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Just Send Me Word

by Francis Phillips January 24, 2013

This book, put together from the love letters of Lev and Svetlana Mischenko, provides a detailed record of life in the Soviet gulag for a political prisoner between 1946 and 1954. The couple had met and fallen in love as…

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Laughter Misplaced in Les Misérables

by Alma Acevedo, PhD. January 24, 2013

Something unsettling happened on my way to Les Mis.
A middle-aged gentleman, iPhone in hand, laughed and texted out loud. No, not during the Thénardiers’ sequence — to which bewilderment and revulsion might be a more fitting response — but,…

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How Online Dating Makes Commitment Harder

by Carolyn Moynihan January 24, 2013

The Atlantic magazine has an article arguing that online dating is undermining monogamy. Further undermining it, we should say, because the sexual mores that have devastated marriage go back four or five decades. But the writer makes a good case…

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The End of the Reagan Era?

by Dr. Paul Kengor January 23, 2013

With Barack Obama’s second inauguration, liberals are touting an altogether new epoch: the end of the Reagan era.
 
Unfortunately, I believe they are largely correct. We are witnessing a period of left-wing ascendance, marked by gay marriage, forced taxpayer funding…

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Reclaiming Virtue

by Rebecca Smith January 23, 2013

The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines virtue as: “a habitual and firm disposition to do good. It allows a person not only to perform good acts, but to give the best of himself. The virtuous person tends toward the…

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Killing Begets More Killing

by Ken Connor January 23, 2013

In the wake of the brutal, senseless tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the gun control debate is once again aflame in Washington, D.C.  Advocates of strict gun control laws are taking advantage of the visceral, emotional nature of the…

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What Judas Teaches Us About the Eucharist

by Stephen Beale January 23, 2013

Judas is a character in the gospels who doesn’t get much attention—and perhaps rightly so.
We can empathize with Doubting Thomas. We can gain hope from Peter, who went so far as to deny Jesus and yet became the Rock…

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How to Prevent Abortions (and Repair the Damage Done)

by Fr. Ed Broom January 22, 2013

1.     MERCY. If you meet somebody who has had an abortion, never condemn but be merciful and tell them of the mercy of God. Remind them of the parables of mercy in Luke 15: the lost sheep, the lost coin…

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A New Look At An Old Path to Holiness

by Stephen Beale January 22, 2013

Corporal mortification is one of those things that many people think has been neatly swept into the dustbin of Church history as just another unsavory relic of medieval Christendom.
 
That is because mortification has to do with pain for…

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Benedict Stands on the Ramparts

by Dr. Robert Moynihan January 22, 2013

“I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts.” —Habakkuk 2:1
I don’t quite know how to say this, so I’ll just be blunt: Pope Benedict is saying incredible things, yet no one seems to be listening. …

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