Best of Week

Social Media Makes Us Ruder

by Tamara Rajakariar April 15, 2013

Have you ever argued with a friend on Facebook? Blocked or deleted them after a virtual agreement? Well, it turns out that you’re not alone. It’s actually a thing!
It doesn’t surprise me at all that relationships – whether with…

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Enemies of the Human Race

by Jennifer Morse April 12, 2013

Radical pro-choice rhetoric attacks the most basic facts of our human existence: that the human body comes in two different but complementary types, male and female. They cannot forgive women who embrace femininity rather than neuter themselves.

They were out…

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Well Done, Lady Thatcher: The Passing of the Iron Lady

by Dr. Paul Kengor April 11, 2013

Margaret Thatcher, one of the greatest leaders of the Cold War, of the 20th century, and of British history, has died at the age of 87.
 
I’ve referred to her as one of my Cold War seven: Ronald Reagan, John…

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Should We Sell Vatican Art and Give the Money to the Poor?

by David Clayton April 10, 2013

Is this the Franciscan message? On the final Monday of Lent, Mass at Thomas More College was celebrated by one of the monks from St Benedict’s Abbey in Still River. It is always a pleasure to have them here because…

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G. K. Chesterton: It’s Not Gay, and It’s Not Marriage

by Dale Ahlquist April 9, 2013

One of the pressing issues of Chesterton’s time was “birth control.” He not only objected to the idea, he objected to the very term because it meant the opposite of what it said. It meant no birth and no control.…

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Bill and Melinda Gates: Controlling Population and Public Education

by Anne Hendershott April 9, 2013

Continuing their commitment to controlling global population growth through artificial contraception, sterilization, and abortion initiatives, Microsoft founder and philanthropist, Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, a self-described “practicing” Catholic, are now attempting to control the curriculum of the nation’s public…

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Confession and General Absolution

by Cathy Caridi, J.C.L. April 9, 2013

Q: Last year, I visited my relatives at Christmas time, and we all went to their parish to a communal penance service before Christmas. There were probably almost a hundred people there, and only one priest. He didn’t hear each…

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“No Matter What Happens, I Will Be There For You”

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet April 8, 2013

Believing in the gift of salvation won for us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus means believing that love is more powerful than any kind of evil. To believe in this love revealed in Christ also means to…

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Scripture Speaks: Divine Mercy

by Gayle Somers April 5, 2013

Today’s [Sunday, April 7] Gospel records a post-Resurrection appearance of Jesus in which His mercy to sinners begins to flow.  Watch out!  There is no stopping it.
Gospel (Read Jn 20:19-31)
The celebration of our Lord’s Resurrection on Easter Sunday…

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Goodbye, Marriage

by Russell Shaw April 4, 2013

Surprise! Approval of same-sex marriage has risen sharply among Americans in just a few years–according to one poll, from 41% in favor in 2004 to nearly 60% now. Surprise!
Some surprise. The same media trumpeting this change lately worked hard…

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