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November 2012

November 12, 2012

The Bloggers Meet The Bishops, On Tape, Via YouTube

You may recognize a few of the bloggers here. Take a look, Figures they'd catch...

November 02, 2012

New USCCB Website Launched to Inform the Culture on the Importance of Religious Liberty

One of the salient points critics of our bishops' stance on the HHS Mandate fail...

November 01, 2012

Be Advised, Weird Stuff is Happening, Both on the Blog…

And elsewhere. To wit, something went amok with a "Popular Post" link sharing doohickey. Patheos...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

Time-Lapse Video of the Space Shuttle Moving Through L.A.

It doesn't get much cooler than this. Let's just say that my hat is off...

October 19, 2012

Love Him, or Hate Him, Stephen Colbert Calls Out Tennessee “Pro-Life” Congressman

Filed under news you'd rather not have heard about, Stephen Colbert's "Alpha Dog of the...

October 04, 2012

A 1,000 Mile Per Hour Car? Let’s Do It!

I'm a sucker for gearhead related stuff like this. Slap four wheels on something that...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, And More in Central Park UPDATED!

It's the Global Citizen Festival and it's "free" for a ticketed donation. The proceeds will...

September 28, 2012

Drafted By God, The Story of Frater Matthew Desme

I said I'm gone readin' and I am. In fact, I just read the best...

September 21, 2012

Public Prayer at University of Tennessee, Revisited

The other day I shared the story about the Freedom From Religion Foundation's letter to...

September 21, 2012

The Two Most Important Pundits Weigh In On “My Wife…” UPDATED

No, I don't mean any of the talking heads over at News Corp., The Big...

September 20, 2012

Little Old Lady Who Ruined the Fresco Says “Pass the Loot!” UPDATED

Remember this? The, um, "restorer" would like a piece of the action. You see, because...

September 19, 2012

University of Tennessee to Freedom From Religion Foundation: Continue to Pray, We Shall UPDATED

My local news outlet has the skinny, hot off the wire. The University of...

September 17, 2012

“We Stand for Religious Freedom…”

You know, except for when we don't. President Barack Obama said the United States supports...

September 14, 2012

An Argument Against the HHS Mandate: Keep America Weird

It may seem a strange way for an argument to develop, but really it is...

September 12, 2012

J. Christopher Stevens, Requiescat in Pace

Prayers for the repose of the soul of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, and for the...

September 09, 2012

Coming Soon to iTunes: Pope Benedict XVI

And it's all through a partnership between the Vatican's publishing house and Apple Inc. The...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

Message from Mammon On Student Loan Debt: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Really. It's "contained." Ben Bernanke says so. Cody Willard of Marketwatch gives us reasons to...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

About Catholic Relief Services, Brandon Vogt reminds us…

that while “the good” isn’t “the perfect” (in the midst of a fallen world), that...

July 24, 2012

Quote of the Week: Christopher Nolan

From The Dark Knight Rises website, Speaking on behalf of the cast and crew...

July 24, 2012

Photographs of the Week: Christian Bale Visits the Victims UPDATED

This is for the half-dozen or so readers who haven't seen the photographs of actor...

July 20, 2012

Mitt Romney says, “We Are All Catholics Now” UPDATED

Why am I choosing the "lesser of two evils" come this Fall? Let me show...

July 03, 2012

Long Before the ACA Decision…UPDATED

Legal truths stranger than fiction have existed for some time. Cue example from Bloomberg Financial...

June 2012

June 21, 2012

Archbishop Lori’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post

It hit the web edition's Guest Voices column early this afternoon. With tweets and text...

June 20, 2012

Did You Hear the NPR Piece Today on the “Fortnight for Freedom?”

It was actually pretty balanced. A couple of parishioners "for," a couple "against," and snippets...

June 15, 2012

The Catholic Health Association Tacks to Windward UPDATED

And just in the nick of time. They were headed for a lee shore, or...

May 2012

May 24, 2012

Props to PBS, Who Did Discuss the Lawsuit, While the Other Networks Slept

Joanne McPortland tipped me off about this in the combox of the post I wrote...

May 23, 2012

With the HHS Mandate, Belloc’s Heresy “The Modern Phase” Has Arrived UPDATED

A couple of years ago, when I was boring folks with YIMCatholic Book Club posts,...

May 22, 2012

Mary Ann Glendon Explains Why The Bishops Are Suing the U.S. Government

Who is Mary Ann Glendon? She's the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law...

May 22, 2012

Cardinal Dolan on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose

Yesterday I lamented the paucity of media coverage regarding the lawsuits filed by 40+ Catholic...

May 21, 2012

Comments on the Lawsuit by the President of the University of Notre Dame UPDATED

On the heels of the story that hit the news stands at 11AM, the President...