That’s my philosophy on alcohol, and I’m sticking to it. And it’s what I couldn’t help thinking of when I read this AP story this morning about a growing movement to drop the drinking age back down to 18:
College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are [...]

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My wife was reading through a book last night entitled, “Guiding Your Catholic Preschooler” by Kathy Pierce and Lori Rowland, a book that neither of us can remember purchasing. Suddenly she blurts out, “What?!”
So of course I had to ask.
“Books,” she says, beginning the section. “What is your child looking at and reading about in [...]

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Marketwatch breathtakingly reports “FAMILIES AT RISK IN RECESSION…Women’s Jobs More Vulnerable In A Downturn”
What it doesn’t talk about is just what the hell happened to the family wage. Why is it that no man, unless he’s done very well for himself in rising above the average payscale of the corporate schlub, can provide for his [...]

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At Inside Catholic. Having never seen the sort of vitriol in the comm boxes as I did on Kate Wicker’s piece on breastfeeding in church published last Friday, I felt compelled to respond.
We can have a constructive debate about the best way to nurse with discretion (or where) in Mass, but that’s not what happened.

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Reuters Faithworld blogger Tom Heneghan just commented to let me know that Cardinal Schönborn has been interviewed about the art scandal I posted on earlier this week:
“The Vienna Cathedral Museum has dedicated a special exhibition, for which the museum’s director, Dr Bernhard Böhler, is personally responsible, to the artist Alfred Hrdlicka on the occasion of [...]

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In this story from the Washington Post, it’s the headline that gets me:
“Md. Boy, 12, Kills Man Attacking Mother; Officials Undecided On Filing Charges”
Maybe the Post, which gives an otherwise sympathetic (to the child in question) portrayal of the events is just fishing for controversy. Maybe officials in Maryland really are bound by some foolish law to consider [...]

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As I read through my copy of the Examiner this morning, a familiar theme emerged that began to bother me. The first story, entitled, “Some residents see search for guns as targeting blacks,” dealt with D.C.’s ridiculous new plan to send police door-to-door to perform voluntary gun searches. Apparently the idea is that any guns [...]

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The ongoing controversy surrounding Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, intrigues me. There is, for example, the need to ask how much Wright’s preaching differs from that found in other predominantly Black churches in this country. According to some reports, it’s not at all uncommon:
Many U.S. voters have been shocked by the sentiments expressed by the [...]

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Not to say I told you so, but, I told you so:
Vatican spokesman calls rumors of rehabilitation of Luther groundless
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Rumors that the Vatican is set to rehabilitate Martin Luther, the 16th-century leader of the Protestant Reformation, are groundless, said the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.
News reports [...]

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That was the lead-in this morning from New Oxford Review’s news link. The story itself comes from The London Times, which is running it under the headline, “That Martin Luther? He wasn’t so bad, says Pope“:
Pope Benedict XVI is to rehabilitate Martin Luther, arguing that he did not intend to split Christianity but only to [...]

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