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CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism
After quitting my job as a school teacher in 2010 to become a full-time organic farmer, I was left with…
Monthly Archives: February, 2012
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Cooking the Books, Disparaging Catholics
The only folks who might have missed the fallacious claim that 98 percent of Catholics use contraception are those who…
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Inside Loaves of Stone
I have some imaginative ideas for teaching our children the spiritual lessons of Lent and Easter, but they involve rocks…
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Obama’s Values Spark Return of Culture Wars
In 2007, while still a member of the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama said, “I am absolutely convinced that culture wars…
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Fasting for Freedom
A few weeks ago, the new Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, the Most Reverend Peter Libasci, called upon all people…
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Poem: “If Not to Hell”
If Not to Hell Suppose that God had let them stay In Paradise for one more day, No sword of…
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How the West’s Fertility War Has Left Women at Risk
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men Mara Hvistendahl Public Affairs, 2011;…
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Pharmacists’ Conscience Rights Upheld in Major Court Victory
Today, religious liberty gained a resounding victory. A federal court in Tacoma, Washington, struck down a Washington law that requires…
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Keeping the Fast: Spiritual Fitness for Lent
It is a well-founded observation: More Catholics come to Church on Ash Wednesday (and Palm Sunday) than they do on…
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No Time for Lenten Services? Use the Drive-thru.
A little cramped for time this Ash Wednesday? No problem. An Ohio Methodist minister, Rev. Patricia Anderson Cook, has found…