The 800 martyrs of Otranto, plus two women religious; one from Mexico, and the first Saint from Columbia. Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's … Read more
UPDATE: Tim's statewide ranking (they don't do the event much upstate) – According to this, Tim is ranked #4 in sophomore class. Cool. Good for Tim, who hadn't been throwing as well as he'd hoped recently. He really did well. First throw was 138', second 142', and then 145' 7". He broke his previous PR, … Read more
For some reason, I kind of like this picture. The boy on Tim’s left is his friend Liam who had just won the long jump competition at the fourth (and last) Mt Vernon developmental meet for freshman and sophomores. And Tim had won the discus. Ugh, slightly different builds, eh? After the meet, Tim went … Read more
Daniel Henninger's weekly column – the Gosnell murder case Everyone clings to something, and we now know what liberals cling to. But what do liberals cling to? Recent events have revealed two things. Gun control and abortion. ****** By now, many details of the accusations against Dr. Gosnell have become known. One will suffice. The … Read more
The case of the young boy was studied for 14 years. The two sisters who answered her plea were Sister Margaret Mary Preister and the late Sister Evangeline Spenner. Both were sisters from the order that Bonzel founded, the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration. The nuns prayed a novena, a nine-day vigil asking … Read more
At yesterday’s Fordham Prep Development Meet, on Randall’s Island, at Icahn Stadium. He won the sophomore shot put and the javelin. He was lucky; Tim had driver’s ed at Stepinac, and we didn’t expect to get to the Stadium in time for any event except the javelin. But we just made it for the shot … Read more
A few pictures here – thank you Maria! Today's Dedication of the Jim Moore Gym
The Holy Name of Mary Church gym. Here's a nice feature about Jim in the Journal News. Church gym to bear Jim Moore's name Moore has made significant contributions to the Croton and Holy Name communities. He founded the Holy Name of Mary CYO program in 1965 and served as director/coach for 24 years. He … Read more
Cnn just did a special on a military veteran who wants to end his own life, the NY Times had an extesive article on the rising cost of paying for aged people with dementia, suicide and euthanasia are continuing to gain respectability as a "choice". This from Bloomberg – Boomers Push Doctor-Assisted Dying in End-of-Life … Read more
The exchanges took place during Margaret Thatcher’s last speech in the House of Commons on 22 November 1990. Read the complete transcript for this speech here:http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speec…