DAILY DEVOTIONS, LIFELONG FAITH

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07 May, 2001

Everyman’s Socrates Where You Go When You Don’t Have Religion

What is Evil? Within minutes of my sitting down, a David Duchovny look-a-like walked in proudly with his guitar. The stringing, however, wouldn't come for another two hours, an encore to the main event. At first, there was just private chatter around the shop, and the chatterers fell into almost every age group. Individual conversations

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25 Apr, 2001

Lawrence Kudlow How A Wall Street Star Became a Catholic

Order and Dignity Neumayr: What year were you baptized into the Roman Catholic Church? Kudlow: November 20, 1997, at St. Thomas More Church in New York City, under the direction of Fr. John McCloskey, an Opus Dei priest who now heads up the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. How much preparation did you have?

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17 Apr, 2001

Remember the Titanic The Final Moments of the “Unsinkable” Ship

Propellers Glistening As the tilt grew steeper, the forward funnel toppled over. It struck the water on the starboard side with a shower of sparks and a crash heard above the general uproar. Greaser Walter Hurst, struggling in the swirling sea, was half blinded by soot. He got off lucky — other swimmers were crushed

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10 Apr, 2001

Ask Jan Connell — All About Guardian Angels

Dear Jan Connell,I would like to have a relationship with my Guardian Angel. How do I go about this? — Seeking Dear Seeking, It is wise and admirable that you seek a deeper relationship with your Guardian Angel. As I discussed in this space last week, you are surrounded by vast numbers of holy Angels

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07 Apr, 2001

Hollywood Risk-Taker The Irrepressible Jeff Daniels

Just A Small Town Guy Daniels has appeared in 30 feature films including Terms of Endearment, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Speed, 101 Dalmatians, Pleasantville, Arachnaphobia, and the recent television mini-series, The Crossing, where he played George Washington leading his men across the Delaware. Pretty impressive résumé for a guy from the tiny Midwest farming

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06 Apr, 2001

Pro-Abortion Group Turns to Blasphemy

(This article can also be found on WorldNetDaily.) The ad, part of NARAL's new 4-year, $10 million-per-year campaign to restore “pro-choice leadership” to Congress and the White House, features a woman praying — praying, mind you — to God for the “wisdom” and “courage” to make a decision to kill an unborn baby. If that

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03 Apr, 2001

Baseball is Back Are the Yankees Ruining Our National Pastime?

Like Rooting for U.S. Steel Back then the Yankees routinely wasted money on over-the-hill free-agent sluggers — Jack Clark, Steve Kemp, Jesse Barfield — who either stopped slugging as soon as the Yanks got them, or couldn't slug enough to make up for the team's execrable pitching. I don't remember hearing it through the awful

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02 Apr, 2001

Ask Jan Connell An Introduction to Angels

Dear Jan Connell, This Lent has been a particularly trying time for me and my family. We have been so busy that it has been truly difficult to get into the spirit of Lent. Do you have any suggestions? — Exhausted Dear Exhausted, It is wise and admirable that you realize you are exhausted. Such

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31 Mar, 2001

The Essence of Motherhood

Sleepless Nights This is for all the mothers who have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping their feverish brows and saying, “It's OK, baby, Mommy's here.” This is for all the mothers of Kosovo and Sudan and Macedonia and Lebanon who fled in the night and can't find their children.

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27 Mar, 2001

The Bow Is Back in Town A Sporting Tradition is Revived

The History and Art of Archery Some experts speculate that Neanderthal man had a crude method of propelling small spears with a string and bent stick 100,000 years ago. Cave paintings and archeological artifacts show that archery had become popular by 13,000 B.C. The bow and arrow, and its cousin, the crossbow, continued to be

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26 Mar, 2001

The Prodigal Son

Then the older son approaches the father with the complaint that the young son sins and keeps receiving while he works and receives nothing. The older son has issues — the largest of which is that he considers himself a slave, not a son. The younger son makes the mistake that all of us have