ideas. A new orthodoxy has taken over our educational institutions with…

UPDATE: Good Movie – Harriet – free on amazon prime. We watched it Sunday night. The incredibly talented  Cynthia Erivo who also wrote and sang the theme song, played Tubman. Today is the 108th anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman who was an escaped slave, made multiple trips back south to lead a total…

UPDATE: Here is a link to the Mass held in the Chaldean Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baghdad. https://youtu.be/F6VvBTuFkOw Calling for peaceful coexistence and fraternity.

Whew. Video below and here's more. We could use a dose of this from our own Catholic Episcopacy (dream on Tom).  Catholic nun saves young demonstrators "The action of the nun and the response of the police who, upon seeing the nun's plea, stopped, surprised many of us. Sister Ann Nu Thawng is today a…

Haha. I follow the author of this brief essay (Simcha Fisher, who has 10 children and I think is a convert from Judaism) a little bit – I get her few times a week emails. I think her writing ranges from outstanding to mediocre (like mine) but this is pretty good. This is just how…

Comment from three weeks ago, which didn’t make the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, etc, etc. Doesn’t fit their narrative. The pandemic “forced us to confront two unavoidable dimensions of human existence: sickness and death,” Pope Francis said. “In doing so, it reminded us of the value of life, of every individual human life…

Pending an investigation – step aside Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs to step aside immediately pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace. In doing so, he would simply be taking the same medicine he has prescribed for the Catholic Church. If a priest is accused of sexual misconduct, the Church’s zero tolerance…

This is from a breakaway "Catholic" group located in upstate NY, southeast of Buffalo. The name of the group is Most Holy Family Monastery and besides believing they are the arbiters of who goes where after death, they deny basic Catholic stuff like Baptism of desire. Another person they say has afterlife issues is Pope…

As she mentions the CDC says 400-500 people survive being aborted every year. I met Melissa in 2019, at a fundraiser in White Plains. Melissa was saved by a nurse who rushed her to the hospital neonatal unit. Ultimately Melissa was adopted. She has an MSW degree. Her story is compelling – especially about tracking…

Brigid back at Croton Dam on Tuesday the 16th. Here’s what things had looked like on Thursday the 11th –Brigid pictures: Croton Dam under the snow  – such a dull day the pictures look to be black and white. But not Tuesday. And a handful of other people.