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Brendan Hodge has a good analysis at The Pillar examining diocesan annual fundraising appeals from across the US over the past five years to see if a link is discernible between bad news for the Church in the media and people’s giving. Whenever... [Continue Reading]
Continuing my annual tradition[1], here’s my review of the past year in our life. We end the year pretty much how we started it with no major changes in our family or my employment. We have no new children nor pregnancies, which is like last... [Continue Reading]
Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine by Maximillian Potter My rating: 5 of 5 stars At the surface Shadows in the Vineyard is a true come story of an extortion plot against the world's greatest... [Continue Reading]
Samuel Adams Beer Company is no stranger to controversy, having participated in a stunt in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York in 2002 that was not just in bad taste and illegal, but also sacriligeous. Now they’ve added unpatriotic to... [Continue Reading]
Here’s an interesting observation: Frank Capra’s movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” provides an excellent basic economics education, as well as a brief primer and introduction to the financial services industry in this... [Continue Reading]
A pro-life college student went undercover to show Planned Parenthood allegedly breaking the law and now the abortionist plans to file a lawsuit against her. Lila Rose is an 18-year-old student journalist at UCLA. She’s editor-in-chief of Live... [Continue Reading]
Speaking of closing parishes, they’re dealing with this on a massive scale on the Gulf Coast. A parish in Pass Christian, Mississippi, is suing the diocese because it won’t rebuild their church. But the implications are more wide... [Continue Reading]
Continuing its drive for more openness and accountability the the Archdiocese of Boston released its audited financial reports yesterday, including for the first time reports on the salaries of top employees and payments to top vendors. All the... [Continue Reading]
A federal bankruptcy judge this week threatened attorneys for the Diocese of San Diego with contempt of court charges for attempting to hide the diocese’s assets during settlement negotiations with sex-abuse victims, but instead ordered an... [Continue Reading]
Rob Quagan, a parishioner of the Latin Mass community in Boston’s Indult parish, Holy Trinity, sends along a note regarding some recently re-discovered treasures of the parish. I had an opportunity to see the contents of Holy Trinity’s... [Continue Reading]