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Rockville Centre offers buyouts for 1,500 workers
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jmcgee
You can add my neighbor to the East, the Diocese of Rockville Centre, on Long Island, to the growing list of dioceses facing tough times — and taking some drastic steps to deal with its economic challenges: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre plans to offer buyouts to 1,500 of its 6,000 employees next…
Women’s groups protest pro-life Tebow Super Bowl ad
By
jmcgee
So…are they afraid people might actually decide that life is, after all, you know, a good thing? From Reuters: U.S. women’s groups are urging television broadcaster CBS not to air an ad during next month’s Super Bowl football championship final because they say it has a strident anti-abortion rights message. The plans to air the…
Mac attack: is this the future?
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jmcgee
A doctor, diagnosing the problem of countless Mac addicts tonight, might say: “Take two iTablets and call me in the morning.” Some elf posted this on YouTube last month — is the prophecy below about to be fulfilled? We’ll know soon enough. (Excuse me, while I wipe the drool off my chin…)
Pope John Paul’s “instrument for perfecting himself”
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jmcgee
This has been reported before, but the details revealed today are raising a lot of eyebrows: Pope John Paul II always took penitence seriously, spending entire nights lying with his arms outstretched on the bare floor, fasting before ordaining priests or bishops and flagellating himself, said the promoter of his sainthood cause. Msgr. Slawomir Oder,…
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