Sunday, July 27, 2008

Alleluia!

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"The Congregation for Divine Worship reports 'no little satisfaction in arriving at this juncture.'" And the feeling is m...
Monday, July 21, 2008

What I secretly dread about my children growing up

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Guess it isn't so secret if I post it on the internet. But as my kids grow-up, here are a few things I dread. 1. Pulling a "pair...
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Monday, June 02, 2008

From the goodness of their heart

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I am sure this comes from the goodness of their communist heart. Quake causes China to revise one-child policy The Chengdu Population and Fa...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

And it begins

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Now that I am officially an elected official (albeit at the lowest level possible, precinct committeman) we can say it is all downhill from ...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tightrope

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A poem written by my wife back when our son was going through cancer treatment. Brought back as discussion of Sen. Kennedy's tumor remi...
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Interesting tidbit on money

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As a father of a blind son, I can concur that paper money is difficult for him. He has a little braille device just for labeling bills. Bu...
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Both ways

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The question for Obama, does it work both ways? As Obama tells Tenn.'s GOP: 'Lay off my wife' , will he pull her off the campaig...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Answers to questions nobody thought to ask

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It's one of those things that having kids brings up. I now know why God didn't give mammary glands to the male sex. Picture 5 boys ...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Desiring holiness

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No really. I do desire to be holy. This can only help. Catholics like sex. Go ahead and read it. It is clean. And very good. Just one...

All your aliens are belong to ... God?

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A bit behind the curve on this story, but as one Catholic middle school teacher said, how cool is it to be Catholic? He said he was gonna s...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Leaves in the wind

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So is the faith of many scattered about when a modest breeze scatters them. Autumn Kelly's cavalier conversion article The usual manne...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Affirmation

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For those veterans of the liturgy wars, y'all might enjoy Maureen Martin's latest at Stuff Catholics Like Laypeople like affirmati...

Eloquence

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Right down to the last line. Here is an excerpt on what the Democrats don't understand about the small town "fly over" count...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Followup story

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A follow up story on my little Benedict. A just heard this from my wife and didn't witness it, but ya gotta love cute kid stories. He m...
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

33 Benedicts

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I can't find the article on their website , but we made the print version of the National Catholic Register. By we, of course I mean ou...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

Improving the neighborhood

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Based on my (limited) knowledge of the differences of these two bishops, I would say the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis should get ...
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Saints among us

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Some interesting photos I took at the Falls Park in Post Falls, Idaho. Above is the coat of arms from Herborn Germany. Herborn was the birt...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Best interest

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In reality, it comes down to who has the best of the child at heart. As a general rule, I would say the parents given their investment. O...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I'm still voting

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For Ron Paul. looks like this came from deesillustrations.com.
Saturday, April 26, 2008

A standard

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Kevin O'Brien of the Plain Dealer marvels that we have apparently found a standard , below which we will not stoop to allow. Finally, w...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Quick Q&A

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Stopped at the grocery store and one of the boys noticed an ambulance in the parking lot. He asked what would an ambulance be doing at a gr...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Doing my part

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In honor of Earth Day, I did my part. I drove my SUV out into the forest and idled for a while, providing the trees with a little extra CO2...
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Leadership

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Leadership: The hard way Local product, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin just gave birth to her fifth child. Try that while running a state. B...
Monday, April 21, 2008

Weather news

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The only real bad thing about north Idaho getting snow and freezing temperatures on the 21st of April is that the U-Hauls are out of one way...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Rest in peace

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Please pray for the repose of the soul of my wife's grandmother Mildred. She suffered a massive stroke a week ago and passed away yeste...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Strange happenings

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Last evening is sort of fuzzy, and now I know why . Seems I got a good slap upside the head (courtesy of the Ironic Catholic ) in anticipat...

Obscure Papal Trivia *redux*

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Thought I would trot out this item in honor of our Holy Father's visit. Some little known facts about our Holy Father's likes and di...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Needing support

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My daughter and I have determined there is a great need, a need all good Christians in the Ivory Coast should fill. There is a need for a s...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

A sucker

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I am a sucker for tweaking the looney environmentalists. Cross that with proclaiming the gift of children, and we have a winner here from P...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

We can agree on one thing

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Seems American's can agree on one thing, Bible is America's favorite book: "Finally, they may not agree on candidates, but one...