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Lemons and Moons, or “How to Love”
When my grief counselor asked me to explain why I felt the loss of my mother so acutely, I couldn’t…
Yearly Archives: 2015
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The President Undercuts Stay-at-Home Parents
President Obama’s State of the Union address was predictable for a President nearing the end of his second term. It…
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St. Bathildes, Queen
ST. BATHILDES was an Englishwoman, who was carried over whilst yet young into France, and there sold for a slave,…
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Book Review: Practical Theology, Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas
Sometimes new parents will half jokingly complain that their precious new charge did not “come with an instruction manual”. They…
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‘Volunteering’ to Die
I recently read the story of a daughter’s anguished eyewitness account of her mother’s death. It was a death chosen for the…
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Movie Review: American Sniper
Does American Sniper glorify war? Does the film pretend to take very seriously the colossal cost of war, the human…
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Poem: “A little Snow was Here and There”
A little Snow was Here and There A little Snow was here and there Disseminated in her Hair — Since…
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St. Francis of Sales
FRANCIS was born of noble and pious parents, near Annecy, 1566, and studied with brilliant success at Paris and Padua.…