[Hi, everyone! Rae Stabosz has been a friend for probably twenty years or so, and is one of my heroes in the cause of life, educating the public and offering practical help to women in need. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to help her share the word about this project. Join in! –Richard]
Dear Catholics, Big Damn Heroes, and Other White Hats of the Blogosphere,
How would you like to participate in a stunt that, if it comes off, will REALLY piss the heck out of the
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LOL. The headline has it right. Seen on Slashdot:
Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2’s Album On Their Devices
Apple may have succeeded at breaking two records at once with the free release of U2’s latest album, titled Songs of Innocence, via iTunes. But now, it looks like it’s also on track to become one of the worst music publicity stunts of all time.
Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhones automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their
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Cardinal Woelki of Berlin (now transferred to Cologne) has been under fire for his favorable comments on respecting same-sex couples. Personally, I wish he’d be more careful about his comments, but they don’t seem to be as liberal as his critics suggest.
Here’s my casual translation of comments made in an August 2012 interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.
The reporter gets into sensitive territory by suggesting that the cardinal has his own “Woelki method”: keeping Catholic teaching untouched while giving practical signs that anything is possible.
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The La Salette Shrine in Enfield, New Hampshire is apparently going to be closing at some time in 2015, 87 years after they took over from the Shakers. 
So says an announcement from the Missionaries of La Salette, recently received at the Shrine and reported in the local press.
I can’t say this is a surprise. This isn’t the first La Salette apostolate in New England to close, and
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