Category: People
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St Patrick; opposed slavery & upheld women
Nice short column in the Catholic League email today. The heroics of St. Patrick are not appreciated as much as they should be. He is the first person in history to publicly condemn slavery, and one of the first leaders to champion the cause of equal rights. There is much to celebrate on March 17.…
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Pigs fly department: Actress at Oscars speaks out for marriage and motherhood
Wow. That’s the last Academy Award she’ll ever get! This taken entirely off Laura G’s facebook page. I never heard of Jessie Buckley until I saw Laura’s posting. Last night at the Oscars, Irish actress Jessie Buckley did something rare in Hollywood: She stood on one of the biggest stages in the world and delivered…
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Ohio Nat. Guard mourn loss of their colleagues killed in plane crash
Three of the six airmen whose KC135 air refueling tanker went down.
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Andrew Yang – former Dem presidential candidate – on AI & jobs
This is a good interview. A couple of cycles ago he ran in the Democrat Presidential primary and got a few votes. Since then he has left the party and is co-founder of the Forward Party, attempting to build a centrist coalition. He also owns a tech business and this is a good interview.
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FOX – Highlights the interest in church going amongst GEN Z; example a Catholic Church in Manhattan.
We have seen this in our own Catholic Church in Croton; more young people. I facilitate OCIA (the acronym for learning about Catholicism and receiving the sacraments) and right now we have three young women – 20, 21 and 24 – who are entering the Church. And we have a half dozen teenagers who are…
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Lou Holtz give a great, short, funny speech
This looks like a University Commencement speech but it doesn’t say where it is. Here’s what I posted a couple of days ago when it was announced he’d died. “I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
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Lou Holtz
Gone at 89 years old. Coached Notre Dame to the National Football College Championship in 1988 and by all accounts was an even greater man. UPDATE: from RN – I went to the College he coached before ND – The College of William & Mary. He was asked why he lost a game, and he…
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Pentagon ID’s 4 of the US soldiers killed
They range in age from 20 to 42 and one is a 39 year old woman. If you hit the link there are touching bios about the four of them. The four troops are Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st…
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Lindsay Vonn’s ski injury at the Olympics was devastating
Wow. This is from the NY Times. There was a real chance she would have to have had an amputation. Two and a half weeks after her crash during the Olympic downhill race in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Lindsey Vonn has returned to the U.S. and is finally out of the hospital. “Video footage from the fall…
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Bill Mazeroski, 89. He broke Yankee hearts
Ugh. I saw the game on our beautiful black and white TV, and remember how forlorn Yogi Berra looked, standing in left field and seeing the ball go over the fence. It’s a nice article and includes a video of the homer. I did not know Mazeroski was in the Hall of Fame – he…