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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Our Brave Pastor
From Devman the Moderator: For those joining us from Democrat blogs or forums, welcome! A woman who is registered at our parish is running for State Representative on the Democrat ticket. She appears to be very misinformed about Church teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic Life, Faith and Reason, Family Life, Masculine Spirituality, Politics
Tagged Catholic Life, Politics, priesthood, pro-life
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Amazing Bread Recipe
This recipe is fabulous. It even turned my coarse wheat flour into moist bread with a wonderfully crusty crust. The recipe. My bread seriously looked like that. And, here’s the video. Aah, the joy of the Dutch oven.
The Wonderful Wonder Mill
I am loving my birthday gift, a Wonder Mill grain grinder. Because of the need to soak grains and flour in order to neutralize their phytic acid, I have done little baking in recent years. It was just too much work to … Continue reading
Sen. Obama Supports Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Right?
Wrong. The National Catholic Register recently interviewed a young Hispanic woman who is attending a Catholic college and asked her about how she was thinking of voting. “I like to be holistic in my approach to life issues….Crisis pregnancy centers … Continue reading
The Elder Zosima, Cardinal Ratzinger, and Barack Obama
Bear with me as I, a layman, attempt to synthesize threads of thought from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (TBK) and from Cardinal Ratzinger and apply them to our modern culture (in the United States in particular). Elder Zosima is a … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Reason, Family Life, Politics
Tagged Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky, Obama, Pope Benedict, Zosima
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Salt of the Earth
Katie and I are both reading Salt of the Earth, an interview with then-Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict. He answers questions from his boyhood to being enlisted in the Hitler Youth to becoming a priest, professor, and his role in … Continue reading
Election Novena, Day II
Come on, everybody. Please pray with us for Our Lady of Victory to obtain a miracle from Jesus in this election. So much hangs in the balance with this election. The next president will likely appoint two or three new … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic Life, Faith and Reason, Family Life, Politics, Saints and Angels
Tagged election, election novena, Politics
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Our Lady of Victory Novena, Day I
This will take you half an hour, but you know it’s worth it. Our Lord fasted and prayed for 40 days in the desert. Let’s join him for nine days as we pray together for the election of the right … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic Life, Faith and Reason, Family Life, Saints and Angels
Tagged election, novena, pro-life
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Another Double Standard
Sen. Obama’s campaign is apparently up in arms over the recent interview Sen. Biden did with a Florida news station, where–shock of all shocks–the news woman actually asked him tough questions. They’ve ended all interviews with this station, and I … Continue reading
Protest Against the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Dear readers, Please join me in protesting against the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s (CCHD) support of ACORN, the supposedly non-partisan organization which the CCHD has funded with $7.3 million over the past 10 years, and which was used this … Continue reading
