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Bilked: a Ponzi scheme that took aim at Catholics
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deacon greg kandra
Hot on the heels of the Madoff scandal comes this story about a businessman who allegedly bilked investors out of millions using a similar scheme — and who specifically targeted Catholics: An 82-year-old businessman was charged Thursday with running a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $17 million from a clientele gleaned largely through…
In England, Catholic weddings take the plunge
By
deacon greg kandra
From across The Pond comes this sobering news about the startling drop in Catholic marriages: The number of marriages in Roman Catholic churches in Britain has fallen by a quarter since the start of the decade to just 9,950 last year. This is a 24 per cent fall on the figure for 2000, when there…
See, this is why I’m a dog person
By
deacon greg kandra
This guy set up a camera to record what his cat was doing all night. I can’t help but wonder if the cat now sleeps outside. Do you think Pope Benedict has these problems?
A bitter pill
By
deacon greg kandra
Oops. The inventor of the pill — or, rather, The Pill — now says his famous creation was a mistake: Eighty-five-year-old Carl Djerassi the Austrian chemist who helped invent the contraceptive pill, now says that his co-creation has led to a “demographic catastrophe.” In an article published by the Vatican this week, the head of…
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