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| Chinese Catholics at Mass. |
- If you think about all the people Raul Castro has killed it's astonishing to see him standing next to the pope.
- Maureen Mullarkey has a wonderful essay on the work of a Chinese photographer following China's Catholics. When the day comes I hope American Catholics will be as brave and as faithful.
- One thing I've noticed after years of reading Catholic blogs is that parent bloggers have toned down giving out embarrassing personal details about their teen-aged and young adult children. This is very good. Nobody, but especially HR departments and co-workers need to know about your daughter's reproductive cycle or the drug problem your son used to have.
- Pornography is a means of controlling masses of people. If you're besotted with smut whether it's print photos, on the Internet or in badly written "romance" books, you're too stupefied to pay attention to what's really going on around you. Popular culture is part of this. The people who are obsessed with celebrities are useless when it comes time to actually think.
- "You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large."
Thomas Sowell (author, economist and one of my heroes since I was a girl in high school) -
Hilary White wrote this back in 2007 and I still think about it occasionally even after all this time.
- My uncle is back on the ventilator. He's awake, interested in people in his room and is trying to talk but my mother and I have come to the conclusion that he's never going to fully recover.
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