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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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