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“It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men”
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jmcgee
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more heartening and hope-filled story for a Monday: the tale of a lawyer who traded in the courtroom for the school room: “Pick your head up, buddy,” Tom Dunn said to Darius Nash, who had fallen asleep during the morning’s reading drills. “Sabrieon, sit down, buddy,” he called to…
The North American martyrs: “We are afflicted in every way”
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jmcgee
Anyone who needs a reminder of the price some missionaries have paid need only read a brief summary of what happened to the North American martyrs, whose feast we celebrate today: The first Jesuit missionaries arrived in Quebec in 1625. Initially, their work was with the French settlers and traders and evangelizing the nearby Indians.…
Wilmington files for bankruptcy
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jmcgee
Days after its retired bishop died, another American diocese has gone Chapter 11: The Catholic diocese [of Wilmington] Delaware has filed for US bankruptcy protection on the eve of a civil trial involving high-profile sex abuse. The move automatically delays the case, the seventh of its kind in the US since a scandal in Boston…
Worth a thousand words
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jmcgee
The Archbishop of New York bumps into one of his flock. Would you like fries with that? H/T to Mayor McCheese, a.k.a. Rocco.
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