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“Hurry Up and Die”

by Michael Cook on January 28, 2013 · 3 comments

The year is barely a month old, but BioEdge is already sure who will win the annual “Foot in Mouth Award”: Japan’s finance minister Taro Aso.
The outspoken Mr Aso did not win many votes among Japan’s swelling elderly with…

A Fiery Apostle

by Fr. Ed Broom on December 10, 2012 · 1 comment

Editor’s Note: The Feast Day of St. Francis Xavier was a week ago, but we at CE thought that this meditation by Father Broom was too good to miss out on. Read and be inspired!
The last words that St.…

Consider this fictitious scenario: In the summer of 1950, President Thomas E. Dewey faced a national security crisis of extraordinary proportions—one that his advisors agreed likely would define his presidency. After beating his Democratic opponent in 1948 by a comfortable…

Every year on this date I am bewildered (I admit, saddened) that we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration and recall the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Japan at Hiroshima. The bombing of Nagasaki followed three days…

Japan: Nuclear Clean-up proves tough

by Alexandra Richards March 13, 2012

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