Thomas Dennelly: The Man Behind the Pro-life Kennedy Letter.

Every once in a while, there emerges an ordinary citizen who refuses to stand by and allow evil to triumph by doing something extraordinary. I had long admired the eloquent, informed letters to the editor of Thomas Dennelly Jr. in… Read More

Book Review: My Sister Alicia May

In this view into the daily life of a little girl with Down Syndrome, big sister Rachel lovingly describes her six-year-old sister, Alicia May.  Alicia May has endearing traits; she bursts through Rachel’s door in the morning with a sunny… Read More

Book Review: Behind Bella

In the opening scene of Bella, there is a gorgeous view of the ocean surf with seagulls crying overhead. Eduardo Verastegui’s resonant accent is heard in a voice over, saying, “My mother always told me, ‘If you want to make… Read More

Movie Review Angels and Demons

Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), professor of symbology at Harvard University was swimming his customary laps in the University pool, when he emerges from the pool face to face with a bleary-eyed stranger Claudio Vincenzi (David Pasquesi) carrying what he immediately… Read More

La Via Crucis, the Hispanic Way of the Cross

Many Catholics are familiar with the Stations of the Cross, with 14 sculptures representing events in Christ’s Passion from the condemnation by Pontius Pilate to His Body being laid in the tomb borrowed from Joseph of Arimethea. You see them… Read More

Review of The Terri Schiavo Story

Four years ago, a young disabled woman was dehydrated by court order, at the command of her estranged husband, while her loving family’s offers to take her into their home and care for her without compensation were ignored.
The President… Read More

Book Review: Take it to The Queen: A Tale of Hope

Imagine a kingdom, whose benevolent King gave His subjects fresh water to drink which poured from golden fountains, fields of hearty grain for baking fragrant bread, fine foals in their stables for transportation, and best of all,  a beautiful and… Read More

Don’t Give in to the Siren Song

In the rural area where I live, radio stations which come in clearly on a clock radio are limited, so I awake to news and commentary on National Public Radio. No idle morning banter, this station focuses on serious topics.… Read More

Civil Rights, Now! — For Down’s Syndrome Babies

“Trig Palin’s moment in the national spotlight is a milestone of the civil rights movement for those with Down syndrome. But it comes at a paradoxical time. Unlike the legal protections accorded the rights of minorities and women, civil rights… Read More

Henry Poole is Here

All Henry Poole wants to do is to be left alone. In most neighborhoods, this would not be a problem, but, in this unpretentious LA neighborhood, for some odd reason, people care.
It begins with his perky real estate broker… Read More

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